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A new five-year, $7.15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will support the University of Florida’s continued study of MRI to track Duchenne muscular dystrophy disease progression. Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects about one of every 3,500 to 5,000 boys born each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...

Small businesses in the healthcare, travel, biotech, and education industries represented in October 21networking and pitch event Spots still available to attend one-time, free event during Gainesville Entrepreneur Month (GEM) GAINESVILLE — Cox Business has announced the finalists of Get Started Gainesville (#GetStartedGNV) taking placeon Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The winner of the live pitch competition...

If all goes as planned, doing business with the city of Gainesville will get a bit easier in the near future, according to reports from the city’s special committee on economic development. There soon may be a fully functioning new department in the city, the Department of Doing. The Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee on Economic...

High School students learn entrepreneurship and satisfy community service requirements. The University of Florida is pleased to announce our 9th Annual Pre-College Summer Program for High School Students: Young Entrepreneurs for Leadership & Sustainability: Summer Program. This program is sponsored by UF’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, in partnership with the Warrington College of Business...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Heavener Hall, the Warrington College of Business Administration’s new home for undergraduate programs and activities, was officially dedicated during a ceremony Friday afternoon on the business campus. Among the distinguished guests in attendance were University of Florida President Bernie Machen, Warrington Dean John Kraft and James W. “Bill” Heavener (BSBA ’70), whose lead...

University of Florida among those receiving $7 million to empower women farmers The University of Florida is part of a consortium led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) that has been awarded $7 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase global food security and support effective rural development....

More Powerful Wireless Charging System Using “Hotspots” This wireless power transmission system provides power to multiple devices within a volume of space, potentially as large as a room. The age of battery-powered electronics has created a huge demand for convenient recharging technologies. For many applications, traditional recharging via wire connections or physical contact can be...

Cornell University Provost W. Kent Fuchs (pronounced “Fox”) has been unanimously chosen by the Board of Trustees to become the next UF president. Fuchs will be UF’s 12th president-elect. Fuchs’ appointment will begin Jan. 1, 2015. “I will devote for the next 10 years all of my energies, all of my experience, all of my...

The University of Florida College of Journalism has announced a lineup of acclaimed speakers, titled The Innovators Series, that will be free and open to the public. “The Innovators Series will bring six leaders in the information industries to the University of Florida over the next two years whose inventive outlooks have propelled them to the leading...

UF recently announced that the O’Dome is getting an overhaul, and the effects of the planned $45 million worth of scheduled renovations could impact the local business community. The construction will shut the Stephen C. O’Connell Center down for a period of about nine months, said O’Connell Center director Lynda Reinhart. The renovations are slated...