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The Healthy Watersheds Consortium Grant Program’s fourth year of awards further accelerates the pace of proactive watershed protection in the U.S., benefitting drinking water supplies, freshwater systems, and floodplains. The program supports working forest and ranchland protection, innovative finance in collaboration with water utilities, and capacity for local and regional watershed groups. New themes this...

Two University of Florida College of Nursing researchers have been awarded a five-year $2.57 million grant for a project that will use registered nurses’ observation notes to prevent death and injury of hospitalized older adults who are at a higher risk for hospital-acquired falls and hospital-induced delirium. Through the grant from the National Institute on...

Alachua County’s Citizens Academy program has been recognized with an Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo). The County was honored for its submission entitled “Engaging Citizens through an Immersive Citizens Academy” in the Civic Education and Public Information category. The award honors innovative, effective county government programs that strengthen services for residents....

O2B Kids, a leading provider of early education services for children in the Southeast U.S. and a Spire Capital portfolio company, consummated its acquisition of Brookside Academy. Brookside Academy, founded in 1999, has two locations in Alpharetta and Johns Creek, suburbs of Atlanta, GA. It provides services such as infant and toddler care, preschool, after-school...

Together with United Way of North Central Florida, Dr. Bill Martin, Dr. Charlotte Gleeson-Hill and Martin Kids Dental welcome community members and their families to a Grand Opening celebrating the expansion of their newest location in Jonesville, FL. The carnival-themed open house will feature free food and activities for all ages including face painting, bounce...

More than 18,000 family medicine patients visited the University of Florida Health Shands emergency rooms from 2015 to 2017. A new study sheds light on the most frequent users: 943 patients who had six or more visits a year. Knowing who uses ERs the most is an important first step in making emergency care more...

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications  announced that the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information has been awarded $125,000 from the Hearst Foundations for the Center’s “Data Deserts” initiative. The initiative, which will be named the Hearst Data Deserts Project, is intended to improve the quality of civic data by spotlighting the...

The Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention has  announced these Final Four Cade Prize Competition Finalists:  Anchor Biologics (Gainesville, FL), Capacitech Energy (Orlando, FL), ExtremeComms Lab (Fort Lauderdale, FL), and Path Optical Systems, Inc. (Orlando, FL). The Cade Prize, established in 2010, has become Florida’s pre-eminent invention and innovation competition.  It rewards entrepreneurs, inventors, researchers,...

ClaimFound Inc., a Gainesville-based internet company providing free software to help individuals and businesses find, process, and monitor unclaimed property, has officially launched its platform in Florida and is looking to aid in the return of hundreds of millions of dollars to Florida citizens. Unclaimed property encompasses a wide array of assets, from old utility...

The American Lung Association’s 2019 “State of the Air” report found several Florida cities earned mixed rankings for the nation’s most widespread air pollutants. The annual air quality “report card” tracks Americans’ exposure to unhealthful levels of ozone or particle pollution, both of which can be deadly. Destin, Crestview, Fort Walton Beach, Palm Bay, Melbourne,...