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Scientists Piece Together Ancient Sea Level Record Via Mallorcan Cave Formations
USF Geosciences Professor Bogdan Onac says findings provide new insight into how high and how fast sea levels can rise.scien
November 1, 2018Research and Innovation
Mind & Machine: Students to Compete in USF's First Brain-Drone Race
The 2019 USF Brain-Drone Race, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 9, will feature teams from across USF as they race drones using brain-power.
October 30, 2018Research and Innovation
Provocative Cat Statuette Forges New USF-Smithsonian Partnership
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is working in collaboration with the University of South Florida Library to digitize and virtually display a famous artifact seldom seen outside museum curation.
October 29, 2018Research and Innovation
New USF Art Exhibit Aims to Help Solve Cold Case Homicides
The theme of the exhibit at the Tampa Bay History Center is missing persons with a focus on violence against women and children.
October 26, 2018Research and Innovation
14 USF Faculty Recognized in 2018 Outstanding Research Achievement Awards
The researchers were celebrated for their outstanding publications, awards and grants recognizing their scholarship and scientific achievements that occurred in the 2017 calendar year.
October 24, 2018Honors and Awards, Research and Innovation
Anthropology, History Professors Win Prestigious Award for Co-Authoring Book about the Nigerian Civil War
A nine-year research project that included more than 100 interviews with survivors and witnesses of a massacre during the Nigerian Civil War is recognized by the world’s major professional society of oral historians.
October 15, 2018Research and Innovation
Two USF Health Nursing Doctoral Students Win Florida Blue Health Innovation Pitch Competition
Their idea to develop a baby-bottle nipple mirroring the natural shape and breast-milk flow rate of the baby’s mother won two USF Health doctoral nursing students the first-place $10,000 prize.
October 15, 2018Honors and Awards, Research and Innovation, USF Health
USF Robotic Glider Mission Helps Pinpoint the Potential Source for Recent Severity of Red Tide
Marine scientists from USF and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) recently deployed an autonomous robotic glider to the northwest of Clearwater Beach and closely monitored it as it traversed along the middle of the continental shelf between Pasco County and Sarasota County.
October 8, 2018Research and Innovation
Five USF Professors Recognized with 2018 Excellence In Innovation Awards
University of South Florida faculty members who have invented new technologies to assist people with disabilities, convert waste to liquid fuel, develop the systems that run robots and augmented reality, and fight cancer with nanotechnology have been named this year’s recipients of the Excellence in Innovation Awards.
September 18, 2018Research and Innovation, University News
USF Criminology Expert Featured in Charles Manson Documentary
Nearly 50 years since Charles Manson formed the Manson Family cult, fascination continues about their murderous crime spree and the evil behind it.
September 18, 2018Research and Innovation
New Results of Deepwater Horizon Research to Protect Marine Life Against Future Oil Spills
USF researchers complete comprehensive study, creating a baseline for the Gulf of Mexico's marine ecosystem.
June 27, 2018Research and Innovation
USF’s Rightpath Research & Innovation Center Receives $1.3 million Grant
Trina D. Spencer, PhD, of the Rightpath Research & Innovation Center at USF has been awarded a 4 year $1,323,166 research grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to build a large database of academic language of K-3 students. The overarching aim of this work is to help reduce the language-based achievement gap in primary grades.
June 20, 2018Research and Innovation