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Relationship Between USF And UVI Expand Access To Engineering Education For Diverse Students And Develops Inclusive Stem Workforce
A unique partnership between the University of South Florida College of Engineering and the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) is demonstrating the importance of partnerships with minority-serving institutions in fostering a more diverse and inclusive engineering workforce.
November 13, 2020Alumni & Friends
USF Engineering Graduates At Two-Year Colleges Are Leading Efforts To Address National Workforce Needs
Expanding and preparing the domestic technical STEM workforce is essential to maintaining our country’s economic competitiveness, driving innovation, and advancing national prosperity.
November 13, 2020Biological
Yogi Goswami And Molekule Awarded BioFlorida’s Inaugural COVID-19 Innovation Award
BioFlorida is an organization that connects a network of emerging and established life science companies, universities, research institutions, hospitals, medical centers, and more. This year, BioFlorida announced an award titled the COVID-19 Innovation Award and recognizes a Florida company that has made significant advances in the fight against COVID-19. The first winner of this inaugural award is none other than Distinguished University Professor and director of the USF Clean Energy Research Center, Dr. Yogi Goswami and his company Molekule.
November 9, 2020Biological
Mauricio Arias Awarded McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship
USF Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Mauricio Arias (center) stands in the Hillsborough River with five USF civil and environmental engineering PhD students in his Watershed Sustainability Lab in the spring of 2019.
October 28, 2020Civil Environmental
Christopher Passaglia Receives NIH Grant Optic Nerve Research
Department of Medical Engineering Professor Chris Passaglia was recently sub-awarded a $282,335 R01 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences within the National Institutes of Health to examine the effectiveness of different drug cocktails at promoting axon regeneration in the crushed rat optic nerve.
October 8, 2020Medical
Collaborating at the Crossroads of COVID-19 for a Healthy, Just and Equitable Society
A total of 35 professors and experts, mainly from environmental engineering and science fields will present on six different topics related to COVID-19 from October 16 to November 20 as part of a virtual conference “Converging COVID-19, environment, health, and equity.”
September 29, 2020Medical
A Collaborative Approach To Harmful Algal Blooms In Florida’s Largest Freshwater Lake
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded a team of engineers and geoscientists at USF a $1 million grant to research new methods for preventing and controlling harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Lake Okeechobee.
September 29, 2020Civil Environmental
The Balter Family Is Bullish On Supporting Engineering Student Success
Supporting student success at the College of Engineering is an ongoing effort of Balter’s that began with contributing to fund scholarships on an annual basis. Working with the College’s development staff, Balter and other family members established an endowment to fund the Balter Family Scholarship that financially supports full-time junior and senior undergraduates who are majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering, in perpetuity.
September 24, 2020Civil Environmental
A Patent For Humanity
Created by a team of USF engineers led by Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Daniel Yeh, human wastewater converter NEWgenerator will be recognized as a winner of the 2020 Patents for Humanity award by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
August 28, 2020Civil Environmental
2019-20 College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Awardees Announced
The College of Engineering Dean’s Office and the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Educators are proud to announce two recipients of the 2019-20 College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award.
August 24, 2020Biological, Mechanical
Air Purifier Technology Created By Distinguished University Professor Yogi Goswami Gets FDA Approval
This April, the Molekule Air Pro RX was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration as a Class II Medical Device. The device uses the same technology as Molekule’s consumer air purifier models — technology created by USF Clean Energy Research Center Director, chief scientist and co-founder of Molekule, and Distinguished University Professor, Yogi Goswami, PhD.
July 29, 2020Biological
Engineering Faculty Leading USF’s COVID-19 Response Efforts
This April and May, nine projects led by USF engineering professors were funded during two rounds of the USF COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants program created by the USF Pandemic Response Research Network — an interdisciplinary initiative organized by university leadership and faculty researchers to quickly respond to current and future pandemics.
July 29, 2020Biological, Civil Environmental, Computer, Medical