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°ÙÃĵ¼º½ Drug Discovery Startup Ibis Therapeutics Focuses Technology on COVID-19

Artificial Intelligence-enabled platform created by °ÙÃĵ¼º½ chemistry professor reduces lengthy drug discovery process to days instead of weeks or months (°ÙÃĵ¼º½RI 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 (°ÙÃĵ¼º½ Newsroom).

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 °ÙÃĵ¼º½ (Fox 13).

October 6, 2020Research

A strange looking device in an engineering laboratory at the °ÙÃĵ¼º½ 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 °ÙÃĵ¼º½ are trying to determine in a new study funded by an NSF Rapid Response grant (°ÙÃĵ¼º½ Newsroom).

October 5, 2020Global Research, Innovation, Research

A Record 19 °ÙÃĵ¼º½ Faculty 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 °ÙÃĵ¼º½â€™s top faculty researchers.

October 5, 2020Honors and Awards, Research

A °ÙÃĵ¼º½ 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

Dr. Salvatore D. Morgera, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the °ÙÃĵ¼º½, currently leads a team of researchers working to develop an "electronic nose" capable of smelling biochemicals present in the novel coronavirus. The °ÙÃĵ¼º½ lab-developed device, dubbed "Bull Nose" was recently selected from a field of over 4,000 competitors as a semi-finalist in the XPRIZE Rapid COVID Testing competition (83 Degrees).

October 1, 2020Innovation, Research

The three studies will target hurricane evacuation procedures, hurricane shelter operations and the gaps created by hurricanes amid COVID-19 (°ÙÃĵ¼º½ Oracle).

October 1, 2020Research

°ÙÃĵ¼º½ researchers win $1 million EPA grant to prevent and treat harmful algal blooms in Lake Okeechobee

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded a team of engineers and geoscientists at °ÙÃĵ¼º½ a $1 million grant to research new methods for preventing and controlling harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Lake Okeechobee (College of Engineering).

September 30, 2020Research

Dinosaur feather study debunked

A new study provides substantial evidence that the first fossil feather ever to be discovered does belong to the iconic Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur named in Germany on this day in 1861. This debunks a recent theory that the fossil feather originated from a different species (°ÙÃĵ¼º½ Newsroom).

September 30, 2020Global Research, Research

Researchers from °ÙÃĵ¼º½ are studying how hurricane evacuations may be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic this year. Jennifer Collins, a professor of geosciences at °ÙÃĵ¼º½, and Elizabeth Dunn, instructor in the °ÙÃĵ¼º½ College of Public Health, received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response grant to work with National Weather Service, Louisiana Public Health Institute and other meteorologists and emergency planners on the study (Tampa Bay Times / paywall).

September 30, 2020Research