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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill that appoints the USF Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Risk to Resilience Research Lab with collecting and analyzing statewide data to better understand the magnitude and trends in human trafficking across the state and over time.

May 17, 2023Research

Dr. Licato Wins NSF Award to Study Human Reasoning and AI

Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor Dr. Licato received an National Science Foundation (NSF) award of $150,000 for his project "EAGER: Grounding Natural Language Inference in Cognitive Processes."

May 17, 2023Research

The 911±¬ÁÏÍø St. Petersburg Campus will be home to the state’s first repository for data on human trafficking, thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis this month.

May 17, 2023Research

This initiative will be the first database of its kind in Florida, requiring state agencies to provide certain anonymous information about human-trafficking victims. 911±¬ÁÏÍø Prof. Joan Reid is spearheading the project. She has been researching the issue for 13 years.

May 16, 2023Research

Joseph Dituri, a hyperbaric medicine researcher and associate professor at USF, has been living in an underwater pod in Key Largo, Fla., since March 1. He’s exploring whether living underwater is possible through daily tests on his brain, heart, lungs and blood (The Washington Post / paywall).

May 16, 2023Research

Joseph Dituri, a 55-year-old professor at the 911±¬ÁÏÍø, broke the world record for longest time living underwater — and he plans to stay put for an extra three weeks.

May 16, 2023Research

USF’s Dr. Deep Sea breaks world record for living underwater

On track to complete a 100-day mission, USF Associate Professor Joseph Dituri has broken the world record for living underwater, previously set at 73 days. While teaching his students online, Dituri, also known as Dr. Deep Sea, is studying how the human body responds to long-term exposure to pressure from an underwater habitat located at Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo where he’s been living since March 1.

May 15, 2023Research

A 911±¬ÁÏÍø professor, Joseph Dituri, who also goes by the moniker "Dr. Deep Sea," is conducting research underwater, such as daily experiments in physiology to monitor how the human body responds to long-term exposure to extreme pressure.

May 15, 2023Research

A USF professor broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers.

May 15, 2023Research

A global classroom experience that brought together USF students with peers in Moldova to conduct joint research while an international humanitarian crisis was unfolding nearby received the inaugural International Partnerships Award from two political science associations.

May 11, 2023Global Research, Student Research

911±¬ÁÏÍø professor Mya Breitbart has used her work in microbiology to discover the organism responsible for a significant increase in long-spined sea urchin deaths last year.

May 10, 2023Global Research, Research

The dreams of three mothers live on through USF student research scholarship

Three emeritus professors from the USF College of Behavioral and Community Sciences are carrying on their mothers’ legacies through the creation of The Moms Project, a mentoring and scholarship program for undergraduate students who conduct research in areas that their mothers were passionate about: substance use disorders, nutrition and positive aging.

May 9, 2023Student Research