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Spring 2020 Outstanding Graduates
The King O’Neal Scholar Award recognizes undergraduate students who graduate with a 4.0 GPA. The award is a USF Alumni Association initiative and was created in honor of charter USF graduates Lucas King and Evelyn O’Neal. Students receive a certificate and a medallion of the University seal that honor their achievement.
July 28, 2020Computer
Improving Instruction With Coevolutionary Algorithms
Writing exams and creating exercises that can facilitate and assess student learning is a task that educators can sometimes find to be daunting.
July 21, 2020Computer
Noise Exposure May Cause Even More Hearing Loss Than Doctors Thought
Study attributes age-related hearing loss to hair cells -- the same sense organs that are damaged by loud noises.
July 20, 2020Medical
NIH Grant Funds New Optical Biosensor Technology
The two-year National Institutes of Health project researches how near-infrared light propagation and optical analysis can be used to measure blood flow in the brain. Investigators are Ashwin Parthasarathy, assistant professor in the University of South Florida Department of Electrical Engineering and Ann Eddins, professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders and co-director of that department’s Auditory & Speech Sciences Laboratory.
July 15, 2020Medical
New Grant Uses Ai To Enhance Remote Instruction
Using online remote instruction to extend education beyond school campuses has been growing steadily since the turn of the 21st Century and recently has been increasingly deployed as a response to the COVID-19 global pandemic that has made classrooms risky places to be.
July 8, 2020Computer
Engineers Defy A Stereotype With Music
University of South Florida, USF College of Engineering, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research, Robert Bishop, Robert Bertini, Kristin Larsson, David Fink, Veronica Jo, Dave Snider, Jason Jackman, William Lee
May 26, 2020Civil Environmental
Jeffrey Cunningham Awarded AEESP Award For Outstanding Contribution To Environmental Engineering And Science Education
USF Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Jeffrey Cunningham, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2020 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Award for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Engineering & Science Education. This award is given annually to recognize excellence in teaching scholarship and/or professional society educational initiatives.
April 16, 2020Civil Environmental
Fashioning Wearable Technology By Spinning Nanofibers
The ability to turn raw materials like cotton or wool into usable fabrics received a boost when power looms replaced spinning wheels and the textile industry could produce rolls of carpeting and racks of fashionwear on a massive scale.
March 26, 2020Electrical
Research Of USF Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Featured In Sustainability Nature, Could Guide Hydropower Development In The Amazon
USF Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Mauricio Arias, Ph.D., has spent the last decade conducting research into the effects of dams built on some of the most biodiverse rivers in the world.
March 25, 2020Civil Environmental
Bullish Impacts At The Sub-Nanoscale
USF Mechanical Engineering assistant professor Michael Cai Wang was recently awarded an NSF CAREER Award and plans to use it to support his work in advancing nanoscale manufacturing.
March 25, 2020Mechanical
Environmental Engineering Award For On-Site Wastewater Project
olving the problem of environmental pollution from domestic wastewater sources like septic tanks is the focus of a University of South Florida civil and environmental engineering research project that has won a prestigious award from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES).
March 17, 2020Civil Environmental
Five Women In Engineering Win 2020 USF Golden Bull Awards
Presented by the USF Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, the award is one of USF’s highest honors and is given to 20 undergraduate and graduate students who exemplify exceptional leadership and service to USF. Five of this year's awardees are women of all degree levels in the College of Engineering.
February 27, 2020Biological, Civil Environmental, Computer