May 2, 2024
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UCF's future plans for College of Nursing help address nursing shortage
The University of Central Florida is planning to build a new home for its College of Nursing adjacent to the UCF College of Medicine on the school's 50-acre health sciences campus in Lake Nona.
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Published on 11/28/2022
Award-winning filmmaker Todd Thompson produces movies he hopes will inspire, enlighten audiences
Todd Thompson knew at a young age that he wanted to make films. He caught the bug when he was about 8, when his father took him to see Star Wars. After that, he started experimenting with his grandfather's 8mm camera and making his own “homemade, independent” films using the money he earned cutting grass to buy film. “It would take me months because it was expensive for a little kid back then,” recalls Thompson.
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Published on 11/25/2022
Ybor City's Gas Worx project plans to develop homes, retail and office space on former site of Peoples Gas
For the last several years, much of downtown Tampa's redevelopment focus has been on Water Street, the $3.5-billion, 70-acre mixed-use project from Strategic Property Partners, a partnership between Tampa's Jeff Vinik and Bill Gates' Cascade Investment.
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Published on 11/23/2022
Felecia Hatcher
When her high school guidance counselor said college wasn't in the picture because of academic reasons, Felecia Hatcher applied for and received more than $100,000 in scholarships, prompting her mother's friends, her church and high schools to ask her to help other students. So she created a company to do just that.
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Published on 11/22/2022
FSU's nursing dean Jing Wang addresses salaries, the shortage and more
Jing Wang became the dean of the College of Nursing at Florida State University last year. She is a board member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and recently was named one of 10 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine.
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Published on 11/22/2022
Michelle Abbs
Michelle Abbs' leadership journey started 16 years ago in a fifth-grade Miami classroom.
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Published on 11/17/2022
UNF's Brooks College of Health boosts hands-on training with new simulation center
Nursing students at the University of North Florida Brooks College of Health have a new simulation center for hands-on training.
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Published on 11/16/2022
New program developed to help Florida job seekers find new careers based on location
CareerSource North Central Florida in Gainesville has been testing a program designed to help job seekers more easily find out location-specific information about jobs, salaries and demand.
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Published on 11/16/2022
Cristie Besu
Nurse and sports nutritionist Cristie Besu started her Eat Me Guilt Free line of high-protein, low-carb baked goods in her kitchen a decade ago when her clients would confess to cheating on their diets. Besu, a Miami native, realized there was a business opportunity in making healthier treats.
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Published on 11/16/2022
Redevelopment after the Dozier School for Boys
A former classroom building at the Dozier School for Boys, an institution where imprisoned children once endured desperate conditions, soon will become a place where young adults with autism will learn workplace and life skills. A former gymnasium is envisioned as a civic center; the old cafeteria as a museum.
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Published on 11/15/2022
Accelerated nursing programs in Florida help get new nurses into practice faster
While nursing wasn't her first career, Proebe Ybanez always felt a pull toward the profession. As a teenager growing up in the Philippines, she recalls feeling helpless as she watched her great-aunt suffer a massive seizure.
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Published on 11/14/2022
Pet product company and Shark Tank winner SwiftPaws on track to hit $1.5 million this year
Brevard County native Meghan Wolfgram graduated from high school with an associate's degree through a dual enrollment program and was been accepted into the University of Florida's veterinary program. “I was going to go into large-animal equine sciences.”
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Published on 11/14/2022
Lissette Calderon
During a break in the closing for a $57.5-million construction loan for her latest residential tower, Miami's Lissette Calderon reflects on her past. In what other city, she asks, could a first-generation Cuban- American woman break ground on her first high-rise at age 28?
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Published on 11/10/2022
Jane Poynter
In 1991, Jane Poynter, then 29 years old, volunteered along with seven others to spend two years living inside an airtight dome in the Arizona desert. The purpose of the privately funded science project, known as Biosphere 2, was to create a ground-based test bed for a space settlement — an enclosed habitat where humans could live for extended periods by farming their own food and recycling their air, water and waste.
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Published on 11/9/2022
Florida Icon: Jim Strickland
I'm 67 years old, and at age 7, I wanted to be what I am now. I always just wanted to be on a horse.
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Published on 11/8/2022
Jennifer Rominiecki
Jennifer Rominiecki knew she was in for a challenge when she became CEO of Sarasota's Selby Gardens seven years ago — but maybe not quite as big of a challenge as it turned out.
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Published on 11/8/2022
Black and Hispanic women running for office are shaking up Florida's political landscape
Ashley Gantt already has two careers under her belt: Teacher and attorney. Now she's embarking on a third: State legislator.
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Published on 11/7/2022
Miami unveils collection of nearly 5,000 NFTs designed by 56 Miami artists
Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez announced a partnership with Time magazine, Mastercard and Salesforce to launch an NFT initiative for the city to drive revenue to local businesses and non-profits.
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Published on 10/31/2022
Constance Collins
Constance Collins is $6.1 million into a $20-million campaign to build a “children's village” across from the Lotus House women's shelter she founded in Overtown in Miami. The challenge of raising another $14 million doesn't seem to weigh on her.
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Published on 10/31/2022
Tallahassee-based Applied Fiber's high-performance cables are vital component of NASA's James Webb Telescope
Tallahassee-based Applied Fiber's high-performance cables are a key component of NASA's James Webb Telescope. The company supplied Northrop Grumman, a NASA contractor, with nearly 200 cable assemblies used in the sunshields that protect the lens from extreme temperatures. The company began work with Northrop Grumman on the project more than 13 years ago.
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Published on 10/31/2022
Orlando International Airport debuts its new $2.75-billion,15-gate terminal
Orlando International Airport debuted its new $2.75-billion, 15-gate terminal, which features a slew of technological touches. Among the highlights are:
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Published on 10/31/2022
SMG Delivering Data gathers infrastructure data for utilities
For 12 years, Hadley Doyle-González and her pilot husband, Jorge, ran a business based in Palm Beach County towing airplane banners. That led them to the idea of using their flight skills and manned and unmanned aircraft — she's a drone pilot — to gather infrastructure data for utilities.
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Published on 10/31/2022
Easing other land-use regulations is a growing trend in Florida
Only Gainesville in Florida contemplates a city-wide elimination of the single-family zoning category, but a trend toward loosening other land-use regulations is growing. At the state level, the Legislature in 2020 mandated that affordable housing can be built in zoning categories including single-family, commercial and industrial.
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Published on 10/31/2022
AI-based program makes easy work of legal contract reviews
Reviewing contracts for legal purposes takes a lot of repetitive attention to detail. The use of artificial intelligence at the law firm Foley & Lardner makes that type of review easier, according to Jacksonville-based partner Chanley Howell.
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Published on 10/27/2022
Affordable housing around Florida
Soaring housing costs are a hazard to Florida's economic growth, leading communities that want to sustain their workforce to respond with new initiatives. Luxury developers to non-profit agencies are stepping up with solutions — both in multifamily properties and individual homes — to address the statewide housing crunch.
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Published on 10/25/2022
