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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida establishes center at UF to improve health of Florida’s citizens

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has established a $3.5 million endowment at the University of Florida to open the BCBSF Center for Health Care Access, Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes. The new center will be housed in the colleges of Nursing and Public Health and Health Professions and will work to significantly improve the health of Florida’s citizens.

Filed under Campus, Awards & Honors, Announcements on Friday, January 26, 2007.

UF receives $100,000 for women’s leadership

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The legacy of a federal law enforcement trailblazer is helping cultivate leadership among University of Florida female students.

Filed under Campus, Awards & Honors on Tuesday, January 23, 2007.

University of Florida receives record $30 million gift

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A graduate of the first class of the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration’s master’s of business administration program in 1948 is remembering the roots of his success by giving $30 million to graduate business programs.

Filed under Campus, Awards & Honors, Announcements on Friday, January 19, 2007.

$1.5 million gift creates endowment for addiction medicine research at University of Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A gift of $1.5 million from Donald and Irene Dizney of Windermere, Fla., for the University of Florida’s College of Medicine’s department of psychiatry to establish the Donald R. Dizney Chair in Addiction Medicine was announced today at UF’s annual Addiction and Psychiatry Advisory Board meeting held in Hobe Sound, Fla.

Filed under Campus, Awards & Honors on Wednesday, January 10, 2007.