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Researchers at the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app measure Floridian readiness for disasters and the impact of COVID-19 on home readiness. (Florida News Times).

June 22, 2021Research

Projections of US high-tide flooding show rapid increases and extreme months

Continued sea-level rise will exacerbate the issue where present, and many more locations will begin to experience recurrent high-tide flooding in the coming decades (College of Marine Science).

June 21, 2021Research

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app and University of Central Florida researchers have teamed up with Transtek International Group, hosted at the UCF business incubator. The entities will use their technology to monitor and collect data about the health of U.S. bridges. The eventual goal is to get a vehicle system that allows detection while driving, to avoid significant lane closures (TBBJ).

June 21, 2021Research

Researchers with TGH and Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app published a paper with what they’re learning about the treatment in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases (ABC Action News).

June 17, 2021Health, Research

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app secured nearly 130 patents last year, making it one of the top in the country and world (Business Observer).

June 17, 2021Innovation, Research

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app researchers release findings from statewide COVID-19 opinion survey regarding vaccine hesitancy and policy

Researchers with the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app School of Public Affairs have released results from a statewide survey that helps to better understand the factors associated with vaccine hesitancy and measures policy attitudes related to COVID-19 vaccines (Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Newsroom).

June 16, 2021Health, Research

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app was awarded 123 patents in 2020, a school record. The University of Florida and the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app ranked among the top 15 schools in the world to be granted U.S. utility patents last year, according to a new report (Tampa Bay Times).

June 16, 2021Innovation, Research

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app inventors post record patent numbers, ranking in the nation’s top 10 university producers

Annual ranking from the National Academy of Inventors and International Property Owners Association is a key measure of global innovation.

June 15, 2021Innovation

Could caves on other planets yield the secrets of the universe? Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Geoscientist Bogdan Onac and his international colleagues want to find out

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app School of Geosciences Professor Bogdan P. Onac documents millions of years of Earth’s natural history by exploring caves and lava tubes around the world. But now Onac along with dozens of fellow geoscientists, astronomers, astrobiologists, and robotics and artificial intelligence engineers are urging a new focus on caves on other planets as sites of untold discovery.

June 15, 2021Global Research

The Byrne lab goes West: three CMS students set sail on 45-day Pacific Ocean cruise

The major goal is to understand trends in the Pacific Ocean, with a specific focus on environmental parameters that influence ocean acidification — a major threat to ocean health, food security, economies, and more (Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app College of Marine Science).

June 15, 2021Research, Student Research

Over the course of a decade, scientists looked into a strange phenomenon found in Gulf waters near the BP oil rig after the spill, and 12 expeditions were also mounted to collect environmental data (WÔƶ¥¶Ä³¡app).

June 14, 2021Research

More than half the population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Case numbers are declining, but with nearly half of the people not yet vaccinated, it’s clear that trust is not there for many Americans. In an online forum, Trust & Vaccines, a panel of experts looked at what’s motivating people to get the vaccine and why others still are not (Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app St. Petersburg campus).

June 14, 2021Health, Research