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A research project spearheaded by faculty on the ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ St. Petersburg and Tampa campuses working with community partners locally and in Savannah, Georgia seeks to reduce unintended teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and incidents of trafficking for marginalized youth.

January 11, 2023Research

Delve into the newest issue of Innovations Magazine, spotlighting the student successes, vital research and impactful community and global initiatives on ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬'s St. Petersburg campus during the past year.

January 9, 2023Innovation, Research

Public transportation agency sees boost in ridership following ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ eye-tracking research

As part of a collaboration with the ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ Department of Transportation, researchers from the ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), a College of Public Health Social Marketing expert and the Muma College of Business Center for Marketing and Sales Innovation tested a variety of materials from Commuter Assistance Programs across the country to develop data-driven marketing guidelines to improve the effectiveness of commuter marketing efforts.

January 4, 2023Research

Two ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ faculty members elected Fellows of IEEE

Dr. Robert Frisina and Dr. Richard Heller were recognized for their discoveries and applications for medical engineering.

January 3, 2023Honors and Awards

A new study led by ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ Health, Dr. Bensoussan, and Cornell Medicine uses the human voice to diagnose and treat diseases and mood disorders, like depression.

December 23, 2022Health, Innovation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released its 2021 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data, with three ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ universities — the University of ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ (UF), the University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ (ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬), and ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ State University (FSU) — appearing in the top 100 of research expenditure.

December 20, 2022Research

Mitigating volcano hazards: ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ students and alumna travel to Hawaii to study Mauna Loa eruption

A team from the University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ is on the ground in Hawaii studying Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, to improve efforts that can help protect residents from lava flow.

December 19, 2022Research

View our Holiday Video recapping the important and inspiring research our faculty have been doing throughout 2022.

December 15, 2022Research

Chaunmin Hu, a professor at the University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬, says he has been researching red tide for 25 years and has been watching for blooms due to recent storms. Since Hurricane Ian, he says red tide has traveled north from Sarasota to beaches in Pinellas county.

December 9, 2022Research

Two ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ faculty members receive honors from National Academy of Inventors

Dr. Barry Bercu and Dr. Sylvia Thomas earn one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for academic inventors, being recognized for their breakthrough discoveries and inventions advancing diagnosis and treatment for challenging diseases.

December 8, 2022Honors and Awards, Innovation

A new study performed at the University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ analyzes how emotion-expressing AI chatbots have the potential to impact customer service. This comes as online retailers make greater use of artificial intelligence chatbots to simplify customer service tasks and substitute their human counterparts.

December 8, 2022Innovation, Research

New study shows fjords are small-but-mighty planetary ‘thermostats’ that play an important role in the global carbon cycle

December 8, 2022Global Research