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USF’s Tampa Bay Technology Incubator Wins National Award for Client Service

The International Business Innovation Association lauds USF’s program for supporting startup COI Energy’s trailblazing efforts.

May 18, 2021Entrepreneurship, Honors and Awards, Innovation

New method to improve durability of nano-electronic components to help further semiconductor manufacturing and resilience

аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Mechanical Engineering assistant professor Michael Cai Wang and his research team recently developed a novel approach to mitigating electromigration in nanoscale electronic interconnects that are ubiquitous in state-of-the-art integrated circuits (аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Newsroom).

May 18, 2021Innovation, Research, Student Research

A current study initiated by a team of аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢biomedical engineers and psychiatrists, including Glenn Currier, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences as well as senior author of the study, indicates a sign of hope for those seeking effective depression treatment (аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Oracle).

May 18, 2021Health, Innovation

History Instructor Larissa Kopytoff has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to continue research into the evolving ideas of citizenship and identity in colonial and post-colonial Africa (аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢St. Petersburg Campus).

May 17, 2021Global Research, Research

Through an $85 million contract with U.S. Special Operations Command, the Institute of Applied Engineering is developing everything from satellites to brain injury research (Tampa Bay Times).

May 14, 2021Innovation, Research

Modeling was key in Deepwater Horizon oil spill research. So was consistent funding.

New state-of-the-art tools have changed the way we understand the impacts of oil on the marine environment (аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢College of Marine Science).

May 14, 2021Research

Legislation that will put the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢College of Marine Science at the forefront of an ambitious plan to address rising sea levels and flooding in Florida has been signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Two bills signed by the governor mandate creation of a state sea-level rise resilience plan and commit $100 million a year to address flooding issues. They also create a hub for flood research and innovation at the College of Marine Science on the St. Petersburg campus (Crow's Nest).

May 13, 2021Research

Byrd has focused her scholarship on the intersection of race and gender for school-aged Black girls and the resulting complexity of their social, emotional and academic development (Sarasota Magazine).

May 12, 2021Honors and Awards, Research

Fossilized plaque scraped from the teeth of a 4,500-year-old skeleton discovered by аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ professors is helping to unlock the secrets of what ancient humans ate and how our species evolved (аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢St. Pete).

May 10, 2021Global Research, Research

When Norma Alcantar got a call last month from Judy Genshaft, the former аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ president, she was pleasantly surprised to hear that she would be inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Genshaft had nominated her for the honor (Orlando Sentinel).

May 9, 2021Honors and Awards, Innovation

Norma Alcantar has more than 22 patents based on a natural substance she found out about from her grandmother (Tampa Bay Times).

May 5, 2021Honors and Awards, Innovation

аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢researcher visualizes discovery of oldest human burial in Africa made by international team of scientists

An international team of scientists has uncovered the earliest modern human burial in Africa—changing what we know about social behaviors in Homo sapiens—and a researcher at the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ (USF) has helped use 3D and advanced imaging technologies to bring the 78,000-year-old remains of a child back to life (аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Newsroom).

May 5, 2021Global Research, Research