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In this new video-short from The National Academy of Inventors we hear from the inventor behind Molekule, named one of TIME magazine's Best Inventions (PR Newswire).

September 24, 2020Innovation

The university has infused $582 million in Florida through its Research Park in the last year (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).

September 23, 2020Innovation, Research

The National Science Foundation awarded a °ÙÃĵ¼º½ professor a Rapid Response grant to study evacuation behaviors during a global pandemic. °ÙÃĵ¼º½ Geosciences Professor Jennifer Collins will use the grant to investigate if people impacted by mandatory hurricane evacuations are choosing to ignore them and shelter in place, making the decision based on health concerns (Florida Politics).

September 21, 2020Research

New Ranking: °ÙÃĵ¼º½ is 13th Among Large Universities in Innovation Impact Productivity

Report from the Bush Institute and Opus Faveo comes as °ÙÃĵ¼º½ posts record technology transfer numbers for 2019-20 and works to address COVID-19 challenges.

September 21, 2020Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Research

Study investigates hurricane evacuations in the era of COVID-19

The 2020 hurricane season is breaking records with 23 named storms, and more are projected to develop over the next few weeks. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts there will be as many as 25 by the time the season ends. Researchers say this extremely active forecast is especially troublesome due to the compounding risks of COVID-19 (°ÙÃĵ¼º½ Newsroom).

September 21, 2020Research

As the nation reckons with systemic racism and how to move forward, researchers at the °ÙÃĵ¼º½ are focusing on how it exists in Tampa Bay and abroad (Fox 13 News).

September 19, 2020Research

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $1 Million to the °ÙÃĵ¼º½ in Tampa as part of a total of $6,487,188 in funding to seven institutions to research how to prevent and control harmful algal blooms.

September 17, 2020Research

International companies to manufacture °ÙÃĵ¼º½ technology that addresses global sanitation concerns

Agreements coincide with °ÙÃĵ¼º½ civil and environmental engineering Professor Daniel Yeh’s team being named a winner of the 2020 Patents for Humanity Award from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (°ÙÃĵ¼º½ Newsroom).

September 17, 2020Honors and Awards, Innovation

°ÙÃĵ¼º½'s research expenditures extend beyond elevating the school; they also have an economic impact to the Tampa Bay region as a whole (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).

September 17, 2020Entrepreneurship, Innovation

The concentration of mercury in fish in Alaska’s Yukon River may exceed EPA mercury criterion by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions are not constrained, according to a new scientific research paper co-authored by a professor at the °ÙÃĵ¼º½â€™s St. Petersburg campus.

September 17, 2020Research

The study examines how a percentage of otherwise healthy adults are having an "allergic reaction" to the virus. Researchers in several °ÙÃĵ¼º½ departments—including medicine, nursing and business—are recruiting volunteers from Tampa General Hospital's COVID-19 clinic for a new wearable devices study to predict when symptoms will worsen (W°ÙÃĵ¼º½).

September 17, 2020Health, Innovation, Research

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Colleen Naughton and colleagues at the °ÙÃĵ¼º½ and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) earned a National Science Foundation grant to host the conference (UC Merced).

September 16, 2020Research