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The University of Florida’s Office of Professional and Workforce Development, Warrington College of Business, and Office of the Chief Diversity Officer have announced the 4th Annual Inspiring Women Leaders (IWL) Virtual Conference for March 8-9, 2021. Growing Together is the theme for IWL 2021. This phrase represents unity, openness, and making connections, while also focusing...

United Way of North Central Florida’s (UWNCFL) Board of Directors has appointed Amber Miller, Senior Director of Business & Community Partnerships, to serve as the organization’s interim President & CEO. She succeeds Dr. Mona Gil de Gibaja who resigned on July 24. The organization also welcomes Patrick Dodds as the new Director for the Continuum...

Rusty Thompson of The Master’s Lawn Care has been serving the people of Gainesville for 16 years.  Thompson was raised on a farm in Melrose. He always assumed he would follow his family’s footsteps and go into real estate, but when his father passed away his junior year of high school, his career plans changed....

Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: AGTC), a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases, has announced next steps in the clinical development of the Company’s potential treatment of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) caused by mutations in the RPGR gene following receipt of written feedback...

Over the past 10 years, research awards to the university have increased 45% from $619 million in 2011. University of Florida faculty earned a record $900.7 million in research funding in fiscal year 2020, despite many activities being paused for more than two months by the pandemic. The total is a 16% increase over last...

The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on education has prompted concern and debate among educators, students and parents as school districts nationwide wrestle over whether to reopen in the coming weeks and how to safely do so. For more than 15 years, two University of Florida Health experts — Lindsay A. Thompson, M.D. and Erik W. Black,...

Tyler King of Swamp City, a CBD and art gallery lounge, opened his business to provide Gainesville with a peaceful space where like-minded individuals come together and expand on creative conceptions.  King is a Gainesville native and grew up on Newnans Lake. His passion for cannabis started in the seventh grade when he decided to...

As concerns grow about the rising incidence of diabetes in children and teenagers nationwide, a team of UF Health researchers is developing a quicker, more accurate and cost-effective way to track affected youths in Florida by leveraging electronic health records in a statewide database. With a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the Centers for Disease...

University of Florida Health has unveiled at The Oaks Mall the region’s premier surgical center for eye and ear, nose and throat patients, a landmark project for Florida’s top-rated health system that is a culmination of years of planning to expand these practices and bring comprehensive and innovative care to the heart of the community....

A man who battled back from COVID-19 only to face a life-threatening crisis when his lungs began to fail has become the first person in the Southeast to receive a double-lung transplant after beating the coronavirus, thanks to the nationally ranked lung transplant team at UF Health Shands Hospital. The patient, who is in his...