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PDF LINK More than 700 students and film industry professionals will come together Friday, March 15 to honor the Student Showcase of Films (SSOF) finalists chosen out of a record-breaking number of entries. Out of nearly 300 

Florida Atlantic University’s College of Business, and presenting sponsor BB&T, recently hosted the 2012 Business Leader of the Year Award annual breakfast at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. This year’s program honored the accomplishments of Jim Robo, president and chief executive officer of NextEra Energy, Inc.
“Jim Robo exemplifies leadership, and we are proud to recognize him as the 2012 Business

AWH Partners, LLC and The Lane Organization LLC jointly announced that the international renowned award-winning Gensler design firm has been selected to lead the architectural, interior design, and brand transformation of the Boca

Royal Palm Beach High School junior, Anastasia Colas was the winner of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience’s 2013 Brain Bee Challenge. Sponsored by the Mary and Robert Pew Public Education Fund, the event took place on February 9 inside the Institute’s new 100,000 sq. ft. research center in Jupiter, and included high school students from Palm Beach and Martin counties. The oral competition is similar to a spelling bee in format and

Florida Atlantic University’s College of Business has received $5,000 from State Farm to provide financial literacy programming for local area educators.

As the tournament roster continues to take shape for the 2013 Allianz Championship, two PGA Champions Tour rookies—Naples resident Rocco Mediate and Australian Steve Elkington—will take on the field as a celebrated roster of golf legends will descend onto The Old Course at Broken Sound Club from February 4th-10th for the seventh consecutive year in Boca Raton. Tournament week is jam-packed with interactive “events within the event” before

Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will present a lecture by Gibor Basri, Ph.D., as part of the 2013 Frontiers in Science public lecture series, titled “NASA’s Hunt for Earth2: Kepler’s Shower of Planets!” The lecture will take place on Friday, Feb. 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, room 126, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.

BELLE GLADE — The Glades region, long an afterthought in Palm Beach County’s business community, is getting new attention from economic developers.
The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County today opened an office in Belle Glade to market the region to manufacturers and distributors.