A research team from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine has developed a simplified COVID-19 testing protocol that offers a distinct advantage over the standard viral or universal transport medium (VTM).
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.
Florida Polytechnic University has been named one of the five best universities in the Southern states for tech students by Deep South Magazine.
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 high levels of training and skill.
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 industry.
Using insight from companies in these industries, Aviation Week Network also ranked the university as the No. 2 preferred supplier in the U.S.
The University of North Florida and Eckerd College received a $150,000 award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a Marine Debris Program to reduce single-use plastic consumption and foster long-term pro-environmental behaviors among undergraduates in coastal communities.
According to a workforce estimator dashboard from George Washington University, Miami-Dade County needs about 15,000 contact tracers – if not more.
Governor Ron DeSantis announced more than $5 million in grant funding will be awarded to the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (FAU's Harbor Branch) as part of Florida’s continued efforts to protect water quality and the Sunshine State’s natural resources.
UCF was recently ranked No. 5 in the United States and No. 29 in the world for transportation science and technology, according to ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020.
The University of Florida is the most productive large university in the country at leveraging its research funding into new companies, new jobs and new ideas, according to a report released last week by the George W. Bush Institute and the Opus Faveo Innovation Development consulting firm.
Nirmalkumar Patel, a University of North Florida physics associate lecturer, received a U.S. Patent for his sensor invention that detects toxic vapors and odors in hazardous gases, industrial toxic gases and other chemical agents.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Collaboration with Brazilian researchers will focus on sharing datasets in real time for improved weather and climate change predictions
Researchers at Florida Polytechnic University are working on a way to identify ransomware before it can be downloaded by users.
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."
The discovery serves as a connector, the missing link, between known categories of black holes: smaller black holes known as stellar mass black holes, and the largest black holes known as supermassive black holes.
Pregnancy, restaurants and first responders are among the topics in a research effort topping $1 million.
When Feng-Hao Liu was recently awarded the National Science Foundation’s coveted early career award for his proposed novel methodology and research, which will potentially impact the future of post-quantum cryptography, ultimately ensuring the future security of computers.