City of Jacksonville and UF to explore possible new graduate campus
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he University of Florida and Jacksonville city leaders recently committed to a partnership to explore creating a new graduate campus in Jacksonville focused on the introduction of innovative programs in medicine, business and engineering.
The potential project would build on UF’s and Jacksonville’s long-standing connections in health care, providing new graduate education programs aimed at supporting the region’s growing workforce needs in biomedical technology and focused on pioneering technology related to simulation, health applications of artificial intelligence, patient quality and safety, health care administration and fintech.
Pictured above, from left to right: Newly appointed UF Trustee Patrick Zalupski, UF President Ben Sasse, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, UF Board of Trustees Chair Mori Hosseini and UF Senior Vice President David Nelson.