TAMPA, Fla. 鈥� Among these impressive discoveries and advancements, one researcher in 黑料网吃瓜爆料Health has created a nationally acclaimed interactive dashboard to track COVID-19 and another is developing novel COVID-19 therapeutics. Another faculty member has received NASA funding to improve human spaceflight conditions, while her colleague is creating new defenses for wireless network security systems. And in 黑料网吃瓜爆料Health Morsani College of Medicine a professor has made outstanding contributions relevant to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.
These are just a few of the faculty research achievements newly recognized with USF鈥檚 Outstanding Research Achievement Awards. This year鈥檚 awards recognize 26 faculty members鈥攖he largest group to date鈥攆or their important achievements.
鈥淭he 黑料网吃瓜爆料鈥檚 reputation as a top research university is powered by the discoveries and innovations of our faculty members,鈥� said 黑料网吃瓜爆料President Rhea Law. 鈥淚 congratulate each of the outstanding awardees on all they have accomplished in their work of advancing knowledge, finding solutions and transforming lives.鈥�
The largest internal recognition of its kind at USF, the annual nominations are submitted by deans, department chairs, center and institute directors, and associate deans of research. The nominations are reviewed by members of the 黑料网吃瓜爆料Research Council. Each faculty member receives $2,000 with the award and recognition at an event later in the fall.
Here are this year鈥檚 awardees:
Kathy Black, PhD, MPH
Professor, School of Aging Studies
College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
Recognized for extraordinary leadership in the promotion of equitable healthy aging in age-friendly community practice鈥攕tatewide, nationally, and internationally.
Dr. Black is a renowned expert on healthy aging in . Her research informs and inspires professionals across a range of disciplines in
the built, social, and service environment. In 2021, Dr. Black received a grant to
develop an Equitable Healthy Aging toolkit for the nation鈥檚 community health improvement
professionals, aligning the concepts of health equity and healthy aging to enhance
the capacity of the nation鈥檚 local health departments. The project extends Dr. Black鈥檚
leadership role in age-friendly public health practice at the state, national and
international level. Dr. Black also continued to lead Florida鈥檚 statewide age-friendly
community network in 2021, conduct advisory roles on healthy aging for the Florida
Departments of Health and Transportation, and manage the state鈥檚 Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease
and Related Disorders Training program through the Florida Department of Elder Affairs.
Patrice M. Buzzanell, PhD
Distinguished University Professor, Communication
College of Arts and Sciences
Recognized for numerous publications, a signed book contract, receiving two top national and international awards, and a ranking in the top 2% of cited scientists in the world by a recent Stanford University study.
Dr. Buzzanell is a world-renowned scholar in Organizational Communication, Resilience, and Design
in Engineering Education. Dr. Buzzanell鈥檚 research brings together organizational
sense-making, career theory, feminist workplace policies and practices, design for
diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and currently, theories of and scales for
resilience in organizational and relational spaces. A scholar, teacher, and mentor,
who has won nearly every available award in the discipline, Dr. Buzzanell continues
to research and publish at a rate unparalleled by her peers. In 2021, Dr. Buzznell
was ranked in the top 2% of scientists world-wide; she was honored with multiple national and international awards (two from the most recognized ones in the discipline), delivered keynote speeches
across the globe, published seven journal articles (in top-tier journals) and two
refereed engineering education proceedings, six book chapters, three non-refereed
journal articles, and signed a contract for a co-authored book project on ethics.
Stephanie Carey, PhD
Research Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Recognized for seminal contributions in prosthetics and orthotics, in monitoring performance and situational awareness of military personnel and improving human spaceflight conditions.
Dr. Carey's investigations of prosthetics and orthotics led to journal and conference
articles and funding from the Department of Defense, U.S. Army, and Tampa VA in 2021.
She also received funding from USSOCOM to develop a monitoring and alert system and
will conduct another project to study performance limitations under cognitive load
for the military. In collaboration with the Department of Neurology and School of
Music, Dr. Carey filed a patent for a device for the treatment of dystonia. Dr. Carey
has expanded her research efforts to include the effects of human spaceflight which
has led to NASA funding to study and spacesuits, and an international provisional patent for a device to synthesize
compounds. Dr. Carey continues her efforts as the research coordinator for the and as a trained operator of the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN)
system.
Yu Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular Medicine
Morsani College of Medicine
Recognized for significant contributions to studies of bacterial resistance against beta-lactam antibiotics and developing novel therapeutics against COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2.
focuses on targeting infection diseases and other human diseases. In 2021, he was awarded a
5-year R01 grant studying bacterial resistance against beta-lactam antibiotics with
a total funding of $3,803,725. He was also awarded an R21 grant studying the bacterial
pathogen S. aureus, as well as serving as co-Investigator on an R01 developing novel
therapeutics against COVID-19. Dr. Chen has made significant contributions to , a key antiviral target. In the past year, among a total of nine research papers,
he published four on inhibitor discovery against the main protease as corresponding
or co-corresponding author, in journals such as Cell Research (Impact factor, 25.62), Journal of American Chemical Society (IF, 15.42), ACS Central Science (IF, 14.55) and Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (IF, 7.45).
Jennifer Collins, PhD
Professor, School of Geosciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Recognized for distinguished contributions to the fields of geography and meteorology, particularly for her role on the team which discovered the first category 5 hurricane on record to make landfall in the United States as well as significant work on hurricane evacuation behavior during a pandemic.
had 15 publications in 2021 either published (nine of them), accepted, or submitted
then later accepted. On most, she lead authored or was supervisor of lead author graduate
students. She included several undergraduates as coauthors. These were significant
papers, such as one lead-authored by her masters student, highlighted in the Washington
Post, regarding identification of the first Category 5 hurricane on record to affect
the U.S. In 2021, she had three active grants, including two from NSF, and submitted
four grants. Dr. Collins鈥� work transects the fields of Geography and Meteorology.
She was voted as Fellow in 2021 in both of her major organizations: the American Meteorological Society and the American Association of Geographers. She also received a scholarship from
the Natural Hazards Center.
Lingling Fan, PhD
Professor, Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering
Recognized for distinguished contributions to the field of power and energy, particularly for modeling and analysis of inverter-based resource penetrated power grids and providing fundamental understandings on real-world dynamic phenomena and mitigation solutions for reliability enhancement.
is an internationally recognized leader in the field of inverter-based resource (IBR)-penetrated
power grid dynamic analysis and control. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Electrification Magazine and is the PI on a multi-year $1.5 million DOE project on solar PV modeling and analysis
(2019-2023). In 2021, Dr. Fan published 10 articles in , the top journals in her field, and was corresponding author and supervisor in all
of them and lead author in 5. She also received a $350,000 grant from NSF on IBR dynamic
model identification using data and was elevated to IEEE Fellow for her contributions
to IBR stability analysis and control in November 2021. were cited 924 times in 2021 alone.
Howard Goldstein, PhD
Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
Recognized for a sustained history of exemplary publications and distinguished contributions to communication sciences and disorders for intervention strategies to promote early development of language, literacy, and social skills.
Dr. Goldstein is an Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
His career accomplishments were recognized with the . His recent grants and publications advance knowledge of interventions to enhance
readiness of students in high poverty schools who are at risk for language and reading
disabilities. His research on how best to teach academic vocabulary and early literacy
skills to young children has expanded into written language development. His 2021
publications represent innovative practices for assessing and teaching writing skills
in kindergarten and first grade. He and his students investigated how the COVID-19
pandemic affected speech-language pathology services and provided important information
about the validity of telehealth assessments that had been called into question. His
leadership also was evident in the continued development of the 黑料网吃瓜爆料 (PRRN鈩�) and an associated publication on how universities can address global challenges.
Rasim Guldiken, PhD
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Recognized for seminal contributions to acoustics, engineering education research, more specifically novel bridge inspection by ultrasound, as well as student-centered inclusive learning, metacognition, and reflection on STEM courses.
In 2021, served as the PI of a diverse research group focused on Acoustics and Engineering Education Research composed of seven PhD students, including three females and one student from an underrepresented group. Both research areas received external funding in 2021 (one from NSF, one from the U.S. Department