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Method used to track Ebola’s trajectory being applied to COVID-19

What exactly happened in Asia that caused SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly spread across the region and then essentially came to a halt there? That’s what researchers from the University of South Florida are trying to determine in a new study funded by an NSF Rapid Response grant (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Newsroom).

October 5, 2020Global Research, Innovation, Research

A Record 19 ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Faculty Recognized with Outstanding Research Achievements Awards

From innovators on the frontiers of engineering, physics and health, to a biologist who studies giant squid, to the author of an award-winning children’s graphic novels, meet ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ’s top faculty researchers.

October 5, 2020Honors and Awards, Research

A University of South Florida researcher is involved in a new study to determine what caused SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) to rapidly spread across Asia, and then essentially come to a halt there. This work is being funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid Response grant (Florida Trend).

October 5, 2020Global Research, Health, Innovation

Dr. Salvatore D. Morgera, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida, currently leads a team of researchers working to develop an "electronic nose" capable of smelling biochemicals present in the novel coronavirus. The ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ lab-developed device, dubbed "Bull Nose" was recently selected from a field of over 4,000 competitors as a semi-finalist in the XPRIZE Rapid COVID Testing competition (83 Degrees).

October 1, 2020Innovation, Research

The three studies will target hurricane evacuation procedures, hurricane shelter operations and the gaps created by hurricanes amid COVID-19 (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Oracle).

October 1, 2020Research

ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ researchers win $1 million EPA grant to prevent and treat harmful algal blooms in Lake Okeechobee

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded a team of engineers and geoscientists at ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ a $1 million grant to research new methods for preventing and controlling harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Lake Okeechobee (College of Engineering).

September 30, 2020Research

Dinosaur feather study debunked

A new study provides substantial evidence that the first fossil feather ever to be discovered does belong to the iconic Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur named in Germany on this day in 1861. This debunks a recent theory that the fossil feather originated from a different species (ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ Newsroom).

September 30, 2020Global Research, Research

Researchers from ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ are studying how hurricane evacuations may be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic this year. Jennifer Collins, a professor of geosciences at ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ, and Elizabeth Dunn, instructor in the ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ College of Public Health, received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response grant to work with National Weather Service, Louisiana Public Health Institute and other meteorologists and emergency planners on the study (Tampa Bay Times / paywall).

September 30, 2020Research

The Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network, or RADIANT, plans to screen about 2,000 people with unknown or atypical forms of diabetes that do not fit the common features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes (NIH).

September 30, 2020Health, Research

The University of South Florida has created an "electronic nose" that could suss out biochemicals created by Covid-19. That technology has now gotten national attention and will compete in a national Covid-19 testing competition (Tampa Bay Business Journal).

September 30, 2020Innovation, Research

Jennifer Collins, a professor in the University of South Florida School of Geosciences, has received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response grant to study people's evacuation behaviors during the pandemic (Wľ¹ÏÊÓƵ).

September 30, 2020Research

Interdisciplinary researchers at ľ¹ÏÊÓƵ’s St. Petersburg campus are investigating the pandemic’s effect on air quality in communities across Florida (St. Pete Campus).

September 28, 2020Research