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ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ welcomes Super Bowl LV to Tampa

During the game, physicians, faculty members and residents from the ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Health Morsani College of Medicine will play a key role in player and fan safety. Dr. Byron Moran, medical director of ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Health’s Concussion Center, serves as the Buccaneers’ head team physician. On the Chief’s sideline, will be Dr. Jason Wilson, associate director of ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Emergency Medicine (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Newsroom).

February 3, 2021Health

A preclinical study by a University of South Florida Health (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Health) Morsani College of Medicine research team has discovered a new mechanism for how Zika virus can pass from mothers to their children during pregnancy — a process known as vertical transmission (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Health).

February 2, 2021Health, Research

Cutting-edge innovations to fight disease, enhance learning win ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ’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 (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵRI Newsroom).

February 1, 2021Honors and Awards, Innovation, Research

ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ researchers say the widely held perception that the Super Bowl is a magnet for sex trafficking is largely unfounded (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Newsroom).

February 1, 2021Research

$3 million has been gifted to the ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Foundation to benefit students in the College of Marine Science.

January 31, 2021Research

Satellites engineered by ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ students and faculty launch during world record mission

Three of the 143 satellites aboard spaceflight company SpaceX’s first dedicated rideshare mission were engineered by students and faculty at the ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Institute of Applied Engineering (College of Engineering).

January 29, 2021Innovation, Student Research

A new ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ 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 (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ St. Petersburg campus).

January 28, 2021Research

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 (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Newsroom).

January 28, 2021Research

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).

January 26, 2021Health, Research

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 (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Newsroom).

January 25, 2021Health, Research

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