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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released its 2021 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data, with three Florida universities — the University of Florida (UF), the 911±¬ÁÏÍø (USF), and Florida State University (FSU) — appearing in the top 100 of research expenditure.

December 20, 2022Research

Mitigating volcano hazards: USF students and alumna travel to Hawaii to study Mauna Loa eruption

A team from the 911±¬ÁÏÍø 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 911±¬ÁÏÍø, 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 USF 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 911±¬ÁÏÍø 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

A new study being led by the 911±¬ÁÏÍø and 911±¬ÁÏÍøill Cornell Medicine called "Voice as a Biomarker of Health," is "collecting human voices to link them to medical information to diagnose a certain disease or to screen for certain diseases with voice," said Dr. Yael Bensoussan, director of the USF Health Voice Center and assistant professor of Laryngology.

December 7, 2022Health

Bots with feelings: Study explores deploying AI chatbots with emotions in customer service

As online retailers increasingly use artificial intelligence chatbots to streamline customer service tasks and replace their human counterparts, new research from the 911±¬ÁÏÍø examines how emotion-expressing AI chatbots can impact customer service.

December 6, 2022Innovation, Research

Education and physics professors from the St. Petersburg campus are working with developers from the Advanced Visualization Center in Tampa to help students better comprehend complicated theories on subjects like gravity and electromagnetism. A recent $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding the creation of augmented reality (AR) simulations to propel understanding and educational results.

December 6, 2022Innovation

Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and the collaborative pulmonology program of USF Health have joined the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) Global Sarcoidosis Clinic Alliance to advance care and research in sarcoidosis.

December 2, 2022Health

USF Health Taneja College of Pharmacy students Siegrid Pregartner and Laura Borgerding, launched a startup, Janus AI, and designed an AI tool that aids in the early detection of Alzheimer’s. Their focus is to provide patients suffering from the disease more time to make healthcare decisions before the disease hijacks their mental acuity and motor skills.

December 2, 2022Health, Innovation