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How a USF student’s personal battle with dengue helped develop mosquito-fighting AI
Farhat Azam is using artificial intelligence to help fight mosquito-borne illnesses. As a doctoral student at USF, she is helping develop a smart mosquito trap that can identify disease-carrying species and alert health officials in real time. Her work aims to protect communities from future outbreaks and save lives.
July 28, 2025Cyber/AI, Research and Innovation, Student Success
USF Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing hosts inaugural summer research program ahead of fall launch
College students spent the summer at the »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ’s Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing as part of the inaugural USF Bridge Coalition Program, a new initiative designed to expand research opportunities for undergraduate students from emerging research institutions.
July 25, 2025Research and Innovation, Student Success
Imaging the impossible: USF researcher pushing boundaries of what we can see
With support from NSF and DARPA, USF researcher John Murray-Bruce is developing new mathematical tools to improve how machines "see" in challenging conditions. The research will lay the foundation for imaging systems that don’t just see better, they see the unseen.
July 22, 2025Research and Innovation
USF awarded NSF grant to build platform for hands-on cybersecurity education
The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $268,000 to the »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ for a collaborative research project led by Robert Karam, an associate professor in USF’s Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.
July 8, 2025Research and Innovation
USF, TGH successfully perform world’s first recorded bloodless heart-liver transplant surgery
Transplant surgeons at USF Health and Tampa General Hospital have successfully performed the world’s first recorded bloodless heart-liver transplant surgery.
July 7, 2025Community Partnerships, Research and Innovation
Crying isn’t the only clue: USF researchers using AI to detect silent pain in newborns
Newborns in the NICU can’t tell us when they’re in pain, so a team of USF researchers is developing AI technology that can find out. The collaboration between medicine and engineering could change the future of neonatal care.
July 7, 2025Community Partnerships, Research and Innovation
A team of professors, musicians and students at USF is transforming complicated environmental data into powerful music compositions. After tackling critical issues like harmful algae blooms and red tide, the group has now composed music that highlights the environmental stressors affecting oysters in Florida.
July 2, 2025Research and Innovation
From USF to the pros: Meet grad student and soccer star Vivianne Bessette
While pursuing a master’s degree in exercise science at USF, Vivianne Bessette helped lead Tampa Bay Sun FC to a championship title as a standout defender in the team’s inaugural season.
July 1, 2025Student Success
Important funding for USF in final state budget
The »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ will receive significant funding in Florida’s 2025-26 state budget, supporting major initiatives in research, student success and campus development across all three campuses.
June 30, 2025University News
From classmates to soulmates: Three years, two degrees and one happily ever after
Jacqueline Benavides and Kyle Kelly met in 2022, the first year the online DBA program was offered at USF. The program gave them a path toward academic growth and, unexpectedly, toward each other.
June 30, 2025Campus Life
USF-developed technology analyzes facial expressions to identify childhood PTSD
Technology developed at the »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ offers a promising, privacy-preserving tool to help clinicians diagnose and track trauma in kids, especially those too young to express it.
June 30, 2025Research and Innovation
USF to advance its position as a leader in mental and behavioral health by creating a new research center named for Sen. Darryl Rouson
The Senator Darryl E. Rouson Center for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Research at USF will conduct rigorous research to advance the scientific understanding of the relationship between substance abuse and mental health issues, including improving treatment outcomes and reducing the societal impacts of substance abuse and mental health conditions.
June 25, 2025University News