May 15, 2024
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Florida's new Secretary of the Department of Management Services to oversee state's IT infrastructure
Former U.S. Department of Homeland Security official Pedro Allende has been appointed Florida's new Secretary of the Department of Management Services, which is tasked with overseeing cyber-security for state government and administering tens of millions of dollars in new funding for government cyber-resiliency programs.
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Published on 8/31/2022
Johns Hopkins All Children's president puts hospital's mission in focus
K. Alicia Schulhof, president of Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital St. Petersburg since July 2021, likes to start staff meetings with a “mission moment” — a story that demonstrates “the impact our team members have each and every day on the patients we care for.”
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Published on 8/30/2022
West Palm Beach-based SYN Ventures raises $465 million to invest in cyber-security companies
Jay Leek and Patrick Heim bring impressive resumes to their West Palm Beach-based SYN Ventures, which has raised $465 million in two funds to invest in cyber-security companies.
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Published on 8/30/2022
A New Mission Boosts the Economy
At least 130 Florida companies and an array of university researchers across the state have a role in Artemis.
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Published on 8/25/2022
Space Research
From producing food to controlling dust, long-term missions to the moon and Mars present extraordinary challenges. Florida innovators are working to overcome future obstacles.
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Published on 8/25/2022
The Private Sector
The next giant leap to the moon and beyond will require an array of sophisticated hardware.
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Published on 8/25/2022
Engineer designs first smart cushion with sensors for better wheelchair user experience
Tim Balz initially wasn't a good student in high school. He was told he wouldn't go to college. But he had one teacher who believed in him. That teacher introduced Balz to engineering through robotics, and Balz captained the team in his Plainville, Ind., high school. “Engineers have so much power to change so many lives. I knew then it was the best career I could think of to change the world,” he says.
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Published on 8/25/2022
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers developing tool to predict hurricane debris road blocks
A team of researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is looking to remote-sensing technology to find better ways of predicting where road clogging debris will be most severe following hurricanes.
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Published on 8/25/2022
Tampa entrepreneur creates “sleep pod” to combat employee burnout
By his early 40s, Scott Chester was well into a successful career in IT, having worked for organizations including the U.S. Air Force, Raymond James, Publix and L3 Communications. But Chester found that no matter where he worked, there was always an abundance of energy-sapping stress to deal with, sometimes so much stress that all he really wanted to do was take a nap and recharge.
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Published on 8/23/2022
UF researchers develop tool to predict complications during surgery
Every year, approximately 15 million Americans undergo some sort of surgery, and nearly one-third develop a complication. Each adverse event can add up to $11,000 in health care costs and exact a physical and emotional toll on the patient. But a promising AI tool being developed by researchers at the University of Florida could help doctors better forecast how patients will do before they even go under the knife.
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Published on 8/23/2022
Doctor provides mobile medical care to uninsured children
Laura Chilcutt has always felt a calling to work with vulnerable populations. As a lawyer, she spent years championing the rights of immigrants and human trafficking and domestic violence victims for the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (now Americans for Immigrant Justice) and later at her own practice.
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Published on 8/23/2022
NASA selects two UCF scientists to lead robotic exploration mission to the moon
INNOVATION
Probing a Lunar Mystery
NASA has selected two planetary scientists at the University of Central Florida — Kerri Donaldson Hanna and Adrienne Dove — to lead a 2026 robotic...
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Published on 8/12/2022
Florida Icon: Alicia Cervera
I have done 48 major projects in Brickell. My daughter Veronica says: ‘Mother, when I see the skyline of Miami, I see your name.' Sometimes when I drive on the causeway and I look over at the city, I feel so much joy to see that we've been able to contribute to Miami becoming a global city.
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Published on 8/11/2022
Cyber advancements in Florida
Florida's organized efforts to combat cyber-crime are still less than a decade old. In 2014, the state launched the Florida Center for Cybersecurity to coordinate education and research efforts, recognizing not only the rising tide of online crimes, but a vast shortage of trained professionals to combat cyber-attacks, ransomware, identity theft and manipulation of government systems that control everything from cities' water supply to public coffers. Since then, Florida has built its cyber capabilities, but as in most anti-crime efforts, it doesn't take much for the bad characters to gain an advantage. Here's a snapshot of where cyber-crime fighting in Florida stands.
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Published on 8/10/2022
Chelsea Bear is living her best life
The communications pro is helping brands connect to people with disabilities and enlightening audiences along the way.
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Published on 7/29/2022
Meet some of Florida's top philanthropic donors who've made seven-figure gifts to non-profits
The nation's top 50 donors gave away nearly $28 billion in 2021, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Here are some Floridians who've made seven-figure gifts to nonprofits in the state over the past 18 months.
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Published on 7/27/2022
FAMU's Economic Justice Initiative provides free legal services to minority business owners
With a $110,000 grant from Wells Fargo Bank, Florida A&M University's College of Law is spearheading its Economic Justice Initiative, which will provide free legal services to help minority-owned small-business owners as they launch and grow their enterprises.
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Published on 7/26/2022
MacKenzie Scott's multi-million-dollar gifts benefit numerous Florida universities and non-profit organizations
When Artis Stevens, president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, got a phone call from a representative of MacKenzie Scott earlier this year about a $122.6-million gift to the organization, he started dancing in his kitchen. “My 14-year-old and my 12-year-old girls were in the other room… and they looked at me and screamed up to their mom, ‘Mom, something's wrong with dad,' ” Stevens told NBC's Today Show in an interview in May.
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Published on 7/20/2022
Attorney Mischelle D'Angelone reflects on her childhood and why she does so much pro bono work
Pasco County-based Mischelle D'Angelone, one of 20 lawyers recognized this year by the Florida Bar for service to low-income and disadvantaged clients, points to her own childhood as the reason why she does so much pro bono work, particularly work on behalf of children and families.
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Published on 7/20/2022
Noise litigation attorney Mark Bentley's Beatles passion project debuts at Florida Film Festival
Attorney Mark Bentley of Tampa turned his passion for the Beatles into a documentary that kicked off the Florida Film Festival in Orlando.
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Published on 7/14/2022
How Florida's philanthropy landscape is changing
Mari Kuraishi, president of the Jacksonville-based Jessie Ball duPont Fund, says Floridians often get a bad rap when it comes to charitable giving.
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Published on 7/14/2022
Is Crypto in Florida's philanthropy future?
A growing number of Florida non-profits are accepting donations of digital tokens.
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Published on 7/13/2022
The Florida Bar Association's new president Gary S. Lesser outlines his goals for the next year
The Florida Bar's new president wants more mentoring, awareness and professionalism.
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Published on 7/12/2022
Miami Beach filmmakers Rakontur build on fame after breakout Netflix hit Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami
Miami's ‘teenage celluloid whiz kids' are in their 40s. The state's homegrown iconoclastic filmmakers are busier than ever as they pivot to Florida stories with wider import.
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Published on 7/11/2022
