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Florida Blue invests in USF's coronavirus tracking efforts
Florida Blue has donated $100,000 and partnered with the University of South Florida to aid the school's efforts to track the novel coronavirus (Tampa Bay Business Journal \ paywall).
November 12, 2020Health, Innovation, Research
Florida Blue Supports USF Epidemiologist’s Innovative Efforts to Track COVID-19
USF’s College of Public Health is awarded $100,000 by Florida Blue to support Professor Edwin Michael’s research to build a better tool for fighting the pandemic.
November 9, 2020Health, Innovation, Research
Virtual characters created at USF to teach emergent bilingual students English
A new research-based app developed at USF will soon be accessible to K-12 students and teachers in an effort to bolster a more multilingual society (USF Newsroom).
November 9, 2020Research
Research reveals strategy to create Coronavirus drugs to inhibit virus’s entry and replication
A new study offers insight into designing antiviral drugs against COVID-19. The study, led by researchers at USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, was published in Science Advances (Tunis Daily News).
New research traces the origins of trench fever
First observed among British Expeditionary Forces in 1915, trench fever sickened an estimated 500,000 soldiers during World War I. Since then, the disease has become synonymous with the battlefield. But now, new research from an international team of scientists has uncovered evidence challenging this long-held belief (USF Newsroom).
USF Invention Competition Founder Receives First Patent
Before she was a USF College of Nursing alumna, inventor Anna Hopen was the co-founder of the USF Young Innovator Competition (USFRI Newsroom).
November 3, 2020Innovation
BioFlorida Recognizes Florida's Contribution to Fight COVID-19
Annual Conference Spotlights Life Sciences Growth and Propels Collaboration. The 2020 COVID-19 Innovation Award was presented to Dr. Yogi Goswami, the world-renowned Director of the Clean Energy Research Center at the University of South Florida, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, who has published twenty-two books and over 400 peer-reviewed scientific and technical papers on topics including indoor air quality (PR Newswire).
October 30, 2020Honors and Awards, Innovation, Research
Backed by the Vinik family, USF researchers use 3D mapping tech for Tampa's historic Jackson House preservation
University of South Florida researchers are using 3D technology to map out the historic Jackson Rooming House in Tampa, after receiving a $1 million grant from the Vinik Family Foundation (TampaBayInno).
October 27, 2020Innovation, Research
USF researchers release social media findings from statewide 2020 presidential election survey
Researchers with the University of South Florida have released the results from a statewide survey that measures Floridians’ use of Facebook to engage with the presidential election, as well as their attitudes regarding the political information they encounter online (USF Newsroom).
October 27, 2020Research
High-profile homicide trial to showcase evidence recreated at USF
The digital reconstructions of three human skulls created at the University of South Florida are being used as evidence in a high-profile murder trial in California (USF Newsroom).
October 26, 2020Research
40 Under 40: Morgan Holmes, director, Office of Corporate Partnerships, University of South Florida
In 2017, Morgan Holmes was hired to help launch USF’s Office of Corporate Partnerships. In October 2019, it launched the USF-Jabil Innovation Institute with an $800,000 philanthropic gift, a $200,000 research budget, a physical Jabil presence in the USF Research Park, and the Jabil Speaker Series with the Tampa Bay Technology Incubator at USF (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).
October 23, 2020Honors and Awards, Research
EPA administrator announces launch of USF-led project to address local revitalization efforts through workforce development
The USF Center for Brownfields Research & Redevelopment is launching a program designed to clean up contaminated neighborhoods while creating jobs for residents. In collaboration with the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, the Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training program will provide comprehensive training to East Tampa residents for full-time careers in environmental and brownfields remediation (USF Newsroom).
October 22, 2020Research
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