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Environmental testing in residence halls a key element of ±«Óătv’s COVID-19 mitigation efforts
Every week, ±«Óătv Housing & Residential Education (HRE) staff swab hundreds of high-touch areas across the university’s housing facilities. The effort is part of ±«Óătv’s multi-faceted approach to monitoring and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
October 13, 2020University News
Hispanic heritage is an integral part of Florida history. Within Tampa, Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Colombian, Spanish, and Puerto Rican cultures and influences have shaped the city. In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we want to recognize some of the icons that have contributed to shaping our city through business, government, education, and sports.
October 7, 2020University News
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. The elderly population is at a greater risk of death than younger individuals, as many are reliant on others to keep them safe.
October 6, 2020Research and Innovation
Keeping the performing arts performing during a pandemic
As theaters and performance halls remain shuttered due to COVID-19, a ±«Óătv dance professor is exploring new ways to connect the public to the art of movement.
October 6, 2020University News
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 ±«Óătv are trying to determine in a new study funded by an NSF Rapid Response grant.
October 5, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
A record 19 ±«Óătv 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 ±«Óătv’s top faculty researchers.
October 5, 2020Honors and Awards, University News
Helping community college students take the road to a four-year degree
A new and inspiring project to help rural, non-traditional Polk State College students attain an Associate of Arts degree at PSC and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering at ±«Óătv's Tampa campus recently received a $3 million National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics grant.
October 1, 2020Research and Innovation
The ±«Óătv ranks #2 nationally for undergraduate students earning the Peace Corps Prep certificate
In collaboration with the U.S. Peace Corps, the ±«Óătv awarded 49 Prep certificates to the graduating class of 2020. Currently more than 200 students are enrolled in the ±«Óătv Peace Corps Prep program across the university’s three campuses.
September 30, 2020University News
±«Óătv 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 ±«Óătv a $1 million grant to research new methods for preventing and controlling harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Lake Okeechobee.
September 30, 2020Research and Innovation
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.
September 30, 2020Research and Innovation
±«Óătv-developed technology named semi-finalist for XPRIZE in COVID-19 testing
A ±«Óătv interdisciplinary team is working to develop an inexpensive and non-invasive “electronic nose” that can detect virus in an infected person.
September 28, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
±«Óătv researchers find death counts fail to capture full mortality effects of COVID-19
More than 200,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19. Some argue that statistic is inaccurate due to inconsistencies in how deaths are being reported. But researchers from the ±«Óătv claim that even if those deaths have been correctly measured, the number doesn’t fully convey the true mortality effects of COVID-19.
September 23, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation