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USF welcomes Super Bowl LV to Tampa
During the game, physicians, faculty members and residents from the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine will play a key role in player and fan safety. Dr. Byron Moran, medical director of USF Health’s Concussion Center, serves as the Buccaneers’ head team physician. On the Chief’s sideline, will be Dr. Jason Wilson, associate director of USF Emergency Medicine (USF Newsroom).
February 3, 2021Health
USF Health in vitro study helps explain how Zika virus is transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy
A preclinical study by a University of South Florida Health (USF 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 (USF Health).
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
Satellites engineered by USF 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 USF Institute of Applied Engineering (College of Engineering).
January 29, 2021Innovation, Student Research
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
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