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The Earl and Christy Powell University House was filled with laughter, dancing and lively jazz music Monday evening, as guests gathered to celebrate the University of Florida’s recent achievements in the sphere of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The event commemorated UF’s first university-wide diversity and inclusion accolade, the Insight into Diversity magazine 2022 Higher...

The University of Florida’s Training, Research and Environmental Occupations Center (UF TREEO) has been awarded a $75,000 Training & Education Materials Development Grant from the US Department of Labor through the Susan Harwood Training Grant Program.  The grant will be used to develop high-quality, compliant training materials for English and Spanish speaking workers and employers...

Momentum Labs celebrated a construction milestone last week with a topping out ceremony.   A topping out ceremony is a contractors tradition: it coincides with the last structural piece being installed in the new construction of a building. The construction and development teams for Momentum Labs were invited to sign this beam, which will then...

Infotech, a leader in infrastructure construction software solutions, announced it has launched the Appia service and a Construction Data Visualization extension in the Esri ArcGIS Marketplace. With this Esri ArcGIS integration, the Appia service is now a geo-enabled construction administration solution that allows owners to visualize the full story of civil infrastructure projects. In addition,...

The Greater Gainesville Chamber Foundation invites all middle and high school students and their parents/guardians to Career Discoveries Day. This career showcase and exhibition takes place this Saturday, November 5th, from 9 am to noon at Celebration Pointe, 4949 Celebration Pointe Ave, Gainesville, FL 32608. You will get a chance to talk face-to-face with employers...

The City of Gainesville is hosting a Business Matchmaker event with community procurement partners to connect local businesses with area procurement and small business resource representatives. The event will help business owners and managers learn about governmental contracting opportunities and about doing business with participating groups. When: Friday, Oct. 21, 2-5 p.m. Where: Blount Center...

Schoolchildren, medical patients, farmers, seniors, entrepreneurs, parents, consumers and first-generation college students are just some of the people whose lives and livelihoods will be enhanced because of the University of Florida’s eight-year Go Greater campaign, which was celebrated this weekend with two months remaining before its official conclusion. More than 620,000 Gators made contributions totaling...

The University of Florida has announced that the Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation has provided $100 million — the largest gift from an individual donor in university history — to elevate the stature of UF Scripps as one of the world’s leading forces in biomedical research and to advance the leading-edge work of...

Cyclo Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing life-changing medicines through science and innovation for patients and families living with diseases, has announced the commencement of its Phase 2b study of Trappsol® Cyclo™ for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease (AD), targeting the reduction of amyloid beta and tau. The Phase 2b...

The Alachua County Commission meeting on the Lee Property/Hickory Sink Strategic Ecosystem Special Area Study scheduled for Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at 5 p.m. has been postponed. It will be rescheduled for a date to be determined.     Alachua County will announce when the County Commission meeting on this item is rescheduled and will provide...