UWF looks to draw new recruits
(Pensacola News Journal © 09/30/2008)
In hopes of attracting more students, the University of West Florida has launched a public awareness campaign, using its Web site, billboards, TV advertisements and a presidential media tour to spread its message, "Creating Great Futures." The $100,000 campaign runs through Dec. 13 and includes three TV commercials, print advertisements, 12 billboards located in Santa Rosa and Escambia counties…

Infrastructure: Growing Stronger and Greener
(Florida Trend © 09/30/2008)
Florida’s business infrastructure is not only growing, it’s poised to become greener, too. In June 2008, Gov. Charlie Crist, a long-time advocate of green initiatives and alternative fuels, put his signature on Florida’s most progressive energy bill to date, which includes new energy-efficient building codes, renewable energy standards and a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Citigroup takes over Wachovia, becomes Florida's top bank
(St. Petersburg Times © 09/30/2008)
TAMPA — For a buck a share, Florida got a new No. 1 banker. Wachovia Corp. toppled from its spot as the state's largest bank Monday, the latest casualty of the global financial crisis as it agreed to be sold to Citigroup Inc. in a fire sale arranged by federal regulators. The ownership upheaval is one of several recent quakes that alter the landscape of retail banking nationwide and in Florida...

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UWF looks to draw new recruits
(Pensacola News Journal © 09/30/2008)
In hopes of attracting more students, the University of West Florida has launched a public awareness campaign, using its Web site, billboards, TV advertisements and a presidential media tour to spread its message, "Creating Great Futures." The $100,000 campaign runs through Dec. 13 and includes three TV commercials, print advertisements, 12 billboards located in Santa Rosa and Escambia counties…

Bicycle-sharing program considered for UF campus
(Gainesville Sun © 09/30/2008)
Colleges across the country are implementing bicycle-sharing programs to limit traffic congestion, help the environment, and decrease fuel and parking costs. Bicycle-sharing is alive and well on the campuses of Emory University, Duke University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Could the University of Florida be next? The programs typically allow students with a valid identificati...

Sharkskin Technology Inhibits Germ Growth
(Florida Trend © 09/30/2008)
Sharks are one of the few slow-moving marine creatures on which algae and other microorganisms don’t thrive. Researchers believed that sharkskin’s chemical makeup kept organisms from growing on it. But Anthony Brennan, a professor in the University of Florida’s Materials Science and Engineering Department, thought something else might be behind the skin’s ability to thwart microbes.

Metro feeding students' stomachs as well as minds
(Denver Post © 09/30/2008)
Becoming a "starving college student" has long been accepted as a potential side effect of higher education. But at Metropolitan State College of Denver, the potential for students to be genuinely hungry and underfed is a real concern that is being addressed with the creation of an on-campus food bank. Located in Room 145A at Sigi's Pool Hall in the Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria campus...

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Education: Striving for Excellence
(Florida Trend © 09/30/2008)
Not only is Florida a great place to live and work, it’s an increasingly excellent place to learn. Consider this: » The 2008 Quality Counts report — a national comparison of state education systems — put Florida’s public school system among the nation’s top 15. In K-12 Student Achievement, Florida was No. 7, based in part on outstanding student participation and performance in Advanced Placemen...

Students injured in truck-bus collision
(Lake City Reporter © 09/30/2008)
A school bus carrying 10 Columbia County high and middle school students was rear-ended by a pickup Monday morning, critically injuring the woman driving the truck and three children on the bus. Rachel Kaeck Griffis, 25, of Olustee, had to be extricated from the mangled truck and taken by helicopter to a Gainesville hospital with her injuries, while the children on the bus where taken to Shands...

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Treating Hearts, Heads
(Tampa Tribune © 09/30/2008)
DALLAS - Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday. Depression is about three times more common in heart attack survivors and those hospitalized with heart problems than the general population, according to the recommendations published in the journal Circulation.

Violations cited at nursing homes across the nation
(Sarasota Herald-Tribune © 09/30/2008)
WASHINGTON - More than 90 percent of nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year, and for-profit homes were more likely to have problems than other types of nursing homes, federal investigators say in a report issued Monday. About 17 percent of nursing homes had deficiencies that caused "actual harm or immediate jeopardy" to patients, said...

Everglades project a river of red tape
(Sarasota Herald-Tribune © 09/30/2008)
WEST PALM BEACH - A multibillion-dollar effort to restore the Everglades has made little progress amid funding shortfalls, bureaucratic red tape and disagreements, according to a congressionally mandated report that warns the vast wetland is in peril. The National Research Council, in findings Monday, warned that degradation of the Everglades could become irreversible if action is not ...

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Global Trade: Easy Reach
(Florida Trend © 09/30/2008)
Florida is one of the fastest growing states in the nation and one of the strongest economies in the developed world. With 19 major commercial airports, 14 deepwater ports and plenty of roads and rails, Florida is the true gateway to the Western Hemisphere. Complementing its transportation connections is a telecommunications network that is difficult to best.