While the world awaits a vaccine for the coronavirus, Dr. Yogi Goswami, Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Clean Energy Research Center at USF, is among the innovators who seek outside-the-box solutions to curb the ongoing global health crisis.
A $70,000 Transformative Grant awarded by the Gilead COMPASS Initiative will enable a new program in the Tampa Bay Area that aims to tackle the stigma surrounding an HIV diagnosis, with the goal of reducing new diagnoses through preventative education and increased health screenings.
No pressure, but: A growing consensus within medical science is that the future of humanity could lie in the phage positioned under students' microscopes at the University of South Florida.
PLUS+ Me helps people living with HIV in the Tampa Bay Area to become ambassadors to advocate for better legislation and healthcare services for Floridians living with HIV and AIDS.
"The opioid epidemic is a complex problem and the solution has to be as comprehensive and complex as the problem is," says Dr. Khary Rigg, Assistant Professor in the USF Department of Mental Health and Law Policy. Read more about what he and others are doing to find solutions.
A supermajority of Sunshine State voters approved legalizing cannabis for medical use in 2016. But as of today, Florida's doctors and researchers say they're still waiting for the smoke to clear before cannabis can make concrete clinical progress. Learn more.
The Ringling, Florida's state museum in Sarasota, strives for diversity and inclusion with the expansion of its community outreach programs to nontraditional neighborhoods and families with special needs.
Placing public art in the center of roundabouts improves safety and traffic flow while helping to create a sense of place in Florida cities. See how it works in Tampa, Clearwater, Dunedin, and Sarasota.
PEARL Homes plans to build first "net-zero" energy homes in Florida near Bradenton -- that is homes that generate as much, or possibly even more, energy than they consume.
The league of misfit superheroes known as the Sarasota Lady Arm Wrestlers (SLAW) puts muscle behind nonprofit organizations in the Sarasota-Manatee region by placing a boisterous spin on traditional philanthropy models.
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