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University of Florida Health leaders have cut the ribbon on a new $36 million, 72,000-square-foot facility that will consolidate numerous practices around Gainesville in one location to better serve an estimated 70,000 patients each year. UF Health Physicians practices and services within the new building include the primary care services of internal medicine and family...

Imagine a restaurant that serves close to 8,000 breakfast and more than 16,000 lunch meals per day with the pickiest of eaters whose nutritional needs must be carefully balanced. While a restaurant like that may not exist, that is the job of the Alachua County Public Schools Food and Nutrition Services where countywide approximately 265...

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 enrolled the first patient of the second cohort in the company’s Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of an investigational AAV-based gene therapy for the treatment of...

Back and neck care for residents of Gainesville, the Southeast and beyond takes a significant step forward with the launch of the UF Health Comprehensive Spine Center. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the center unites spine, neck and back pain experts from several UF College of Medicine departments under one roof, including neurosurgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, physical...

The Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention has announced the Sweet 16 for the 9th Annual Cade Prize. The Cade Prize serves to identify, recognize, and celebrate inventive minds and innovation in the state of Florida. Since its launch in 2010, the Cade Prize competition has drawn applications from hundreds of creative thinkers and cutting-edge...

I would like to share a true story about one my students and how our English Language Arts (ELA) eLearning system greatly improved her quality of life. Little 8-year-old Samantha has severe health related problems and was struggling to just stay in school. She had been in and out of the hospital several times for...

As a lifelong learner, I have always loved school and embraced new opportunities to increase my knowledge on a variety of subjects. When I was young, my mother was a preschool teacher and she and my father read to my sister and me daily. Unfortunately, the opportunities I had growing up and the support I...

Fire Station #1, located at 525 South Main Street has moved across SW 5th Avenue from its previous home. Built to meet the best response time, the facility has state of the art computer dispatching and station alerting equipment, and the tried-and-true brass fire pole that quickly delivers firefighters from the second floor dorms or...

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has announced that public radio station WUFT-FM is one of five finalists for the prestigious 2018 NAB Marconi Radio Awards in the non-commercial station-of-the-year category. WUFT-FM, operated by the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is the local NPR affiliate in the Gainesville-Ocala, Florida market, serving a...

As any Harry Potter fan knows, his invisibility cloak enabled Harry to wander around Hogwarts undetected, which was a very cool thing. Invisibility in a classroom, however, can be problematic, causing underrepresented students to slip between the cracks. Imagine you come from a family where college and career are never part of the dialogue; you...