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Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app: A Preeminent Research University

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app’s Student Green Energy Fund projects make a lasting impact on campus sustainability

Since its launch, the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app program has powered more than 60 projects, from rooftop solar panels and EV charging stations to solar umbrellas with built-in USB ports – driving sustainability one innovation at a time.

April 3, 2025Campus Life, Student Success

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app: A Preeminent Research University

From classroom to kickoff: How Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app’s partnership with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is boosting career readiness

Through a dynamic partnership between the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, students in Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app’s Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management Program gain hands-on experience with an NFL franchise. Opportunities include fellowships, mentorships, marketing presentations and networking events with industry executives.

March 31, 2025Community Partnerships, Student Success

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New sargassum system takes aim at a troublesome seaweed

Scientists at Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app’s College of Marine Science are enhancing how they track and predict Sargassum blooms, creating a cutting-edge detection and forecasting system. Sargassum washes ashore each spring and summer, and when it decays, it emits a foul, rotting odor, harming marine life and disrupting local communities.

March 28, 2025Community Partnerships, Research and Innovation

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app: A Preeminent Research University

How a simple chair in the 1980s led to Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app’s global leadership in AI

In the 1980s, a visionary professor of computer science and engineering at Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app joined forces with his ambitious doctoral student to explore artificial intelligence when the technology still in its infancy. Their work paved the way for the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.

March 27, 2025Cyber/AI, Research and Innovation, Student Success

Grid of headshots of 11 Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app faculty members who were named AAAS Fellows

Eleven Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app faculty among 2024 class of Fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

This is the third largest cohort from any university in the nation. Recognition as an AAAS Fellow is a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community.

March 27, 2025Honors and Awards, Research and Innovation

The Life in Media Survey, led by a team of researchers at the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app, surveyed more than 1,500 tweens in Florida. Findings will help inform a 25-year national study that will track young people’s digital media use and wellbeing into adulthood.

March 25, 2025Research and Innovation

Bryan Hodgson comes to Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app from Arkansas State, where he spent two seasons as head coach. He guided the Red Wolves to two of the most successful seasons in program history, with back-to-back 20-win seasons.

March 25, 2025Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Athletics

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app student shares her excitement over matching with her medical school

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Health Morsani College of Medicine students celebrate ‘magical’ Match Day

Nearly 200 Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app students joined thousands of medical students across the country in simultaneously learning where they will spend the next chapter of their careers training in their chosen specialties. For these students, the moment marked the culmination of years of rigorous study, clinical training and a highly competitive application process.

March 24, 2025Student Success, Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Health

Since opening in 2011, the School of Music's Concert Hall has become a musical gem for both Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app and the Tampa Bay region. The only thing it was missing was an identity. Now, thanks to the generosity of Pete and Cynthia Zinober, it has one.

March 20, 2025University News

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Viruses identified in red tide blooms for the first time

In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers used viral metagenomics to identify several viruses — including one new viral species — present in blooms of K. brevis, more commonly known as red tide.

March 20, 2025Research and Innovation

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Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app International Business Forum explores the promise and peril of AI

Leading thinkers in technology, trade and key industries gathered with an audience of more than 250 to contemplate the many ways artificial intelligence will shape the future.

March 19, 2025Cyber/AI

More than 12 percent of young people aged 15 to 24 in Pinellas County are no longer in school or working. A collaboration involving Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app researchers will connect with disengaged youth to establish pathways into the workforce.

March 18, 2025Community Partnerships, Research and Innovation

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