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In 2022, Dr. Juan C. Cendan was appointed dean of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and senior vice president for Health Affairs for Florida International University and spearheaded the partnership with Baptist Health. He’d been serving as interim dean since 2021. Dr. John A. Rock was the school’s founding dean and served from 2006-2018.
Term President Background and accomplishments First 1965–1978 Dr. Charles N. Millican was the founding president of "Florida Technological University." As such, he chose the university slogan of "Reach for the Stars," helped to design the university's distinctive Pegasus logo, and devised the university's concentric circle design.
Florida Memorial College celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1979 and began a series of expansion projects on the 44-acre (180,000 m 2) campus. In 1993, Albert E. Smith was appointed as the college's tenth president, heralding another period of growth. On July 3, 2006, Karl S. Wright became the eleventh president.
The first university faculty member to become its permanent president was J. Wayne Reitz in 1955, and the first university alumnus to become its president was Stephen C. O'Connell in 1967. The former president of the University of Florida is W. Kent Fuchs. Fuchs replaced Bernard Machen on January 1, 2015. Using the university's counting method ...
Florida Institute of Oceanography. The Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO), located on the campus of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, [1] is an entity of the State University System of Florida that works collaboratively with 32 institutions and agencies from across the state that support marine research.
Stetson University is a private institution located in Central Florida, along the I–4 corridor. Established in 1883 as DeLand Academy, it was later renamed John B. Stetson University in honor of a generous donor. The university's main campus in DeLand spans 175 acres and boasts Florida's oldest collection of education-related buildings ...
Myron Rolle. Myron L. Rolle (born October 30, 1986) is a Bahamian-American neurosurgeon and former football safety. He played college football at Florida State, and was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He attended the Florida State University College of Medicine and is a neurosurgery resident at Harvard ...
The UF College of Medicine - Jacksonville is an active participant in the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) granted to the University of Florida by the National Institutes of Health. A 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m 2) research facility was opened in 2007 on the Jacksonville campus. The opening of the research laboratory facility ...