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Variety and Consistency are Essential to Keep the Mind Healthy

A new study from the ÐÓ°ÉÐÔÊÀ½ç (USF) finds a key piece to maintaining cognitive function throughout adulthood is to stay active and engaged in diverse activities regularly (USF Newsroom).

February 18, 2020Health, Research

Conner Prochaska, David Conrad and Svetlana Shtrom discussed how researchers and innovators in private industry and academia can get their ideas to market (Catalyst).

February 17, 2020Innovation, Research

A Message to the USF Faculty: Guidance on Disclosing Foreign Relationships

The ÐÓ°ÉÐÔÊÀ½ç values its research community and recognizes the significant public benefit that comes from your scientific advances and discoveries, many of which would not be possible without our international faculty, students and staff and global collaborations. Faculty are asked to review this recent message on disclosing foreign research relationships.

February 14, 2020Global Research

USF Works with Local Community to Uncover the Legacies of Those Forgotten

As forgotten burial grounds continue to be discovered around Tampa Bay, the ÐÓ°ÉÐÔÊÀ½ç and Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) are working with local officials and community members to rediscover unmarked graves and identify those forgotten there (USF Newsroom).

February 14, 2020Research

USF Health Research Day will be take place on February 21, 2020 at the Marshall Student Center. The event features original research from the students, faculty, and staff affiliated with USF Health.

February 12, 2020Health, Research

Two faculty from the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine are among five ÐÓ°ÉÐÔÊÀ½ç staff named to the 2020 class of National Academy of Inventors Senior Members (USF Health).

February 12, 2020Health, Innovation

USF President Steven Currall was a keynote speaker at Synapse Summit 2020 on Tuesday at Amalie Arena and talked about the importance of collaborating with government officials and entrepreneurs as a university to advance the ecosystem of innovation (USF Oracle).

February 12, 2020Innovation

ÐÓ°ÉÐÔÊÀ½ç President Steven Currall believes innovation means more than venture capital firms funding ideas or startups ramping up their technology. He says innovation serves as a domino effect when it comes to job growth, patent production and ultimately growing the Tampa Bay ecosystem as a whole (Tampa Bay Business Journal).

February 11, 2020Innovation

USF’s Society of Aeronautics and Rocketry (SOAR) is competing against much bigger and better-funded college programs in an epic space race for $1 million (WFTS).

February 10, 2020Innovation, Student Research

A professor at the ÐÓ°ÉÐÔÊÀ½ç may hold the key to helping slow the spread of Coronavirus. Dr. Yogi Goswami is an inventor and distinguished professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at USF. He created a unique technology that doesn’t just filter air, it actually kills viruses and other pathogens in the air too small for filtration (WFLA).

February 10, 2020Global Research, Health, Innovation

Synapse Summit expects to bring 6,000 people together under one roof February 11-12. Faculty, students and staff from the ÐÓ°ÉÐÔÊÀ½ç will rotate to showcase their technologies used to help the region, whether that is preserving history, helping heart patients better manage their health, or use virtual or augmented reality (Tampa Bay Business Journal).

February 7, 2020Innovation

Colossal Oysters Have Disappeared from Florida’s Most ‘Pristine’ Coastlines

Hundreds of years ago, colossal oysters were commonplace across much of Florida’s northern Gulf Coast. Today, those oysters have disappeared, leaving behind a new generation roughly a third smaller – a massive decline that continues to have both economic and environmental impacts on a region considered by many to be the last remaining unspoiled coastlines in the Gulf. The loss of these colossal oysters is at the center of new research from an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the ÐÓ°ÉÐÔÊÀ½ç (USF Newsroom).

February 5, 2020Research