Perhaps best known for hosting Super Bowls and Gasparilla parades, housing MacDill Air Force Base and being home to professional sports teams and high profile athletes – the crown jewel of the Tampa Bay region is oh-so-much more. Tampa is on the verge of achieving many long-planned ambitions. Downtown redevelopment, the expansion of the city’s port and airport, a planned Interstate 4 Green Tech corridor and a substantial increase in research activities at the University of South Florida fuel its progress.
Entrepreneur Sebastien Rivas carves out a niche for a new coffee shop in Tampa's Channel District with unique recipes inspired by fond childhood memories of flavored cereals and creamy milk.
Homegrown craft beer brewery Big Storm Brewing’s Blood Brothers cocktail mix is now the “official Bloody Mary mix” of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and available on game day at select locations in the stadium.
COVID-19 testing at Tampa International Airport is designed to help stop the spread of the disease among people departing and arriving in Florida.
USF researchers developing an electronic nose to sniff out viruses are named finalists in the global XPRIZE Rapid COVID Testing competition.
IN AWE, a virtual experience by women and for women, is an effort to advance entrepreneurship, innovation, and women-run companies by pooling resources that support women as innovators and tech entrepreneurs in the Tampa Bay Area.
A grant from Bank of America will be used to help retrain dozens of unemployed East Tampa residents hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and get them back in the workforce.
The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council (TBRPC), in partnership with USF's Patel College of Global Sustainability, and the U.S. Department of Energy, seeks to create a framework to mitigate worst-case natural disaster scenarios in the Tampa region by harnessing a form of renewable energy with bright potential: solar power.
When Community Leader and Entrepreneur Candy Lowe's Black Business Bus Tours couldn't safely continue during the pandemic, she created Buy Black Saturday to encourage customers to visit Tampa's small shops on their own because the local business owners need the support now more than ever.
USF researchers are helping lead the charge to develop new drugs that can help treat and slow the progression of ALS, a debilitating and deadly disease that strikes 6,000 Americans each year.
Dr. S. "Aaron'' Laden, a retired pathologist in the Tampa Bay Area, looks for humor in the everyday vicissitudes of life. This time he takes on the ramifications of excessive cell phone use during a pandemic.
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