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Cutting-edge innovations to fight disease, enhance learning win USF’s Excellence in Innovation Awards
Faculty inventors who created new technologies and applications to address COVID-19, malaria and literacy barriers are lauded in annual awards (USFRI Newsroom).
February 1, 2021Honors and Awards, Innovation, Research
Does the Super Bowl really increase sex trafficking in host city?
USF researchers say the widely held perception that the Super Bowl is a magnet for sex trafficking is largely unfounded (USF Newsroom).
February 1, 2021Research
College of Marine Sciences receives $3 million gift
$3 million has been gifted to the USF Foundation to benefit students in the College of Marine Science.
January 31, 2021Research
Not all in one basket: Loggerhead sea turtles lay eggs in multiple locations to improve reproductive success
A new USF study finds individual female sea turtles lay numerous clutches of eggs in locations miles apart from each other to increase the chance that some of their offspring will survive (USF St. Petersburg campus).
January 28, 2021Research
USF's new justice and diversity center receives funding from Lightning, Bucs, Rays
The center comes after receiving a $1.2 million grant from a national institution (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).
January 28, 2021Research
University of South Florida’s new Center for Justice Research & Policy to tackle police reform, fairness in the justice system
The University of South Florida announced the launch of an interdisciplinary center dedicated to serving Tampa Bay as the major training and knowledge hub for issues related to social and criminal justice (USF Newsroom).
January 28, 2021Research
Moffitt Cancer Center To Begin 775-Acre Campus In Florida
Moffitt Cancer Center will create 1.4 million square feet of research lab/office, light industrial/manufacturing, general office, and clinical building space on a 775-acre campus in Pasco County, FL. The expanded clinical and research facilities will accommodate Moffitt’s growth in the Tampa Bay region of complementary third-party research, product manufacturing, clinical providers, and conferencing facilities. (Business Facilities).
University of South Florida researchers release findings from new national COVID-19 opinion survey
Researchers with the University of South Florida School of Public Affairs, in partnership with Cyber Florida at the University of South Florida, have released the second set of results from a nationwide opinion survey regarding COVID-19 (USF Newsroom).
USF-led international geosciences team reconstructs 6.5 million years of sea level stands in Western Mediterranean
To gain insight into future ice sheet stability and sea-level rise, new research from an international team led by University of South Florida geoscientists is drawing on evidence from past interglacial periods when Earth’s climate was warmer than today (Mirage News).
January 22, 2021Global Research, Research
USF developing a blood test to 'predict' whether you'll die of COVID-19
Doctors at USF Health are working on a test that could predict how bad your reaction will be to the coronavirus before you even develop any symptoms. USF Health hopes to have trials started by this year (ABC Action News).
January 22, 2021Health, Innovation, Research
Still Here: The Griffith J. Davis Photographs+Archives in Context
Archives in Context features rarely seen 1939 to 1988 era photographic imagery of the groundbreaking life and photographic practice of Griff Davis, which is supported by a USF Understanding and Addressing Blackness and Anti-Black Racism in Our Local, National, and International Communities Research Grant; Susana and Yann Weymouth; Mort and Sara Richter; Major Sponsor The Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation; and the Florida Department of State (Patch).
January 22, 2021Research
Family Study Center receives $3.7 million federal grant to support vulnerable families
A collaborative team led by psychology professor James McHale, director of the Family Study Center on the USF St. Petersburg campus, has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to research and strengthen relationships between family members to create safe and supportive households.
January 21, 2021Research
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