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USF Awarded $7.5 Million to Establish New National University Transportation Research Initiative
The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that the University of South Florida will receive a $7.5 million grant to establish a national university transportation center aimed at advancing research and education programs that address the nation’s critical transportation challenges.
June 5, 2019Research and Innovation
International Organization Names USF a Finalist for Innovation and Economic Prosperity Award
The University of South Florida is side by side with some of the top universities in the United States, including two members of the prestigious Association of American Universities, as finalists for a national economic development award.
June 4, 2019Research and Innovation, University News
Marine Biologist to Explore Gulf's Uncharted Deep Sea
The deep sea and the marine life the Gulf of Mexico contains is still largely mysterious. University of South Florida St. Petersburg Marine Biology Professor Heather Judkins and a team of researchers will spend the next two and a half weeks aboard a NOAA Ocean Exploration research cruise to reveal a bit of that mystery and explore never-before-reached areas of the Gulf.
June 4, 2019Research and Innovation
New Global University Patent Ranking Again Places USF in World’s Top Institutions
USF ranks in the Top 10 of American public universities, Top 20 of world universities in securing new U.S. utility patents.
June 4, 2019Research and Innovation, University News
Concussion is a Leading Cause of Injury for Children in Recreational Sports
Elementary school-aged children who participate in recreational sports are at greater risk of concussion than most other sports-related injuries. A new study published in PLOS ONE focused on children 5-11 years old who play recreational football, soccer and baseball/softball.
June 3, 2019Research and Innovation
‘Suture Zone’ to Blame for Mysterious 2014 Earthquake Felt Across Florida
New research from University of South Florida seismologists has uncovered the unexpected source of a 2014 earthquake felt across southern Florida – an anomaly for a state that historically has almost no seismic activity.
May 28, 2019Research and Innovation
USF President Makes Historic Gift, Donating $20 Million to Establish the Judy Genshaft Honors College
The University of South Florida System has flourished under President Judy Genshaft. Now, she continues her transformational leadership – this time through a historic gift. President Genshaft and her husband, Steve Greenbaum, have donated $20 million to the USF Foundation. This marks one of the largest gifts ever made to USF.
May 22, 2019University News
NASA Selects USF Researcher for the First Female-Dominated Crew for Underwater Mission to Simulate Space Exploration
Csilla Ari D’Agostino, PhD, research assistant professor of psychology at the University of South Florida (USF), was selected to join NASA’s next underwater mission to study what happens when one lives underwater for an extended period of time.
May 20, 2019Research and Innovation
USF Sarasota-Manatee Students Help Pasco County Libraries to Choose New Computer System
A group of business students from the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee helped select a computer system for Pasco County’s public libraries.
May 17, 2019University News
KnowBe4 Donates $1.75 Million to Anti-Phishing Research and to Train Students for a Widening Job Market
A prominent cybersecurity training company in Clearwater will donate $1.75 million in cash and software to the USF Foundation to teach and train Muma College of Business students to serve on the front lines in the growing battle with cyber threats.
May 15, 2019University News
Latest Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and the Dark Web Revealed at the Florida Business Analytics Forum
When you are unlucky enough to find out a stranger has already received your tax refund, or that you purchased a new living room suite in California when you’ve never been to California, your first thought is which restaurant server or convenience store clerk had your credit card last night.
May 15, 2019University News
Defending Earth from Asteroids
In the desert of Arizona, robotic telescopes search the sky for asteroids on a collision course for Earth. It’s an effort that could one day avoid a catastrophe on a planetary scale, and a project that a University of South Florida graduate student is helping to strengthen.
May 14, 2019Research and Innovation