April 16, 2024

Northwest

FSU alum Joshua Esnard won a $300K partnership deal with Shark Tank investor

INNOVATION A Cut Above Florida State University alumnus Joshua Esnard, inventor of The Cut Buddy, a hair and beard grooming device, recently reached a $300,000 investment partnership deal from ABC’s... Read more »
Published on 4/13/2022

The state of banking

Stephen A. LeMay is an associate professor at the University of West Florida's College of Business. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in finance, marketing, banking and computer literacy and supply chain logistics. He spoke to FLORIDA TREND about the state's banking and finance industries... Read more »
Published on 4/13/2022

Innovation Park of Tallahassee has named two winners of cash grants

Innovation Park of Tallahassee has named two winners of cash grants under its TechGrant Competition program. Manser Edbrooke Technology, which won first place and $15,000, develops prototypes that give customers the ability to explore and refine concepts for products and demonstrate features before paying to fully develop the product... Read more »
Published on 3/15/2022

Infrastructure: Critical strategies Florida can implement as it grows

Florida is projected to gain 2.5 million new residents by 2030. Here's what that means for schools, roads, homes and other infrastructure needs Read more »
Published on 3/8/2022

Researchers at FSU and Florida A&M develop a better design for a low-gravity space simulator

Existing space flight simulators that use free-fall to generate near-zero gravity are restricted by size and typically have short low-gravity durations — from only several seconds to a few minutes — making them unsuitable for experiments that require long observation times... Read more »
Published on 2/23/2022

A snapshot of Florida

Industries across the state are reporting robust activity — some are surpassing pre-pandemic levels of growth. Read the full regional reports - Miami • Southeast • Southwest • Central •... Read more »
Published on 1/17/2022

Northwest Florida's economic forecast for 2022

“In general, hotels in urban centers are not coming back anytime soon. Everybody is looking at 2024 for some kind of sustained recovery..." Read more »
Published on 1/17/2022

Hospitals Around the State

Miami Hospital City Beds Top Executive Jackson Memorial Hospital Miami 1,550 Carlos Migoya Baptist Hospital of Miami Miami 838 Brian E. Keeley Mount Sinai Medical Center Miami Beach 672 Gino... Read more »
Published on 12/8/2021

The Hsu Innovation Institute and NWF have opened an aviation training center at Bob Sikes Airport

The facility's campus, which includes a large hangar and access to an 8,000-foot runway, will offer students several career training... Read more »
Published on 11/30/2021

AMIkids Panama City Marine Institute certified more than 50 teenagers in underwater robotics

Triumph Gulf Coast, which oversees money from the 2010 Deep Horizon oil spill settlement, is funding the AMIkids remotely operated vehicle (ROV) program... Read more »
Published on 10/27/2021

Chaos Audio's Stratus gives guitar players sound options

Chaos Audio has rolled out Stratus, its latest invention described as an “intelligent, all-in-one stomp box” for electric guitar players. Read more »
Published on 9/28/2021

Yamaha Marine execs believe a Pensacola technical college program can serve as a national model

The program, at George Stone Technical College in Pensacola, has an almost 100% graduation rate and job placement of students. Read more »
Published on 8/31/2021

FAMU-FSU University researcher received $1.4-million federal grant to study how bacteria can remove carcinogens from groundwater

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences grant calls for Youneng Tang to collaborate with researchers at Texas Tech University. Read more »
Published on 6/29/2021

EMILY devices transport flotation devices to struggling swimmers

Panama City Beach lifeguards will get some extra help this summer. Read more »
Published on 5/26/2021

FSU research team turns plant material into larger capacity batteries

By incorporating lignin — an organic compound in the cell walls of plants that makes them rigid — the team has created a type of electrolyte compound, says professor Hoyong Chung. Read more »
Published on 4/28/2021

FAMU-FSU assistant professor receives grant to study robots

FAMU-FSU assistant professor Christian Hubicki received $750,000 from the Toyota Research Institute... Read more »
Published on 3/29/2021

SunDial helps businesses optimize power consumption

The technology also allows users to monitor lifetime energy savings and emission reductions as well as create simulations for... Read more »
Published on 3/1/2021

Tyndall Air Force Base deploying robotic security on base

Tyndall Air Force Base is deploying four-legged robots around the base's perimeter as a security measure. Read more »
Published on 1/27/2021

Northwest Florida's economic outlook for 2021

Regional business leaders talk about the outlook for the year ahead, plus demographics and statistics Read more »
Published on 12/30/2020

Skyborne and Gulf Coast State College team up for disaster technology center

Franklin County-based Skyborne Technologies has begun testing an aircraft that acts as a “mothership” that can deploy multiple drones from a single location. Read more »
Published on 11/25/2020

Escambia High School engineering students create an award-winning rover

An Escambia High School team of engineering students recently won NASA's prestigious Neil Armstrong Best Design Award for their construction of a rover. Read more »
Published on 10/28/2020

Two Bay County IB students developed device that turns texts to braille

Two Bay County International Baccalaureate students have developed a hand-held device that converts text messages into readable braille. Read more »
Published on 9/25/2020

Pensacola approves plans to build 29,000-sq.-ft. food hall

Belmont Hall has room for 10 aspiring chefs. Read more »
Published on 8/26/2020

Coflyt creates software for pilots, aircraft owners to manage aircraft paperwork

Eric Hill created the software for Coflyt while a student at Mississippi State University. Read more »
Published on 7/27/2020

President of Tallahassee-based Bascom Communications, Sarah Bascom

Worried that a surcharge could cripple its business, Dosal Tobacco hired more than a dozen Tallahassee lobbyists and Sarah Bascom... Read more »
Published on 7/27/2020

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