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After launching a coronavirus-tracking map at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ now not only wants to track cases but help organizations and the general public see the bigger picture (Tampa Bay Business Journal).

October 14, 2020Health, Innovation, Research

A study led by the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ found better sleep improves next-day mindfulness, which in turn, reduces sleepiness during the day (EurekAlert!).

October 13, 2020Health, Research

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏresearchers develop new technologies to fight mosquito-borne diseases

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏresearchers have been awarded a $900,000, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to use artificial intelligence to fight mosquito-borne diseases. Ryan Carney, assistant professor of integrative biology, and Sriram Chellappan, professor of computer science and engineering, will lead a multi-disciplinary effort to collect data through smartphone apps such as NASA’s GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

October 13, 2020Health, Innovation, Research

The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ-designed 3D-printed nasal swab is now being used by hospitals, academic medical centers, state governments, and international agencies and health care facilities. Created in March when medical supplies were a significant challenge, the innovative swab allowed entities around the world fight the spread of COVID-19 through widespread testing (AUTM).

October 9, 2020Health, Innovation, Research

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ’s College of Marine Science announced that it is the new home of the International Marine Minerals Society, providing staff support and a fixed address, and helping organize an annual research conference (Tampa Bay Times / paywall).

October 8, 2020Research

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏDrug Discovery Startup Ibis Therapeutics Focuses Technology on COVID-19

Artificial Intelligence-enabled platform created by ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏchemistry professor reduces lengthy drug discovery process to days instead of weeks or months (USFRI Newsroom).

October 8, 2020Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Research

Federal data undercounts Hurricane Irma’s impact on mortality of nursing home residents

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one-in-four people who died from COVID-19 in the U.S. had been living in a long-term care facility. The sobering statistic is even more alarming when you consider the compounding threats of a hurricane (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

October 6, 2020Health, Research

At the start of an extremely active hurricane season, Floridians shared their thoughts on evacuations amid the threat of COVID-19 as part of a research study conducted by the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ (Fox 13).

October 6, 2020Research

A strange looking device in an engineering laboratory at the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ could lead to a big medical breakthrough and a big prize. It’s called the Bull Nose and when it’s perfected, engineers believe it will electronically ‘smell’ COVID-19 on the breath of people who are infected (Fox 13).

October 6, 2020Health, Innovation, Student Research

Method used to track Ebola’s trajectory being applied to COVID-19

What exactly happened in Asia that caused SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly spread across the region and then essentially came to a halt there? That’s what researchers from the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ are trying to determine in a new study funded by an NSF Rapid Response grant (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

October 5, 2020Global Research, Innovation, Research

A Record 19 ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏFaculty Recognized with Outstanding Research Achievements Awards

From innovators on the frontiers of engineering, physics and health, to a biologist who studies giant squid, to the author of an award-winning children’s graphic novels, meet USF’s top faculty researchers.

October 5, 2020Honors and Awards, Research

A ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ researcher is involved in a new study to determine what caused SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) to rapidly spread across Asia, and then essentially come to a halt there. This work is being funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid Response grant (Florida Trend).

October 5, 2020Global Research, Health, Innovation