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How a kiddie pool and native plants from the Lake Wales Ridge helped baby millipedes hatch in captivity.
January 20, 2026Student Research

Why is the flu so bad this year?
As flu cases rise across the country, ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé Health virologist Dr. Michael Teng explains what makes this season unique and how you can best take care of yourself and your family.
January 16, 2026Health

Laws must keep up with fast-moving AI: A conversation with ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé researcher Karni Chagal-Feferkorn
Chagal-Feferkorn’s work examines the gray areas of liability when autonomous systems are involved in causing damage, the dangers AI poses to children and a growing need for tech creators and policymakers to collaborate before systems are deployed.
January 15, 2026Research

ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé rises in new research rankings, outpacing many peer institutions in growth
With $522 million in research expenditures in fiscal year 2024, ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé ranks No. 47 among the nation’s public universities – and a growth rate higher than 90% of members of the Association of American Universities.
January 13, 2026Research

ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé Health researchers seeking better, safer alternatives to current opioid drugs
ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé Health researchers are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to provide pain relief, offering greater hope that new classes of these drugs may eventually be used to relieve pain without potentially deadly side effects.

ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé Health, TGH surgeon performs nation’s first fully robotic microsurgery with FDA-cleared NanoWrist® instruments
This innovation allows surgeons to perform delicate tissue dissection and vessel preparation with unmatched control, marking a new era in minimally invasive care for patients living with lymphedema.
December 12, 2025Health, Innovation

National Academy of Inventors welcomes three ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé inventors into its 2025 class of fellows
The provost and two faculty members at ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé have been selected as 2025 Fellows to the National Academy of Inventors.
December 11, 2025Honors and Awards

ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé study finds widespread rule-breaking in whale shark tourism hotspot
One of the world’s busiest whale-shark destinations is struggling to manage a boom in ecotourism. A new ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé study finds the world’s biggest fish may be paying the price.
December 11, 2025Research

Study reveals dramatic decline in some historic sargassum populations
Certain populations of sargassum have plummeted during the past ten years, raising alarm for marine ecosystems that depend on the seaweed.
December 5, 2025Research

ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé engineering research team tackles America’s hidden sanitation crisis with breakthrough wastewater technology
Building on his success with the NEWGenerator, and with support from the National Science Foundation, Professor Daniel Yeh and his team have developed a solution that can transform how wastewater is managed in homes and small communities nationwide.
December 4, 2025Innovation

ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé students compete to launch experiments aboard the International Space Station
More than 3,700 students across North America competed to design experiments bound for the International Space Station through the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). This year, ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé students joined the competition for the first time, rising to the challenge and uniting to bring their innovation into orbit.
November 24, 2025Student Research

ͬÐÔÁµÉ«Çé doctoral student is creating an AI tool to turn complex cancer reports into clarity
Inspired by a guest speaker’s message about creating impact through research, Rushitha Mamidala is developing an AI tool that helps patients and doctors by making cancer diagnoses more accurate and easier to understand.
November 24, 2025Student Research