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Research at UT allows students to make important contributions to their fields while delving into subjects that they are passionate about.

10/14/2026

The 2027 Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) will be held tight here in Tampa!

The conference is open to all fields and topics in applied and theoretical linguistics.

10/08/2026

The Department of Biology is hosting the Biology Research Showcase & Speed Networking Event!

Faculty members will give short talks to introduce their research, and students will be able to circulate around the room to inquire more about a faculty member's current projects and research programs.

This is a great opportunity for students to learn how to get involved with research in the Biology Department!

Please join the Biology Department on Oct. 23 from 2:30-4pm in SFB 145. Snacks will be provided!

09/22/2026

Two UTampa students presented at the Florida Association of Aquatic Biologists Meeting.

Brooke Marti presented her SURF project: Comparing the Light Preferences of Two Sacoglossan Sea Slugs: Costasiella ocellifera and Costasiella nonatoi.

And Lea Hinsley presented her work, which was funded by last year's URI grant: Drop It! Ceratal Autotomy as a Defense Mechanism in Dondice jupiteriensis and Cyerce piercei.
Lea also won the award for Best Undergraduate Presentation!

Thank you both for representing UTampa with your amazing projects!

09/18/2026

The Office of Undergraduate Research & Inquiry is accepting applications for next year's grants!
If you are interested in getting involved with research, email [email protected] to find out more!

09/07/2026

Thanks to everyone who attended Friday's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows symposium! 14 summer research students engaged in conversations about their projects with other students, UTampa faculty and staff, and community members, sharing their results and inspiring future researchers.

08/21/2026

Summer research update! Madison Calla, Secondary Biology in Education '27, has continued her curriculum development project through the summer under the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. She has fully developed all hands-on activities and lab experiments with high-level equipment for high school students on the topics of osmosis, water structure, plant structure, photosynthesis, and cellular respiration. Throughout this process, she has collaborated with participating teachers in Hillsborough County to ensure her resource kits will be as realistic, engaging, and easy-to-implement as possible for these teachers. In the following fall months of September and October, she will implement these kits into the classrooms of participating teachers and use tests before and after use to test their effectiveness for students. This will help her understand the difference that hands-on learning makes in everyday science classrooms.

08/20/2026

Summer research update! Gavin Flowers, Marine Science-Biology & Environmental Studies ’28, has found there are slight variances in the track direction of Hurricane Carlotta (2024) between simulated tracks with changing sea surface temperatures (SSTs). He plans further investigation into why these changes are occurring and the potential impact SSTs are having on these changes. This will be done by similarly testing other storms in the Easter Northern Pacific (ENP) basin to see if these results hold
true. If a pattern is recognized, this could be used to make improvements to hurricane forecasting in the ENP basin which is especially useful as SSTs continue to rise due to global warming.

08/19/2026

Summer research update! Danielle Robinson, Biology '27, was granted the SURF award and is currently conducting fruit fly neurodegenerative research, investigating a gene that has been linked to Alzheimer’s. Thus far she has focused on silencing this gene in the brain and the effects it has on the fruit fly. It has been found in past and present SURF research that the flies are severely impacted by the gene being turned off, resulting in a shortened life-span and direct impact to their motor skills. To better understand what is happening, she has done a series of dissections and staining to take a closer look at what’s happening in the brain, hopefully leading to a better understanding of this genes role in Alzheimer’s.

08/18/2026

Summer research update! Volodymyr Zabolotnyi, Computer Science & Mathematics ’27, is constructing a novel instrument for random number generator analysis aimed at identifying the device's drift from its desired parameters. He has completed tests on assessing the unfairness of a random number generator's output, along with input processing functionality. The test will be able to provide engineers with an easy way to interpret a random number generator's probability distribution to determine if their device appears to produce random numbers as desired. The instrument is soon expected to have two different mathematically sound ways to quantify the level of uncertainty in the analyzed data, one best suited for small sample sizes providing best error bounds with high computational cost and the other best suited for large sample sizes being computationally efficient without providing the tightest error bounds.

08/17/2026

Summer research update! Anthony Lane, Mathematics '26, and Dr. Doug Pfeffer are creating 3D manipulable calculating tools (see final photo for an example!). Solid shapes similar to a tripod can be used to solve specific mathematical formulas in extreme environments where things like electricity and computers may not be readily available. This technology (referred as a nomograph) has existed since the late 1800s but hasn't been looked at in a 3D sense until they began working on this project. The hope is to create a framework that allows for higher fidelity calculating tools to be available to emergency/humanitarian workers without relying on computers.

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