OVERVIEW With fewer than nine months to go until the U.K. begins its formal process of leaving the European Union, politicians, business leaders and workers are gearing up for considerable change. Time is running short, but there is very little detail about how the two economic powers will work alongside one another after the divorce. …
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The University of Central Florida received a record $183 million in research funding for 2018. It’s a 23 percent increase from last year and a 37 percent increase from 2015.
OVERVIEW The nature of terrorism has shifted in recent years, away from attacks on high value infrastructure, such as buildings, and more toward attacks likely to cause mass casualties. With that new focus, terrorists could be turning their sights on areas that attract large groups of people. A recent Europol report, for example, noted that …
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OVERVIEW Retirement used to mean years of leisure. However, with increased life expectancy, defined contribution schemes with varying investment returns, lack of coverage in traditional pension schemes and underfunded pension and retirement plans, retirement stability is an unknown for many. While pensioners may look to retirement as a well-deserved period of relaxation after years of …
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UCF launched two new colleges and a new interdisciplinary school today that will enhance opportunities for academic excellence in the new Academic Health Sciences Center in Lake Nona and the UCF Downtown campus in Orlando.
On a computer screen, the enemy is a misshapen neon-colored blob — a metastatic cell that’s spreading cancer to the lungs, brain and liver. Thanks to a donation from a Winter Park cancer patient’s family, UCF College of Medicine researchers now have machines that can isolate, photograph and count these cancer cells from a single …
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OVERVIEW Over the past few years, the idea of what broader role a business should play in society has undergone a substantial change. Gone is the view, summed up in 1970 by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, that the only social responsibility of companies was to increase profits. Cut to today, and there are a …
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OVERVIEW Research firm Forrester’s “Global Business Technographics Security Survey, 2016” found that 49 percent of decision-makers interviewed had experienced at least one cyber breach during the past 12 months. Of these respondents, 55 percent had suffered an internal incident involving an employee or a third-party business partner. The survey also ranked top external cyber attack …
A couple of computer scientists are getting ready to take the DNA testing technique that made Ancestry.com family trees possible to a whole new level, which may give doctors a powerful new tool against hereditary diseases such as breast cancer, diabetes and autism.
A College of Medicine researcher has earned a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to understand how Lyme disease is able to escape the body’s immune system.
