WGCU News
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The Southwest Florida Music and Education Center in Naples will soon be offering neurodivergent young adults a truly unique, comprehensive music education program to help them pursue careers in the music industry.
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When author, art therapist, and environmental educator Holly Merker learned she had cancer she turned to her lifelong passion for birdwatching as a sort of therapy. Preview the lecture she’s giving at “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society called, “Ornitherapy: How a Deeper Experience with Nature Can Enrich Your Mind, Body, and Soul.”
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For a second time a trio of South Florida environmental agencies are planning to sue the federal Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to designate a 10.5-million-acre safe haven for the endangered Florida bonneted bat. The creature is the largest bat in the state and the rarest one in the nation. The mammal it is at grave risk of being wiped out by a changing planet. “Florida bonneted bats cannot survive the onslaught of sea-level rise, development and pesticide use in South Florida unless their habitat is protected,” Jaclyn Lopez, Florida director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said Monday.
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Learn how reporting to the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System — or VAERS — works, what happens when serious adverse events are reported, and the rates at which serious adverse events are happening following COVID vaccinations.
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The Southwest Florida Music and Education Center in Naples will soon be offering neurodivergent young adults a truly unique, comprehensive music education program to help them pursue careers in the music industry.
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Annabelle Tometich, food writer and critic, outlines 14 restaurants in Southwest Florida that, she says, are doing things right under the most trying circumstances.
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Project SEARCH is a program that helps students with intellectual and developmental disabilities transition from school to work. Hear from two women who make Project SEARCH possible, an a current Project SEARCH intern, and a former intern.
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Mona Awad discusses her brilliant novel ALL'S WELL, about pain, power, and Shakespeare. This conversation took place at the Miami Book Fair.
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New technology being tested by researchers at UF/IFAS to help Florida farmers reduce their costs as much as possible in order to try and stay profitable in the face of what’s called ‘citrus greening.'
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Life has changed for all of us in some ways over the past two years as the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the world. Explore what these times have been like for writers, who generally do their work at home, or in a sort of isolation.