Gatorade

University of Florida celebrates 50 years of Gatorade

Published on September 29, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Staff Reports

The research question posed to University of Florida professor J. Robert Cade, M.D., and his research fellows in 1965 was a simple one: Why were so many Gator football players getting sick in the unrelenting Florida heat? “That question changed our lives,” Cade would later tell reporters, because the answer led him and his team to develop an innovative product that forever changed athletic performance, launched a new industry, helped people suffering from dehydration and sparked a legacy of innovation…

Keep Reading

Dale Brill: The potential of Florida’s innovation system

Published on June 29, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Guest Author

Florida’s future depends on innovation. Innovation is needed to address threats, including rising sea levels, the effect of nitrogen cycles, ocean acidification and more. If solutions to these challenges are to find their genesis in Florida, a commitment to innovation is necessary to fully transition state and local economies that compete for investment capital, skilled workforce and overlapping targeted industries. Innovation suffers from many myths, including the one depicting the lone scientist able to radically change the world with a…

Keep Reading

You might be interested in

You might be interested in