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Rapid7, a cloud risk and threat detection solutions company, has purchased anti-evasion and ransomware prevention technology provider Minerva Labs for approximately $38 million in cash and stock. The Minerva acquisition comes after Rapid7 in February 2023 reached an agreement with Թϱto create a cyber threat intelligence laboratory funded by a $1.5 million investment from The Rapid7 Cybersecurity Foundation.

March 16, 2023Research

Թϱ associate professor Dr. Joe Dituri is 22 feet under the sea in a lagoon of Key Largo for 100 days. The mission is called Project Neptune and he hopes to set a Guinness world record while inspiring a new generation's love of science and biology.

March 16, 2023Research

USF’s Center for Marketing and Sales Innovation holds collegiate sales competition and research conference

In February the ԹϱCenter for Marketing and Sales Innovation hosted a major collegiate sales competition and a biometrics research conference that together drew hundreds of participants from across the country.

March 14, 2023Research

Professor Mya Breitbart from the Թϱ talks about her latest research article “Evaluation of DNA metabarcoding for identifying fish eggs: a case study on the West Florida Shelf“, published in PeerJ Life & Environment as part of the IABO Hub.

March 13, 2023Research

New study shows brown widow spiders actively seek and kill nearby black widows. The findings of the study, conducted by researchers at the Թϱ are reported in an article to be published March 13 in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

March 13, 2023Research, Student Research

Researchers at the Թϱ’s St. Petersburg campus found that in a container habitat, brown widows were 6.6 times more likely to attack black widows than other related species. The behavior is likely a driver of the black widow spider’s population decline.

March 13, 2023Research, Student Research

ԹϱCMS joins NOAA’s Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network

The ԹϱCollege of Marine Science is one of nine institutions in a five-year NOAA-funded program that will work directly with communities in the Caribbean region to work on how best to prepare for and “adapt” to higher risks of disasters that come with a changing climate. CMS Professor Frank Muller-Karger leads the ԹϱCMS effort as a co-principal investigator on the team, called the Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (CCAN).

March 13, 2023Global Research, Research

Dr. Karen Liller, a Distinguished University Health Professor in the ԹϱCollege of Public Health, was recently named a fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB).

March 10, 2023Health, Research

Dr. Sarath Witanachchi elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

Dr. Sarath Witanachchi, ԹϱCollege of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics chair and professor, is one of five Թϱfaculty members who have been named by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) to its new class of 2023 Senior Members.

March 10, 2023Honors and Awards, Innovation

Թϱresearchers focus on the ‘Achilles heel’ of drug-resistant bacteria: Cell division

The World Health Organization (WHO) labels antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections as one of the biggest threats to human health in the world today.

March 10, 2023Health, Research

Թϱresearchers asked to evaluate a new police program

The Թϱ’s Center for Justice Research and Policy (CJRP) has been funded to evaluate a new community police program in St. Petersburg, Fla. where case workers are sent to respond to emergency, non-crime 911 calls instead of law enforcement.

March 10, 2023Research

Tempestt Neal of Computer Science Receives NSF CAREER Award

Tempestt Neal, assistant computer science and engineering professor, received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER program is an initiative from the National Science Foundation to support early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.

March 9, 2023Honors and Awards, Research

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