MindTree to bring 400 high-tech jobs to the Gainesville area
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — MindTree Limited, a global IT and product engineering company, has selected Gainesville as the site for its United States expansion, bringing 400 new jobs over the next five years...
View ArticleUF study: Nature-based tourism often benefits local environment, economy
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When nature lovers book vacations in the great outdoors, they want their dollars to help preserve the places they visit, and a University of Florida study suggests that often...
View ArticleUF/IFAS creates math-based model to show how citrus greening spreads within tree
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have created a mathematical model that shows how citrus greening is transmitted within an infected tree – an important step toward helping...
View ArticleUF Tech Connect program awarded grant for starting technology companies
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida is the only university in the state and among only 10 universities in the region to receive a federal five-year grant this month to promote the formation...
View ArticleFast-growing startup graduates from Florida Innovation Hub at UF, moves to...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shadow Health Inc., a virtual education and training company based on University of Florida computer-programming technology, will graduate from the Florida Innovation Hub at UF at...
View ArticleUF research funding hits $644.4 million in 2012, surpassing non-stimulus record
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Research awards to University of Florida faculty totaled $644.4 million in 2012, a $25 million increase over 2011. The 4 percent overall increase for the fiscal year that ended June...
View ArticleUF forms task force to address Apalachicola Bay oyster fishery collapse
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Responding to the oyster fishery collapse in Apalachicola Bay, experts with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and Florida Sea Grant will join...
View ArticleBuyers may not understand risks in coastal purchases, new UF study shows
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Living along a Florida beach sounds like a dream, but it can bring nightmarish worries, including severe weather, erosion and regulations limiting how the land is used. A new study...
View ArticleInnovation Hub reports 85 jobs and $7.2 million in private investment in 10...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Innovation Hub at UF, a business super incubator located halfway between the University of Florida campus and downtown Gainesville, created 85 jobs and secured $7.2...
View ArticleNew program empowers women in tech startups
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The hot new field of technology startups faces a distressing problem: Women are so underrepresented in these companies’ leadership ranks that less than 10 percent of venture-backed...
View ArticleTunnel technology could help Florida blueberry growers, UF/IFAS study suggests
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Protecting Florida’s $80 million blueberry crop from freeze damage is always a wintertime challenge, but a University of Florida study shows that structures called high tunnels...
View ArticleNew Innovation Hub program assists hopeful entrepreneurs
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Innovation Hub at UF has launched “The Hatchery,” a new incubator program to help aspiring entrepreneurs fine-tune concepts for technology-based businesses and turn...
View ArticleNew UF campus at Lake Nona enhances medical, economic impact in region, nation
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida research and education center brings to the Orlando area vital research on new therapies and cures, increased opportunities for participation in clinical...
View ArticleUniversity of Florida moves up in national rankings for research spending
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new report from the National Science Foundation shows the University of Florida jumped from 14th to 12th in a national ranking of research and development spending at the top 30...
View ArticleUF researcher exploring plant preservation method that could help endangered...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida scientist is researching a method to freeze and preserve orchid seeds, and besides aiding producers, it might also give endangered plants a better chance at...
View ArticleUF/IFAS expert helps solve 80-year mystery, as team identifies fungus killing...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An 80-year search for a tree killer has ended, says a University of Florida forest pathologist who helped identify the fungus that virtually wiped out the Florida Torreya and fears...
View ArticleUF connects to Internet2 at 100 Gbps, expanding computer power 10-fold
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida has activated an ultra-high-speed connection to the Internet2 Innovation Platform, expanding computing power 10-fold and offering a computing network found...
View ArticleTo help homeowners, industry personnel, UF/IFAS posts videos on turfgrass...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Researchers with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences recently completed the state’s largest-ever study of landscape turfgrass and fertilizer use,...
View ArticleFlorida Agbioscience industries growing, helping region’s economy, new report...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Agbioscience boomed in Florida between 2000 and 2010, with related research and development expenditures in the Sunshine State growing 134 percent during that time, according to a...
View ArticleUF incubator takes international honor
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator took top honors worldwide this week when it was named the 2013 Incubator of the Year by the National Business...
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