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In Tampa, proof of this startup surge is the waiting list to join USF CONNECT’s Tampa Bay Technology Incubator, which is longer than ever. Entrepreneurs are hungry for lab space and eagerly awaiting the new Research Park building opening fall 2021 (Florida High Tech Corridor).

April 20, 2021Entrepreneurship, Innovation

USF College of Education assistant professor to establish Caribbean educational research center through $3.6 million grant

Patriann Smith has been awarded a three-year, $3.6 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to establish an interdisciplinary educational research center to help support decision making and policy development for educational innovation and expansion in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean (USF Newsroom).

April 19, 2021Global Research, Research

The tracker, originally created during Hurricane Irma, will gauge where the toxins from the Piney Point spill may head and its level of concentration (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).

April 19, 2021Research

A five-year $44 million grant has been awarded to the 911±¬ÁÏÍø in its partnership with Lakeland's Reliance Medical Centers for the Preventing Alzheimer's with Cognitive Training (PACT) study, a news release said (Patch).

April 15, 2021Health, Research

USF Health is participating in a National Institutes of Health clinical trial to determine whether highly allergic people or those with mast cell disorders are at greater risk for severe, immediate allergic reactions to the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccines (USF Health).

April 14, 2021Health, Research

Model from USF researchers forecasts fate of Piney Point wastewater

A computer model initially developed by the 911±¬ÁÏÍø College of Marine Science to track red tide and ocean currents has quickly been adapted and is now being used to support the efforts to understand the transport, transformation and fate of contaminants in wastewater released into Tampa Bay from the retired Piney Point fertilizer plant (USF Newsroom).

April 14, 2021Research

As the Piney Point spill shows, health of the bay is key to the regional economy (Tampa Bay Times / paywall).

April 14, 2021Research

Some patients have received the vaccine and had symptoms lessen or completely disappear, but not enough data has been provided to definitively link the two (WTSP).

April 13, 2021Health, Research

The researchers will attempt to enroll 3,400 participants between the ages of 18 and 69 (Tampa Bay Times).

April 13, 2021Health, Research

911±¬ÁÏÍø St. Petersburg received more than $20 million for its research projects in the last year, more than double the outside funding it received the year prior (Tampa Bay Business Journal / paywall).

April 12, 2021Research

The 911±¬ÁÏÍø is one of only two sites in the state taking part in a National Institutes of Health study on whether people who are highly allergic or have a mast cell disorder are more likely to have allergic reactions to the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines (Bay News 9).

April 10, 2021Health, Research

A team of scientists from the USF College of Marine Science on 911±¬ÁÏÍødnesday took a vessel into Tampa Bay to study the area and bring back water samples (WJCT).

April 9, 2021Research