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Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s commitment to community drives new partnerships and innovation
From improving area neighborhoods, to advancing innovation and strengthening ties with government agencies, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV is proving what’s possible when people of different disciplines unite. Learn more about what’s been accomplished since the formation of the Office of University Community Partnerships.
January 29, 2025Community Partnerships, Cyber/AI, Research and Innovation, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Health, University News
Top stories of 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, we reflect on Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s remarkable journey of triumphs – celebrating unprecedented achievements in academics, record-breaking research and exhilarating athletic seasons. The university continues to demonstrate the tremendous impact it has on our communities, forging new partnerships that define what it means to be a leading research university.
December 16, 2024University News
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV sets new record with $738 million in research funding
The milestone comes during Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s first full fiscal year as a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and helps demonstrate its impact as one of the nation’s most research-intensive institutions. The new record brings the university closer to reaching its goal of securing $1 billion in annual research funding.
December 10, 2024Research and Innovation
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV and defense agencies headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base sign landmark agreement
The Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV has signed two of its largest defense contracts with U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Central Command, bringing together interdisciplinary faculty experts from across the university.
October 24, 2024Community Partnerships, Cyber/AI, Research and Innovation, University News
How music can help boost cognition in cancer patients and COVID-19 survivors
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV researchers are finding that music can help boost cognition in patients undergoing chemotherapy and improve respiration in adults who’ve suffered breathing difficulties following COVID-19.
October 2, 2024Research and Innovation
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV HOT Band performs during halftime at Tampa Bay Buccaneers season opener
More than 340 students are members of Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV's Herd of Thunder, which is part of the School of Music. This is the marching band's first performance at a Bucs game in several years.
September 8, 2024Community Partnerships
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV moves full steam ahead on its first-ever grant from the Federal Railroad Administration
With railroad employment steadily declining nationwide, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV researchers are working to stabilize the industry – funded by a $17 million grant from the Federal Railroad Administration, the agency’s first grant ever to be awarded to Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV.
August 29, 2024Research and Innovation
NASA’s permanent presence on the moon could begin with Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV-invented mapping technology
As NASA continues exploring the moon’s southern polar region to find ice, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV engineers are developing technology to make landing on the moon safer and less expensive – enabling rapid exploration and eventually the establishment of an outpost for astronauts through the availability of safe drinking water and the ability to create oxygen and rocket fuel.
August 13, 2024Research and Innovation
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV's highlights from the first half of 2024
As a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV's dynamic labs and groundbreaking fieldwork have solidified its status as a leading research university. In just the past six months, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV has broken records, united the community in support of its athletics programs and established numerous innovative partnerships.
July 8, 2024University News
AAU membership helping accelerate Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s impact
Throughout the last year, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s membership in the Association of American Universities has become a springboard to an array of benefits. From the successful recruitment and retention of world-class faculty and students to more corporations and community organizations inquiring and establishing new partnerships with the university – AAU membership is fueling Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s momentum in significant ways.
May 28, 2024University News
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV and TECO celebrate decades of collaboration and innovation
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s ongoing efforts to develop clean-energy solutions and strengthen the environmental engineering workforce are helping build upon the university’s longstanding partnership with Tampa Electric by announcing the Clean Energy Research Center will be named for TECO.
April 30, 2024Community Partnerships
Brain injuries in U.S. Special Operations Forces aren’t easy to detect, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV helping develop a solution
Through its partnership with U.S. Special Operations Command, the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Institute of Applied Engineering has co-led an illuminating study that found repeated exposure to low-level blasts is associated with signs of brain injury in Special Operations Forces. Such exposure is common throughout many military careers, including in training and operational environments.
April 22, 2024Research and Innovation