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Looking for a new business opportunity? The University of Florida Office of Technology Licensing is ready to play matchmaker for companies interested in latching onto up-and-coming research and patents to help commercialize and take new ideas to market. Here’s just a few of licenses up for grabs: Software and Hardware with High-Precision Indoor Navigation Capabilities...

Stay in the loop without feeling like you’re chained to your desk with these travel-friendly applications. By Melanie Ling What’s on your agenda this season? Conferences? Seminars? Family travel? As much as we’d all like to “get away from it all,” let’s face it: We live in a time in which technology seems limitless. Sadly,...

By Caitlyn Finnegan The only veterinary college in the state, and one of just 28 in the nation, the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine boasts some of the most advanced animal treatments and services in the world. People from across the Southeast—and even as far as Alaska—bring their pets to undergo treatments here...

By Caitlyn Finnegan When Shands Healthcare opened its offices for Shands Family Medical at Main in June of 2012, it was faced with a major problem: the building wasn’t quite finished yet. Built on a former used car sales lot located at 1707 N. Main St., the facility’s purpose was to help fill a void...

By Caitlyn Finnegan Envision Alachua task force members, land-use planners and Plum Creek are one step closer to a cohesive 50-year vision for the future use of the timber company’s 65,000 acres of land spanning from north central to eastern Alachua County. During the latest long-term planning meeting on Thursday night, all 31 members of...

Woodturning artist Abe Sloan waited 70 years to develop a passion for making usable works of art from raw wood. By Jing Jin Wood artist Abe Sloan didn’t find his artistic side until he retired in his sixties. Always attracted by the beauty of natural wooden objects, Sloan chose woodturning as his craft of choice....

By: Jackie Knabel The performance appraisal is intended to assess an employee’s job performance and increase productivity. It establishes a means of feedback for the employee in relation to the manager’s and the company’s expectations, and provides justification for decisions regarding pay raises, promotions, transfers and terminations. Performance appraisals can also serve as supporting evidence...

New congressman vows to help constituents, fight unnecessary regulation. By Chris Eversole In November, Ted Yoho defeated Cliff Stearns in the Republican primary election and was elected to represent the thirteen-county Third Congressional District, which includes Alachua County, in the House of Representatives. Stearns had held the seat since 1988. A veterinarian, Yoho sees himself...

By expanding his existing limousine business and acquiring an existing company, Sander Kaplan has found continued success on the roads with A Candies Coachworks, Inc.   By Chris Eversole Sander Kaplan’s success in the private bus business in North Central Florida is an example of luck being “when preparation meets opportunity.” That was true when...

How and why your company should have integrated marketing communications. By: Kevin Coulson “None of us are as strong as all of us.” I know that’s not really how the saying goes, but on the topic of integrated marketing communications, that’s how it is. Definitions for integrated marketing communication vary, but let’s go with the...