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Hendricks & Partners Associate Partner Hal Warren Earns Second M...

Topix - Business News  Mon, 12/19/2011 - 14:16

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Longtime Central Florida commercial real estate executive Hal Warren, associate partner for the Orlando based Southeast Division of Hendricks & Partners, a multi-family investment banking company, recently earned his second Master's Degree from the University of Central Florida.

Warren's new post-graduate degree - Professional Master of Science in Real Estate in Business Administration - is the inaugural Master of Science in Real Estate program, from the Dr.

P. Phillips School of Real Estate in the College of Business.


 

Greensleeves Releases Geomodule Intelligent Geothermal Loop Mana...

Topix - Business News  Tue, 12/13/2011 - 16:09

Findlay, Ohio / Winter Springs, Fla., - Greensleeves LLC has recently released a GeoModule family of intelligent geothermal loop management products.

Stephen Hamstra, chief technical officer for Greensleeves LLC, with offices in Winter Springs and Findlay Ohio, said the new series of products launched will increase the use of geothermal and make geothermal installation more affordable.

"It was the unique intelligent controls, careful selection of equipment and engineering experience that allowed the breakthrough," Hamstra emphasized.


 

Cenek, headquartered in Medellin, Colombia first Soft Landing co...

Topix - Business News  Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:09

KISSIMMEE, Fla. --- Cenek, a learning content management system firm headquartered in Medellin, Colombia is the first company to join the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program's Soft Landing program.

Pim Van den Bergh, sales manager for Cenek, said the firm specializes in simplifying the training process of large groups of employees geographically dispersed by using its cloud based platform, Cenek 3.0.

The fact that the platform is very user friendly and the results of the training are traceable by the administrator makes it unique in the industry.


 

UCF Business Incubator in St. Cloud to host 'Lunch and Learn' Se...

Topix - Business News  Thu, 08/25/2011 - 09:00

ST. CLOUD, Fla. - The University of Central Florida Business Incubator in St. Cloud will present its next 'Lunch and Learn' seminar Thursday, Sept. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the St.

Cloud Incubator facility, 3201 Budinger Ave., St. Cloud.


 

"Banking with Benefits" is Topic of Seminar July 20 at UCF Busin...

Topix - Business News  Mon, 06/27/2011 - 12:57

ST. CLOUD, Fla., - The University of Central Florida Business Incubator in St. Cloud will present Banking with Benefits, a lunch and learn seminar from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 20 at the UCF Business Incubator located at Stevens Plantation Business Park in St.

Cloud at 3201 Budinger


 

Black Tie Real Estate & Investments adds Veteran Real Estate Spe...

Topix - Business News  Fri, 06/24/2011 - 05:37

Lady Lake, Fla. - Black Tie Real Estate & Investments - a member of the University of Central Florida's Business Incubation Program in Leesburg, recently hired Realtor Jane Paquin as a real estate consultant for The Villages.


 

Collegiate Staffing USA President Speaks Positive Stress Managem...

Topix - Business News  Fri, 04/15/2011 - 07:24

ORLANDO, Fla., -- Mikaela Nix, founder and president of Collegiate Staffing USA based in Orlando, spoke to the We are Wonderful Women Networking Conference recently hosted at the Hilton Hotel in Altamonte Springs; on the topic of "Practicing Safe Stress: How to Handle Stress in the Workplace."


 

City of St. Cloud strikes oil, sort of

Topix - Business News  Tue, 04/05/2011 - 10:13

ORLANDO, Fla., - With gasoline prices rising and U.S. oil imports threatened by Middle East conflicts, the City of St.

Cloud and Team Energy, Inc., an energy recovery company based in St. Cloud, have struck oil - in a manner of speaking.

Team Energy recently earned the competitive bid contract to recover methane gas from St. Cloud's municipal solid waste landfill on 17th Street and convert it to compressed natural gas (CNG), which can power cars and trucks whose engines have been modified.


 

Entrepreneurship Leaders to Strategize on Effectively Decreasing...

Small Business Trends  Thu, 02/17/2011 - 05:00

Washington, D.C. and Orlando, Florida (PRESS RELEASE – February 17, 2011) –130 top entrepreneurship leaders will be convening on February 18 for the first ever Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit, to be held at the University of Central Florida.

They will be discussing how the entrepreneurship education field can be scaled to help decrease global unemployment.


 

University Developing Anti-Sex Game for Pre-Teen Girls

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Tue, 07/27/2010 - 16:08

The University of Central Florida is currently knee deep in $434,000 of federal tax money programming a video game for teenage girls which acclimates them to the pressures of sexual advances in social environments.

Working with UCF’s Institute for Stimulation and Training, Dr.

Anne Norris, statistician and methodologist for the College of Nursing’s Office of Research, hopes to implement her groundbreaking software into local middle schools as an aid in preventing teen pregnancies and encouraging abstinence amongst pubescent young adults.