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Dr. Licato Wins NSF Award to Study Human Reasoning and AI
Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor Dr. Licato received an National Science Foundation (NSF) award of $150,000 for his project "EAGER: Grounding Natural Language Inference in Cognitive Processes."
May 17, 2023Research
USFSP research lab named Florida’s first repository for human trafficking data
The University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus will be home to the state’s first repository for data on human trafficking, thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis this month.
May 17, 2023Research
USF St. Pete professor heads effort for new statewide human trafficking database
This initiative will be the first database of its kind in Florida, requiring state agencies to provide certain anonymous information about human-trafficking victims. University of South Florida Prof. Joan Reid is spearheading the project. She has been researching the issue for 13 years.
May 16, 2023Research
He’s lived underwater for over 75 days. He thinks others should, too.
Joseph Dituri, a hyperbaric medicine researcher and associate professor at USF, has been living in an underwater pod in Key Largo, Fla., since March 1. He’s exploring whether living underwater is possible through daily tests on his brain, heart, lungs and blood (The Washington Post / paywall).
May 16, 2023Research
76 days and counting underwater, Florida professor breaks world record, for science
Joseph Dituri, a 55-year-old professor at the University of South Florida, broke the world record for longest time living underwater — and he plans to stay put for an extra three weeks.
May 16, 2023Research
USF’s Dr. Deep Sea breaks world record for living underwater
On track to complete a 100-day mission, USF Associate Professor Joseph Dituri has broken the world record for living underwater, previously set at 73 days. While teaching his students online, Dituri, also known as Dr. Deep Sea, is studying how the human body responds to long-term exposure to pressure from an underwater habitat located at Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo where he’s been living since March 1.
May 15, 2023Research
USF professor breaks record for living underwater for 75 days straight — but is aiming for 100 total
A University of South Florida professor, Joseph Dituri, who also goes by the moniker "Dr. Deep Sea," is conducting research underwater, such as daily experiments in physiology to monitor how the human body responds to long-term exposure to extreme pressure.
May 15, 2023Research
USF professor sets record for living underwater
A USF professor broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers.
May 15, 2023Research
Global classroom collaboration with Moldova wins international partnerships award
A global classroom experience that brought together USF students with peers in Moldova to conduct joint research while an international humanitarian crisis was unfolding nearby received the inaugural International Partnerships Award from two political science associations.
May 11, 2023Global Research, Student Research
USF scientist discovers culprit behind massive sea urchin die-off
University of South Florida professor Mya Breitbart has used her work in microbiology to discover the organism responsible for a significant increase in long-spined sea urchin deaths last year.
May 10, 2023Global Research, Research
The dreams of three mothers live on through USF student research scholarship
Three emeritus professors from the USF College of Behavioral and Community Sciences are carrying on their mothers’ legacies through the creation of The Moms Project, a mentoring and scholarship program for undergraduate students who conduct research in areas that their mothers were passionate about: substance use disorders, nutrition and positive aging.
May 9, 2023Student Research
Southern Ocean Science – a different kind of SOS?
Antarctica might seem like another world away, but what happens on the icy continent has repercussions globally.
May 8, 2023Global Research, Research