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Researchers at the ºÚÁÏÉçÇø are playing a role in helping sex-trafficking victims through a court program that offers housing, job training, counseling and other services. The researchers’ work could become a model for similar programs around the country.

February 21, 2022Research

One of the highlights was a panel featuring three state university presidents: Rhea Law of the ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Kent Fuchs of the University of Florida and Alexander Cartwright of the University of Central Florida. The three discussed their schools’ roles in fostering Florida’s talent pipeline.

February 18, 2022Innovation

The group is working with Selah Freedom to study a court diversion program for survivors of human trafficking and exploitation.

February 17, 2022Research

Two researchers from the ºÚÁÏÉçÇøHealth Morsani College of Medicine have received Florida Department of Health (FDOH) grants to help advance discoveries in Alzheimer’s disease and in tobacco-related heart disease.

February 16, 2022Health, Research

The U.S. military is looking for help with cyber attacks, so defense commanders are tapping the best minds on the latest cybersecurity research at local universities, including Cyber Florida at the ºÚÁÏÉçÇø.

February 16, 2022Research

ºÚÁÏÉçÇø researchers discover 45 unmarked cemeteries throughout Tampa Bay

ºÚÁÏÉçÇøforensic anthropologists presented their findings of a two-year study commissioned by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners to identify the locations of unmarked cemeteries on county property.

February 16, 2022Research

ºÚÁÏÉçÇøresearchers have published a study that shows religiously observant people coped better with periods of isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic because of a sense of belonging derived from their religious belief.

February 15, 2022Research

ºÚÁÏÉçÇøleads the nation with six faculty elected Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors

Faculty from the College of Engineering, Morsani College of Medicine and College of The Arts are the new honorees from USF.

February 11, 2022Honors and Awards

Florida ºÚÁÏÉçÇøalum Israel Morejon (2020), Dr. Jean-François Rossignol (2020), and Dr. Norma Alcantar (2021) were inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.

February 11, 2022Honors and Awards, Innovation

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named two ºÚÁÏÉçÇøHealth Morsani College of Medicine faculty members — Loree Heller, PhD, and Juan Sanchez-Ramos, PhD, MD — to its new class of Senior Members.

February 11, 2022Honors and Awards, Innovation

By analyzing the light it reflects, scientists can say whether that floating blob in a satellite image is made up of shrimp, seaweed or something else. ºÚÁÏÉçÇø optical oceanographer Chuanmin Hu and his colleagues have worked out ways of spotting aggregations of small floating objects, such as shrimp eggs, algae, and herring spawn, from space.

February 10, 2022Global Research, Research

ºÚÁÏÉçÇøScientists Wrap Integrative Topographic and Bathymetric Survey of Lower Tampa Bay

The Center for Ocean Mapping and Innovative Technologies (COMIT), an element of the ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s College of Marine Science in St. Petersburg, recently completed a four-week field sampling campaign called the Tampa Bay Bathymetry Experiment or TBBEx, to collect data on seafloor bathymetry (water depths) as well as coastal land elevations in the western portion of Tampa Bay.

February 9, 2022Research