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The University of Florida Hough Graduate School of Business’s impressive results in career placement and admissions selectivity rates were some of the nation’s best, according to U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools 2017” edition. Among the top 75 full-time programs to appear in U.S. News’s overall rankings, UF MBA was the nation’s only program to rank in the top 10 in admissions...

By Ron Wayne The Cade Museum for Creativity + Invention has narrowed the 16 finalists for the 7th Annual Cade Museum Prize for Innovation to the Final Four. They are: AbleNook — A Tampa startup that developed prefabricated living modules that snap together and are easily assembled, transported and adaptable to diverse terrain. Feynman Nano...

 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The department of neurosurgery became the first named department in the University of Florida College of Medicine’s 60-year history on Saturday, when it was officially named the Lillian S. Wells department of neurosurgery in honor of significant philanthropic support from the Lillian S. Wells Foundation Inc. The Fort Lauderdale-based foundation’s most recent contribution...

University of Florida researchers hope to help farmers hop into the beer business by cultivating hops. Scientists with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences will work with a $158,000 grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumers Services to develop a viable hops crop. Hops, which have a long history of use in...

By Philip N. Kabler, Esq. Bogin, Munns & Munns, P.A. Gainesville office In the last article I outlined the factors a business person typically considers when selecting a form of doing business, namely liability, taxes, and privacy. Here I will outline the outline the details of entrepreneurship – how one starts a business and what...

Some colleges have called for the banning of Yik Yak, a social media application to which users centered around a geographic area can post anonymously. But University of Florida Health researchers have found that the decision to ban the app may be a little hasty. The hyperlocal app has gotten a lot of media attention...

Long-term industry stalwarts InterMed Biomedical, InterMed Ultrasound, InterMed Nuclear Medicine, and InterMed X-Ray have joined forces with premier financial player Wafra Partners, LLC to form The InterMed Group. This restructuring positions The InterMed Group to become the preeminent third-party provider of medical equipment management and service solutions in the U.S., and opens avenues to new...

For the first time, congressional office staff and their constituents can analyze the business patterns of the nation’s 435 congressional districts. These new statistics are available through the U.S. Census Bureau’s updated My Congressional District Web application. Annual County Business Patterns data joins the latest statistics from the American Community Survey to provide the most detailed portrait of America’s congressional districts...

Gainesville Health & Fitness was featured in the February 8th release of Forbes magazine. The issue will highlight the twenty-five best small businesses in America from the last year. Joe Cirulli and his staff of fitness professionals were excited to learn that they’d been selected to be a part of this elite group of private...

The Financial Times listed the internet MBA program at UF Hough Graduate School of Business No. 3 in the world in the publication’s Online MBA 2015 rankings. UF MBA’s internet program was the top-ranked online MBA program in the U.S. “It’s an honor for our internet program to again receive such prominent recognition by The Financial Times,” said Dr. Alex...