SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Seinfeld once joked that modern athletes switch jerseys so often that rooting for a team is really just rooting for laundry. I couldn’t help but be reminded of that joke as I watched the Presidents Cup at Harding Park this week. Tiger Woods of the U.S. and Robert Allenby of 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 [...]
In anticipation for the projected new jobs in Lake Nona, and specifically in Medical City, NarcoosseeFL has launched the new Lake Nona Job Board. There’s not much there now, as we launched the site only a few hours ago, but we feel this job board will serve as the first place job seekers and employers [...]
Source: Orlando Sentinel The medical city sprouting in southeast Orlando is behind schedule. So what? The delays mean that the University of Central Florida medical school, UCF’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center of Orlando are about six months to a year off their [...]
Source: Orlando Sentinel Bianca Hernandez enjoyed a good freshman season at Cypress Creek last year, shooting an 80 in the Class 2A, District 8 tournament and becoming the top freshman finisher in the region tournament with an 83. Then she moved to the new school at Lake Nona this year. Varsity the Weekly sat down [...]
From: The Orlando Sentinel Next month, officials will dedicate the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, crown jewel of the medical city emerging in southeast Orlando. Come spring, the new building for the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine will open there, too. Amid the fanfare, what few may realize is that most of the [...]
The Spring 2009 edition of UCF Today headlined the economic impact of the new UCF College of Medicine. They requested more information to let our community know some specifics about the new College and its impact. The new College of Medicine will locate near Lake Nona. If you travel SR 417, you will notice the [...]
If you head over to the UCF Medical School website, you’ll see they’ve added a countdown clock to let you know when classes will start. As of writing this, there are 28 days left. This is a new era for Lake Nona, and the surrounding areas. The UCF Medical School will usher in a strong [...]
Thursday morning, construction crews began the very first stages of building the new, state-of-the-art, 95-bed Nemours Children’s hospital in Lake Nona’s Medical City. Workers began by laying the groundwork, including underground piping and utilities. In addition to healthcare, this project will create jobs and a lot of them. During the construction phase alone, there will [...]
