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A preclinical study by a ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Health (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏHealth) 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 (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏHealth).

February 2, 2021Health, Research

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

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏresearchers say the widely held perception that the Super Bowl is a magnet for sex trafficking is largely unfounded (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

February 1, 2021Research

$3 million has been gifted to the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏFoundation to benefit students in the College of Marine Science.

January 31, 2021Research

Satellites engineered by ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏstudents 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 ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏInstitute of Applied Engineering (College of Engineering).

January 29, 2021Innovation, Student Research

A new ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏstudy 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 (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏSt. Petersburg campus).

January 28, 2021Research

The center comes after receiving a $1.2 million grant from a national institution (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).

January 28, 2021Research

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ’s new Center for Justice Research & Policy to tackle police reform, fairness in the justice system

The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ 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 (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

January 28, 2021Research

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).

January 26, 2021Health, Research

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ researchers release findings from new national COVID-19 opinion survey

Researchers with the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ School of Public Affairs, in partnership with Cyber Florida at the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ, have released the second set of results from a nationwide opinion survey regarding COVID-19 (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

January 25, 2021Health, Research

To gain insight into future ice sheet stability and sea-level rise, new research from an international team led by ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ geoscientists is drawing on evidence from past interglacial periods when Earth’s climate was warmer than today (Mirage News).

January 22, 2021Global Research, Research

Doctors at ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏHealth are working on a test that could predict how bad your reaction will be to the coronavirus before you even develop any symptoms. ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏHealth hopes to have trials started by this year (ABC Action News).

January 22, 2021Health, Innovation, Research