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Research into AI and its effects on society are being studied in the Tampa Bay area. At the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ there is the Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X, which is a university-wide research and education center for AI. Professors there are researching AI and working with local leaders in healthcare, finance, biology, and transportation.

May 25, 2023Research

New ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏProvost is a Noted Computer Science and Engineering Educator and Researcher

The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ’s standing as a leading research university was boosted by appointing a prominent computer science and engineering researcher and educator as its new provost and executive vice president of academic affairs.

May 22, 2023Research

USF's College of Education wants to ensure students know how to utilize the latest technology through a new Emerging Technology Lab being developed on the St. Petersburg campus.

May 18, 2023Innovation, Research, Student Research

Past climate change to blame for Antarctica’s giant underwater landslides

An international team of scientists found weak biologically rich layers of sediments hundreds of metres beneath the seafloor which crumbled as oceans warmed and ice sheets declined.

May 18, 2023Global Research, Research

On the hunt for Amberjacks from Florida to North Carolina

The Camera-Based Assessment Survey System (C-BASS) team recently completed a 21-day research cruise aboard Florida Institute of Oceanography’s (FIO) vessel, R/V Weatherbird II, in search of Greater Amberjack.

May 17, 2023Research

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill that appoints the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏTrafficking 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 ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ 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. ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ 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 ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ, 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, ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏAssociate 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