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While the University of Florida, with its 168-year history, has long been heralded as a standard for higher education innovation, the Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ is making gains that could soon put the two on equal footing (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).

February 5, 2021Innovation, Research

New research findings correlate with clinical observations of more fetal abnormalities and other Zika-related health problems in late versus early pregnancy (EurekAlert!).

February 3, 2021Health, Research

Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ welcomes Super Bowl LV to Tampa

During the game, physicians, faculty members and residents from the Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Health Morsani College of Medicine will play a key role in player and fan safety. Dr. Byron Moran, medical director of Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Health’s Concussion Center, serves as the Buccaneers’ head team physician. On the Chief’s sideline, will be Dr. Jason Wilson, associate director of Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Emergency Medicine (Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Newsroom).

February 3, 2021Health

A preclinical study by a Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Health (Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Health) Morsani College of Medicine research team has discovered a new mechanism for how Zika virus can pass from mothers to their children during pregnancy — a process known as vertical transmission (Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Health).

February 2, 2021Health, Research

Cutting-edge innovations to fight disease, enhance learning win Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ’s Excellence in Innovation Awards

Faculty inventors who created new technologies and applications to address COVID-19, malaria and literacy barriers are lauded in annual awards (Ó£»¨ÊÓƵRI Newsroom).

February 1, 2021Honors and Awards, Innovation, Research

Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ researchers say the widely held perception that the Super Bowl is a magnet for sex trafficking is largely unfounded (Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Newsroom).

February 1, 2021Research

$3 million has been gifted to the Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Foundation to benefit students in the College of Marine Science.

January 31, 2021Research

Satellites engineered by Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ students and faculty launch during world record mission

Three of the 143 satellites aboard spaceflight company SpaceX’s first dedicated rideshare mission were engineered by students and faculty at the Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Institute of Applied Engineering (College of Engineering).

January 29, 2021Innovation, Student Research

A new Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ study finds individual female sea turtles lay numerous clutches of eggs in locations miles apart from each other to increase the chance that some of their offspring will survive (Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ St. Petersburg campus).

January 28, 2021Research

The center comes after receiving a $1.2 million grant from a national institution (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).

January 28, 2021Research

Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ’s new Center for Justice Research & Policy to tackle police reform, fairness in the justice system

The Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ announced the launch of an interdisciplinary center dedicated to serving Tampa Bay as the major training and knowledge hub for issues related to social and criminal justice (Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Newsroom).

January 28, 2021Research

Moffitt Cancer Center will create 1.4 million square feet of research lab/office, light industrial/manufacturing, general office, and clinical building space on a 775-acre campus in Pasco County, FL. The expanded clinical and research facilities will accommodate Moffitt’s growth in the Tampa Bay region of complementary third-party research, product manufacturing, clinical providers, and conferencing facilities. (Business Facilities).

January 26, 2021Health, Research