Dr. James Churilla, UNF professor and Exercise Science and Chronic Disease Graduate Program director, recently completed a study examining sedentary time (e.g., sitting) and heart failure. Full Story
The Gulf Coast Digital History Project was made possible through a grant from the National Parks Service. The project has digitized thousands of documents and images for students, teachers, or just plain history buffs to study and enjoy. Full Story
Florida Polytechnic University has been named one of the five best universities in the Southern states for tech students by Deep South Magazine. Full Story
Farming on Mars will be a lot harder than ‘The Martian’ made it seem. Growing plants in Red Planet soil will require adding nutrients and removing toxic chemicals. Full Story
Slated to open July 2021, construction has begun in the 54,000-sq-ft Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation that will help to provide the infrastructure to accelerate job growth, particularly in high-tech industries and other careers that require…
Piyush Jain, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, has been improving existing methods for testing COVID-19 samples from nasal swab. Full Story
Throughout the State University System, teams of professors and researchers are working on COVID-19 projects underwritten by the universities and in collaboration with private partners and government. Full Story
USF researchers have been awarded a $900,000, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to use artificial intelligence to fight mosquito-borne diseases Full Story
Collaboration with Brazilian researchers will focus on sharing datasets in real time for improved weather and climate change predictions Full Story
Researchers at Florida Polytechnic University are working on a way to identify ransomware before it can be downloaded by users. Full Story
Florida Tech on Friday broke ground on its Health Sciences Research Center, an $18 million structure to be filled with cutting-edge equipment, labs and learning spaces centered on biomedical engineering and sciences that will supercharge the university’s efforts to meet…
The University of North Florida School of Computing will develop a curriculum and train military veterans and first responders in health care cybersecurity systems. Full Story
Department of Physics professor Clifford Will has received the 2021 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society (APS) for “outstanding contributions to observational tests of general relativity with theories of gravitational waves, astrophysical black holes, and neutron stars.” Full Story
A new partnership between the State University System of Florida, the Florida Defense Alliance and the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) gives students real-world opportunities to develop innovative solutions to national security challenges, strengthening the talent pipeline for government and…
Using insight from companies in these industries, Aviation Week Network also ranked the university as the No. 2 preferred supplier in the U.S. Full Story