For nearly 30 years, a small fossil from Scotland has been celebrated as one of the earliest known reptiles. A new study is rewriting that story.

A UVA Engineering researcher is using AI to develop computational tools that improve infectious disease forecasting, guide public health decisions and strengthen disease surveillance.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded DRI’s Alison Murray, molecular microbial ecologist and biological oceanographer, $18.4 million to lead a project that will pave the way for the next generation of Antarctic research. Titled “Genome Infrastructure catalyzing next Generation Antarctic Data, Access, Tools, and Analytics” (GIGA DATA), the work will produce an extensive database of genetic information. More than 250 Antarctic species’ genomes will be sequenced (including algae and mosses, terrestrial and marine invertebrates, birds, fish and marine mammals) alongside 600 ecosystem samples representing tens of thousands of microbial and viral genomic datasets. This project will unite these new data together with existing Antarctic sequencing efforts under a new, artificial intelligence-enabled cyberinfrastructure. The resulting digital platform will serve as an open, accessible data science gateway to Antarctic life. 

UCF is leading the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) $20 million National Commercialization and Translation Institute (NCTI) initiative, a two-year pilot program designed to help promising federally funded technologies become successful companies.

The effort validates decades of impact UCF has created with helping researchers take discoveries from the lab into the marketplace — and allows the university to help enhance economic vitality across America.

Previously successful research commercialization efforts at the university include the UCF Business Incubation Program and three other NSF-funded programs: Accelerating Research Translation (ART), I-Corps and the Florida Semiconductor Engine.

Led by Professor Ivan Garibay ’00MS ’04PhD, NCTI will support developing businesses under the guidance of technology, business and research experts, including College of Engineering and Computer Science Dean Michael Georgiopoulos, and professors Thomas O’Neal ’96MS ’96MBA ’05PhD and Ron Piccolo.

When temperatures spike, coast redwoods respond by slowing photosynthesis which they use to grow, finds a UC Davis study that offers a warning for the fate of the world's tallest trees.