ResearchOne - USF Research Week, will take place in the second week of October, from 11th to 15th (Monday - Friday), 2010. There are great variety of activities throughout the week. Please read some highlights of the events.

Two University of South Florida stem cell researchers propose creating an independent national “Stem Cell Research Ethics Consortium” to provide better guidance on stem cell issues for regulatory agencies, law makers and policy makers.

Dr. Pei-Sung Lin and his team members from the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) are working closely with Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Safety Office to finalize subgrants totaling 1.85 million dollars.

The University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee (USFSM) was approved for a $250,000 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration that will allow the university to conduct a healthcare needs assessment of Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte Counties over the next year.

The Florida High Tech Corridor Council earned national acclaim from the State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI) as one of four winnerscelebrating the highest achievements in Technology-Based Economic Development (TBED).

Modelithics, Inc. has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a new class of miniaturized instruments.

Light rail station designs created by USF architecture students will be on display at community outreach meetings sponsored by Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has lifted the suspension of the receipt, processing, review and awarding of applications and proposals involving human embryonic stems cells. The notice (NOT-OD-10-136) lifting the suspensions was issued on Friday, September 10, 2010 in response to the temporary administrative stay of the preliminary injunction issued on August 23, 2010.

In a survey of more than 1,200 South Florida immigrants, USF Sociology professors Elizabeth Aranda and Elizabeth Vaquera took a novel approach at examining what experts call “incorporation” or assimilation among immigrants.

“The RESTORE LIVES Center will be a research hub for collaborative and cross-disciplinary studies that address a range of emotional and physical difficulties faced by military members,” said Dr. Kevin Kip, the principal investigator for the center grant. “It is part of the larger veterans reintegration strategy at USF.”

University of South Florida neuroscientists have been awarded a $400,000 federal grant to study ways of protecting the developing fetal brain from the damaging effects of maternal infections, a suspected cause for certain types of autism.

Jeffrey Ryan, USF geology professor will partner with colleagues from College of Business and Marine Science planning Climate Change Education project funded by the National Science Foundation.

USF physicist Xiaomei Jiang's invention was unveiled on campus in a public demonstration of the new SolarWindow™ technology, the first-of-its-kind, small-scale prototype capable of generating electricity.

Associate Professor Daniel Lende, from the Department of Anthropology, is one of 13 scientists and journalists selected to participate in the Public Library of Science Blogs, a new network for discussing science in public that covers topics in research, culture and publishing.

The largest grassroots solar event in history will take place Saturday, October 2, with USF's Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) hosting Tampa Bay's "National Tour of Solar Homes."

ResearchOne - USF Research Week, will take place in the second week of October, from 11th to 15th (Monday - Friday), 2010. There are great variety of activities throughout the week. Please read some highlights of the events.