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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 ±«Óãtv 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

±«Óãtv welcomes Super Bowl LV to Tampa

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

February 3, 2021Health

A preclinical study by a ±«Óãtv Health (±«Óãtv 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 (±«Óãtv Health).

February 2, 2021Health, Research

Cutting-edge innovations to fight disease, enhance learning win ±«Óãtv’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 (±«ÓãtvRI Newsroom).

February 1, 2021Honors and Awards, Innovation, Research

±«Óãtv researchers say the widely held perception that the Super Bowl is a magnet for sex trafficking is largely unfounded (±«Óãtv Newsroom).

February 1, 2021Research

$3 million has been gifted to the ±«Óãtv Foundation to benefit students in the College of Marine Science.

January 31, 2021Research

Satellites engineered by ±«Óãtv 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 ±«Óãtv Institute of Applied Engineering (College of Engineering).

January 29, 2021Innovation, Student Research

A new ±«Óãtv 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 (±«Óãtv 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

±«Óãtv’s new Center for Justice Research & Policy to tackle police reform, fairness in the justice system

The ±«Óãtv 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 (±«Óãtv 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