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USF awarded more than $8.5 million to train public health leaders in national collaborative leadership program

In an effort to strengthen the U.S. public health system, three national philanthropic nonprofits joined to award USF grants to lead the PHEARLESS initiative designed to rebuild collaboration and leadership skills among public health leaders.

June 28, 2023Health, Research

USF St. Pete prepares to begin construction on new environmental research and teaching facility

The USF St. Pete campus will soon undergo construction for the addition of a new science facility to be used to further investigate the marine life and coastal climate struggles that the St. Pete community faces.

June 28, 2023Research

USF College of Arts and Sciences teams join forces to digitally preserve a historically Black cemetery in Pasco County

The USF College of Arts and Sciences’ (CAS) Dr. Antoinette Jackson, anthropology chair and director of the Living Heritage Institute and Story Studio (LHI) and Black Cemetery Network (BCN), has joined forces with Dr. Davide Tanasi, history professor and director of the Institute for Digital Exploration (IDEx), to preserve Mt. Carmel Cemetery, a historically Black cemetery in Pasco County, via 3D digitization techniques.

June 27, 2023Research

USF, Corridor collaboration supports sustainable manufacturing, defense technology and Alzheimer’s research

USF Research & Innovation and the Florida High Tech Corridor are partnering to provide $75,000 to support the advancement of technologies developed by USF researchers.

June 27, 2023Honors and Awards, Research

USF CSE Prof. Katkoori and students granted a US patent for a novel PUF Design

USF Computer Science and Engineering Professor Katkoori and Alumni Rohith Challa and Dr. Arif Islam, have been granted a US patent for an SR Flip-Flop based Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) for Hardware Security. These systems can create randomness for use in applications with high-security requirements.

June 26, 2023Innovation, Research

A collaboration between CSE, Anthropology, and Rapid7 receive $1.5M+ in grants from ONR and NSF

The $1.5M grants over three years, equally split from ONR and NSF, followed the announcement of $1.5M gift from Rapid7 to USF to establish the Rapid7 Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab earlier this year. Together, they made a combined $3M infusion of funds to jump-start the initiative.

June 26, 2023Research

USF to upskill soaring tech workforce with semiconductor technology and manufacturing graduate certificate program

The USF College of Engineering is partnering with Innovative Education to equip tech-sector professionals with specialized knowledge and skills in the rapidly growing field of semiconductor technology and manufacturing through a fully online graduate certificate program.

June 23, 2023Research

USF launching AI certificate program for fall semester

Starting in the fall semester of 2023, the University of South Florida will offer an Artificial Intelligence Certificate. "As people become aware of it, know what’s inside it, what is possible, what are the limitations, what it can do, I think we can better use it,” said Distinguished University Professor Sudeep Sarkar, who is Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at USF.

June 17, 2023Research

Governor approves $24 million for USFSP science facility

University of South Florida officials have secured funding to build the Environmental and Oceanographic Sciences Research and Teaching Facility (EOS) on the USF St. Petersburg campus.

June 16, 2023Research

From plastic to productive: can air-cushions be repurposed to cultivate algae?

Researchers at University of South Florida envision a creative way to transform plastic waste from your online shopping habit into algae-growing machines.

June 16, 2023Innovation, Research

USF coral biologists host panel of experts to guide future research

In August 2021, Dr. John Parkinson, an assistant professor in the USF College of Arts and Sciences Department of Integrative Biology, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to help coordinate and fund a workshop that brought together more than 60 scientists from 12 countries to build consensus around the assessment and interpretation of coral symbiont diversity.

June 16, 2023Research

Every picture in USF professor’s PhotoVoice project tells a story about young people’s mental health

In USF Sarasota-Manatee campus assistant professor Margaret McGladrey's recent PhotoVoice project, young people used photography to illustrate topics related to mental health and mental illness.

June 16, 2023Health, Research

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