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USF's College of Education wants to ensure students know how to utilize the latest technology through a new Emerging Technology Lab being developed on the St. Petersburg campus.

May 18, 2023Innovation, Research, Student Research

Past climate change to blame for Antarctica’s giant underwater landslides

An international team of scientists found weak biologically rich layers of sediments hundreds of metres beneath the seafloor which crumbled as oceans warmed and ice sheets declined.

May 18, 2023Global Research, Research

On the hunt for Amberjacks from Florida to North Carolina

The Camera-Based Assessment Survey System (C-BASS) team recently completed a 21-day research cruise aboard Florida Institute of Oceanography’s (FIO) vessel, R/V Weatherbird II, in search of Greater Amberjack.

May 17, 2023Research

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill that appoints the USF Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Risk to Resilience Research Lab with collecting and analyzing statewide data to better understand the magnitude and trends in human trafficking across the state and over time.

May 17, 2023Research

Dr. Licato Wins NSF Award to Study Human Reasoning and AI

Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor Dr. Licato received an National Science Foundation (NSF) award of $150,000 for his project "EAGER: Grounding Natural Language Inference in Cognitive Processes."

May 17, 2023Research

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ St. Petersburg Campus will be home to the state’s first repository for data on human trafficking, thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis this month.

May 17, 2023Research

This initiative will be the first database of its kind in Florida, requiring state agencies to provide certain anonymous information about human-trafficking victims. Â鶹ÊÓƵ Prof. Joan Reid is spearheading the project. She has been researching the issue for 13 years.

May 16, 2023Research

Joseph Dituri, a hyperbaric medicine researcher and associate professor at USF, has been living in an underwater pod in Key Largo, Fla., since March 1. He’s exploring whether living underwater is possible through daily tests on his brain, heart, lungs and blood (The Washington Post / paywall).

May 16, 2023Research

Joseph Dituri, a 55-year-old professor at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, broke the world record for longest time living underwater — and he plans to stay put for an extra three weeks.

May 16, 2023Research

USF’s Dr. Deep Sea breaks world record for living underwater

On track to complete a 100-day mission, USF Associate Professor Joseph Dituri has broken the world record for living underwater, previously set at 73 days. While teaching his students online, Dituri, also known as Dr. Deep Sea, is studying how the human body responds to long-term exposure to pressure from an underwater habitat located at Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo where he’s been living since March 1.

May 15, 2023Research

A Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor, Joseph Dituri, who also goes by the moniker "Dr. Deep Sea," is conducting research underwater, such as daily experiments in physiology to monitor how the human body responds to long-term exposure to extreme pressure.

May 15, 2023Research

A USF professor broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers.

May 15, 2023Research