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Justin Dee became involved in the unmanned systems industry after serving in the army for seven years. In 2017, he founded TerraData Unmanned, a company headquartered near Gainesville that seeks to solve some of the most complex unmanned and remote sensing challenges.  Dee grew up in the Illinois-Wisconsin border north of Chicago. After moving to...

With its flagship hospital already ranked the best in Florida, University of Florida Health has earned two more distinctions: It is No. 12 on Forbes’ list of the state’s best places to work and No. 50 in the nation for female workers. The business magazine and website publisher recently issued its rankings of the 100...

Alachua County has announced that the Budget and Fiscal Services Department was recognized with two prestigious awards for their countywide Performance Management Program this year.  The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) has recognized Alachua County with the 2020 Certificate of Excellence in Performance Management. The Certificate of Excellence is awarded to those agencies who attain...

The Alachua County Environmental Protection Advisory Committee (EPAC) is hosting a community conversation on Climate Change in Alachua County. The discussion will focus on helping the community understand how climate change impacts our food, water, and air and what we as citizens can do to protect them. The discussion is scheduled for Friday, November 13,...

Beach Break Salon has been serving the Gainesville community for 10 years while putting customers at the forefront of its foundation. The business prides itself on providing an amiable and laid-back atmosphere for people from all walks of life. Natasha Samuel, the owner of Beach Break Salon, was born and raised in Jacksonville. She moved...

Ology Bioservices Inc. (Ology Bio), a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), was named the 2020 David J. Gury Company of the Year by BioFlorida.  BioFlorida distributes the award annually to a company that has “achieved significant milestones and has contributed to the growth of Florida’s life science industry.” BioFlorida is the voice of...

University of Florida Health has enrolled its first patient in a clinical trial for the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ monoclonal antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19, a therapy that might neutralize the coronavirus and prevent it from infecting cells. UF Health is one of hundreds of medical centers internationally participating in the blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial to...

Colleen G. Koch, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., has been named dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine, becoming the 10th dean and the first woman to hold the appointment in the college’s 64-year history. Koch, who currently serves as a professor and chair of the department of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns...

Boris Kuchuk of My IT Masters serves Gainesville businesses through computer repair and IT support and has led a number of multi-million dollar projects in the computer engineering industry.  Kuchuk was born in the former Soviet Union but was raised in Israel. When Kuchuk was 13, he got his very first computer. He enjoyed the...

A flu vaccination might do more than protect against influenza. It might also shield some people from a severe case of COVID-19 — even though the infection is caused by an entirely different virus. People who received a flu vaccination in the year before testing positive for the novel coronavirus were nearly two-and-a-half times less...