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Florida Blue has donated $100,000 and partnered with the ±«Óãtv to aid the school's efforts to track the novel coronavirus (Tampa Bay Business Journal \ paywall).

November 12, 2020Health, Innovation, Research

Florida Blue Supports ±«Óãtv Epidemiologist’s Innovative Efforts to Track COVID-19

±«Óãtv’s College of Public Health is awarded $100,000 by Florida Blue to support Professor Edwin Michael’s research to build a better tool for fighting the pandemic.

November 9, 2020Health, Innovation, Research

Virtual characters created at ±«Óãtv to teach emergent bilingual students English

A new research-based app developed at ±«Óãtv will soon be accessible to K-12 students and teachers in an effort to bolster a more multilingual society (±«Óãtv Newsroom).

November 9, 2020Research

A new study offers insight into designing antiviral drugs against COVID-19. The study, led by researchers at ±«Óãtv Health Morsani College of Medicine and the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, was published in Science Advances (Tunis Daily News).

November 7, 2020Health, Research

New research traces the origins of trench fever

First observed among British Expeditionary Forces in 1915, trench fever sickened an estimated 500,000 soldiers during World War I. Since then, the disease has become synonymous with the battlefield. But now, new research from an international team of scientists has uncovered evidence challenging this long-held belief (±«Óãtv Newsroom).

November 4, 2020Health, Research

Before she was a ±«Óãtv College of Nursing alumna, inventor Anna Hopen was the co-founder of the ±«Óãtv Young Innovator Competition (±«ÓãtvRI Newsroom).

November 3, 2020Innovation

Annual Conference Spotlights Life Sciences Growth and Propels Collaboration. The 2020 COVID-19 Innovation Award was presented to Dr. Yogi Goswami, the world-renowned Director of the Clean Energy Research Center at the ±«Óãtv, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, who has published twenty-two books and over 400 peer-reviewed scientific and technical papers on topics including indoor air quality (PR Newswire).

October 30, 2020Honors and Awards, Innovation, Research

±«Óãtv researchers are using 3D technology to map out the historic Jackson Rooming House in Tampa, after receiving a $1 million grant from the Vinik Family Foundation (TampaBayInno).

October 27, 2020Innovation, Research

±«Óãtv researchers release social media findings from statewide 2020 presidential election survey

Researchers with the ±«Óãtv have released the results from a statewide survey that measures Floridians’ use of Facebook to engage with the presidential election, as well as their attitudes regarding the political information they encounter online (±«Óãtv Newsroom).

October 27, 2020Research

High-profile homicide trial to showcase evidence recreated at ±«Óãtv

The digital reconstructions of three human skulls created at the ±«Óãtv are being used as evidence in a high-profile murder trial in California (±«Óãtv Newsroom).

October 26, 2020Research

In 2017, Morgan Holmes was hired to help launch ±«Óãtv’s Office of Corporate Partnerships. In October 2019, it launched the ±«Óãtv-Jabil Innovation Institute with an $800,000 philanthropic gift, a $200,000 research budget, a physical Jabil presence in the ±«Óãtv Research Park, and the Jabil Speaker Series with the Tampa Bay Technology Incubator at ±«Óãtv (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).

October 23, 2020Honors and Awards, Research

EPA administrator announces launch of ±«Óãtv-led project to address local revitalization efforts through workforce development

The ±«Óãtv Center for Brownfields Research & Redevelopment is launching a program designed to clean up contaminated neighborhoods while creating jobs for residents. In collaboration with the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, the Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training program will provide comprehensive training to East Tampa residents for full-time careers in environmental and brownfields remediation (±«Óãtv Newsroom).

October 22, 2020Research