The first round of major funding initiatives for the ARRA has just passed (April 27) and we are now ramping up for the next cycle. In preparation for these opportunities, our Recovery Act Teams will be scheduling times to visit with the colleges, campuses, and units.

A $43 million clean technologies manufacturing facility planned for the University of South Florida is “shovel ready” and one of the institution’s top priorities for stimulus funding.

University of South Florida criminology professor Lorie Fridell is part of a team funded by the National Institute of Justice to evaluate the current state of American policing. NIJ awarded $1.8 million to the University of Illinois at Chicago for the project, and USF and Northeastern University are the two major university partners.

A University of South Florida researcher has found contamination from PCBs, the residue of long-ago used DDT, and common flame retardant chemical in the brains and cerebrospinal fluid of marine mammals in a new study which raises concerns about the potential impact hazardous chemicals have on ocean life.

The University of South Florida’s Power Center for Utility Explorations and Progress Energy Florida have been selected by Florida’s Energy and Climate Commission to build the largest and most comprehensive smart grid in the Southeast, serving at least 5,000 customers on the west side of St. Petersburg and St. Pete Beach.

No day at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo is complete without a visit to the elephants and a jaunt on the sky ride, but in coming months zoo visitors also will come away with some new found knowledge of Smart Grid technology and solar power from a cutting-edge project created by the University of South Florida and Tampa Electric.

For even the smartest of people in the world, their task would have been a tough one.

But this group of engineering students from USF has mastered space flight more than a few times by launching a weather balloon off the ground—up, up, and away to the outer fringe of earth's atmosphere.

Voda LLC and Harbour Mastery Inc. are combining their technology to create a package for security, environmental and compliance monitoring of waterways.

The Office of Research and Innovation has established the USF Academy of Inventors to recognize the contributions of scientist-inventors across all disciplines of the USF community.

The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council has awarded the University of South Florida Research Park the Charles A. McIntosh, Jr. Award of Distinction for its contribution to the local economy and for creating an exceptional environment for emerging businesses.

USF CONNECT has awarded TBE Group, Inc. matching research funds through the Florida High Tech Corridor Matching Grants Research Program for its project “Brownfields Mapping & Analysis in the East Tampa Neighborhood.”

Effective July 1, 2009, USF postdoctoral scholars will be eligible for benefits that include medical,
dental, life and disability insurance, retirement plans and paid time off.

This Fall (2009) semester, Graduate Assistants in good standing with a job code 9181, 9182, 9183, 9184, 9185, and 9550 could be eligible for a health insurance subsidy.

Older people who are thinner or are losing weight quickly are at a higher risk of developing dementia, especially if they started out overweight or obese, a new study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of South Florida and the University of Washington found.

Astronaut-physician Dr. Jay Buckey Jr, toured the Hyperbaric laboratory of USF Health's Dr. Jay Dean during a visit here May 6. Dr. Buckey was a payload specialist for the Neurolab Space Mission, which provided an indepth look at how a basic natural force, gravity, can profoundly affect the nervous system.

The University of South Florida and the U.S. Geological Survey together are creating Florida's first scientific research project specifically dedicated to monitoring the effects of climate change through phenology: the science of studying plants and animals in various phases, such as seeding, budding, migration, nesting and fruit production

Cheryl L. Byers, MHA, CIP has joined USF’s Office of Research & Innovation as director of Research Integrity & Compliance.

At this year’s 2009 10th annual WAMICON conference, organizers announced a new annual award. The Rudy Henning Distinguished Mentoring Award created to recognize individuals who have performed exemplary service encouraging students and/or mentoring young engineers to advance careers in the areas of RF/Microwave and/or Wireless Engineering.

Professor of Jazz Studies Chuck Owen is awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, considered to be one of the most prestigious academic recognitions in the world.

Two students at USF’s College of Marine Science have won top awards for their presentations at national and international conferences while the Marine Science Advisory Committee won the 2008-09 Outstanding Student Organization Award at the Celebration of University Leadership Ceremony.

USF St. Petersburg Professor Thomas Smith, Ph.D, was selected for a Fellowship in Terrorism Studies by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

A world-renowned literature scholar is honored as the 2009 Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida. Dr. John Patrick William Rogers was selected from the university’s top faculty for this annual recognition, which is USF’s highest faculty honor for scholarly achievements as a researcher and instructor. Dr. Rogers will have his title formally bestowed at the Fall 2009 Faculty Honors and Awards Ceremony.

Alex Levine, PhD, associate professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a 2009 Fulbright Fellowship to visit the University of Buenos Aires this summer.

The recipients of the spring 2009 Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program internal grants are Adriana Iamnitchi (Computer Science & Engineering) and Dmitry Goldgof (Computer Science & Engineering).

Join the Office of Research & Innovation in a weeklong celebration of USF’s Research.

June 3 - 4, 2009

LEARN FROM THE BEST!

No one ever said being an entrepreneur was easy, but they also never said you have to do it all on your own. Learn from some of the best at the 2009 Entrepreneurship Conference presented by STAR Technology Enterprise Center.

June 10, 2009
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

With over 25 years in Marketing, Communications and Media Production, Martin Grobisen will share insights gained from his most recent position as the Marketing Executive with the Biometric Security Software startup Ceelox.