Photo Credit: JOE BURBANK, ORLANDO SENTINEL When the Burnham Institute for Medical Research celebrates its official dedication today with the first building to open at Lake Nona’s emerging medical city, there will be plenty of speeches and tours highlighting its robotics, laser microscope system and other cutting-edge technology in the $85 million facility. But the [...]
Jewish National Fund will honor four community leaders at an award dinner in Orlando at its annual dinner on Thursday, Dec. 3. Rabbi Rudolph and Rose Adler will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Deborah C. German, dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Central Florida, and Rasesh Thakkar, senior [...]
Source: Orlando Sentinel The glass-clad Burnham Institute for Medical Research shimmers in the sunlight, which pours in through banks of windows and a giant atrium that illuminates the building’s interior. It is a fitting image for an institution that has served as a beacon in the development of Orlando’s life-sciences hub. When Burnham is officially [...]
Source: Orlando Sentinel Metro Conference East Championship – Boys golf At North Shore; Par 72 Team scores: 1. Timber Creek 292, 2. Winter Park 312, 3. Cypress Creek 354, 4. Boone 358, 5. University 368, 6. Freedom 409, 7. Lake Nona 444, 8. East River 461, 9. Colonial NTS Individuals: 1. Keanu Kia (TC) 68, [...]
Source: Around Osceola The Osceola County School District is now using Twitter to keep parents, students and the public informed of the latest news from the district. Future “tweets” will include emergency notifications, School Board meeting notices and events, information on new academic programs and services, and more. This new communications vehicle will supplement the [...]
Source: Florida Trend The three-story Burnham Institute building stands out as a shiny, landscaped oasis amid 600 dusty acres in southeast Orlando that have been scraped naked by bulldozers and smoothed with 10 million square yards of fill dirt. The first of what ultimately will number 300 Burnham scientists and support staff have settled in [...]
Orlando’s defense training industry has established a task-force working group to help bring high-tech training technologies to the region’s budding Medical City complex, officials said Tuesday. The new collaboration unit – known in tech lingo as a Special Interest Group – will include experts from the military training industry, academia and healthcare, according to the [...]
