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City Manager Anthony Lyons announced the creation of the position of Executive Chief of Staff for the Office of the City Manager and the immediate appointment of Interim Administrative Services Director Betty Baker to the position. As Executive Chief of Staff, Baker will assume responsibility for the day to day operations of the Office of...

Discussions are currently in the works for the potential addition of an amphitheater to Gainesville’s Depot Park. Sarah Vidal-Finn, the director of the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), said the infrastructure for an amphitheater is there and has always been a part of the park’s original master plan. “If you go to the park there’s...

When we exercise, a cascade of benefits occurs, but researchers don’t know exactly what happens in the body to cause those benefits. Now, two teams at the University of Florida have received a total of approximately $11.6 million out of a $170 million push from the National Institutes of Health to study the molecular changes...

Todd E. Golde, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally-known expert in the scientific understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, has been appointed executive director of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida. His appointment will be effective as of December 1. Golde, currently a professor of neuroscience and director of UF’s Center...

Job sharing is loosely defined as a flexible work arrangement option in which two (or possibly more) employees share a single job. The number of U.S. employers offering job sharing as an option peaked in the early 2000’s, when more than 25% of companies reported offering it as a flexible work option for employees in...

After a whirlwind thirty-day, $1 million renovation, the Gainesville Health & Fitness Women’s Center held it’s grand reopening and more than 500 attendees got a sneak peek into the newly transformed GHFWomen, the ultra-modern fitness center and the only center in Gainesville exclusively for women. Guests toured the 14,000 square foot, completely renovated facility in...

The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Advanced Manufacturing Council kicked off its second annual Manufacturing Month with facility tours for Alachua County middle school and high school students. More than 200 local students visited 16 manufacturing facilities to learn about the many things #madeinGNV! Regional manufacturers providing tours included Fracture, Sandvik, Phalanx Defense Systems, Exactech,...

Mérieux NutriSciences, a leading international network of accredited food testing laboratories, announced today that it will begin relocation plans to move its food testing facility from Southwest Gainesville to a 22,700 square foot location one mile east of Downtown Gainesville, close to the University of Florida campus. The new location, slated to open in April 2017,...

Nanotherapeutics, Inc., a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), recently announced that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded the company a contract for advanced biologics manufacturing services as part of a multiple award IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity) pool. The contract has a...

University of Florida Health celebrated the opening of its newest freestanding emergency room, the UF Health Emergency Center – Kanapaha, Monday, September 26th. The new facility will  provide access to emergency care for residents of southwest Gainesville. The facility expands emergency care at UF Health to four sites, including the UF Health Shands E.R. on...