OVERVIEW If it seems like health care costs are increasing faster than prices for other goods and services, it’s because they are. In the U.S., for example, the average price a large employer health plan paid for a laparoscopic appendectomy increased 136 percent from 2003 to 2016. The cost of a full knee replacement climbed 74 …
Poor Health Habits Are Fueling Higher Employer Medical Costs Worldwide Read More »
Reach and impact are at the core of PILOT — a program that gives promising biomedical sciences students opportunities to teach and do original research — and has earned a College of Medicine faculty member university recognition for his innovation.
Julie Brisset, an associate scientist in planetary sciences at UCF’s Florida Space Institute, was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from NASA to study levitating dust clouds in microgravity.
OVERVIEW Faced with increasing volatility, organizations may find organic growth harder to achieve – merging with or acquiring another company is one way to expand. This past year has seen little to no slowdown in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, which hit record levels in the first half of 2018. From companies evaluating inorganic growth …
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For many college graduates, finding a job within their field can seem just as daunting as earning a degree. But that task can be even more difficult for people with disabilities, considering last year’s unemployment rate for the group (9.2 percent) was more than twice the rate of those with no disabilities (4.2 percent), according …
UCF Physics Alum Highlights the Importance of Workplace Accessibility Read More »
The University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, which opened Central Florida’s first wet lab incubator in May, has been honored with an Editor’s Choice Award by the University Economic Development Association, as part of the association’s 2018 Awards of Excellence program.
The University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, which opened Central Florida’s first wet lab incubator in May, has been honored with an Editor’s Choice Award by the University Economic Development Association, as part of the association’s 2018 Awards of Excellence program.
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is celebrating its 55th birthday this month with a host of special activities that demonstrate the impact the work conducted at the National Science Foundation-funded facility has on our daily lives.
On the day she helped break ground for a joint-venture hospital between HCA and the University of Central Florida, Wendy Brandon, the hospital’s new CEO, announced a $3 million gift to hire a renowned cancer scientist to lead UCF’s cancer efforts.
OVERVIEW Whether it’s a data breach, ransomware, or phishing emails, businesses are facing a constantly evolving range of cyber threats. And with cyber crime costing up to $600 billion a year – attacks such as last year’s NotPetya and WannaCry remind us that the digital world is moving into the physical world with business interruption, …
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