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Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV researchers use neuromarketing tools to assist Baycare Health System, national public health agencies to assess the impact of COVID-19 messaging
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV has pooled its expertise and resources in order to help influence the effectiveness of public health messaging related to COVID-19.
March 2, 2021Research and Innovation
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Engineering Expo celebrates 49th year with virtual events
Since 1973, the College of Engineering has hosted an elaborate science fair for K-12 students. Amid an unprecedented pandemic, the longtime tradition continued in a virtual format, helping inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers and mathematicians.
March 1, 2021University News
Florida House Speaker Chris Sprowls visited the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s St. Petersburg campus to announce a broad legislative package that would designate $100 million per year to offset the effects of flooding and sea level rise in the state.
February 26, 2021University News
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Vice President of Athletics Michael Kelly and Head Football Coach Jeff Scott announced plans for $25 million in Athletics facility improvements and new construction slated to begin this spring and summer that will take Athletics facilities into a new era.
February 25, 2021Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Athletics
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV-based archaeologists help uncover lost African American cemetery in Clearwater
More than two dozen grave shafts have been discovered at a lost, but not forgotten African American cemetery in Clearwater. Among the team of researchers who took part in the effort are Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV-based archaeologists helping to give a community the chance to memorialize those still at rest under layers of dirt, time and development.
February 25, 2021Research and Innovation
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV College of Education receives Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology
The Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV College of Education has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)’s Best Practice Award for Innovative Use of Technology for its cybersecurity education initiatives that provide teachers and aspiring educators with knowledge and skills in cybersecurity awareness and training, preparing them for roles in various educational settings.
February 25, 2021Honors and Awards
The Global Virus Network, a coalition comprising the world’s foremost experts in every class of virus causing disease in humans and some animals, today announced that Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Health, at the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV in Tampa, Fla., will serve as GVN’s Southeast United States Regional Headquarters.
February 23, 2021COVID-19, Research and Innovation, University News
Will Weatherford elected vice chair of the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Board of Trustees
The Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Board of Trustees voted unanimously to elect Will Weatherford as the board’s new vice chair. He will serve a two-year term in the role.
February 23, 2021University News
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV joins national business leaders in co-organizing Florida supply chain event, includes discussion on impacts of COVID-19 vaccine distribution
The Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s Muma College of Business is partnering with various industry giants to co-organize the 2021 Florida Supply Chain Summit. The virtual event, slated for March 9 from 9 a.m. – 5:15 p.m., is especially timely as consumers’ eyes have been opened to significant shocks to the global supply chain during the pandemic.
February 22, 2021COVID-19, University News
The Jackson Rooming House was once a haven for black entertainers, athletes, teachers, clergymen, and visitors to Tampa, Florida. Located a block west of Tampa Union Station along Nebraska Avenue at 835 Zack Street — currently 851 East Zack St. — it is just a short walk east of the once-thriving Central Avenue business and entertainment district that was prominent during the era of Jim Crow racial segregation.
February 19, 2021Campus Life
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV epidemiologists analyze the prevalence of COVID-19 variants in Tampa Bay
Researchers in the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV College of Public Health are conducting genomic sequencing of positive pooled samples to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 variants in Tampa Bay. This data will be utilized to project how emergent variants could influence the course of the pandemic.
February 19, 2021COVID-19, Research and Innovation
The Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV has received a $1 million gift to fund research to detect and prevent severe lung scarring. Philanthropist Timothy Ubben made the gift to support research led by his doctor, Jose D. Herazo-Maya, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Health’s newly appointed associate chief of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine.
February 17, 2021Research and Innovation, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Health, University News