{"id":186491,"date":"2026-03-11T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186491\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:08:07","slug":"university-of-south-florida-research-funding-climbs-15-fueling-key-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186491\/","title":{"rendered":"University of South Florida research funding climbs 15%, fueling key advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The money accelerates major initiatives in Alzheimer\u2019s prevention, nursing workforce development, and space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/hillsboroughcounty\/hillsborough-county-millions-fletcher-district-usf-tampa\/67-bec57329-f29f-4ba6-bffa-4ead8186807d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">University of South Florida<\/a> says it has increased its research expenditures to $531 million in fiscal year 2025, marking a significant rise from last year and a 15% jump over two years.<\/p>\n<p>The growth underscores USF\u2019s accelerating momentum in a competitive national funding environment and supports major advancements in Alzheimer\u2019s prevention, nursing workforce development, and space exploration, according to the university.<\/p>\n<p>USF is also bolstering the nation\u2019s strained nursing pipeline. College of Nursing Dean Usha Menon is leading a federally funded initiative to increase the number of nurses trained to serve medically underserved communities and primary care settings.<\/p>\n<p>In the aerospace sector, USF said that researchers and students are partnering with NASA to flight-test technology that could enable low-cost, autonomous lunar landings by mapping surface hazards in real time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSF&#8217;s continued rise in national research rankings reflects a focused commitment to advancing our research and teaching mission,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/provost\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Provost Prasant Mohapatra<\/a> said. \u201cAt its core, USF\u2019s role is to translate discovery into meaningful outcomes that serve our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The money accelerates major initiatives in Alzheimer\u2019s prevention, nursing workforce development, and space exploration. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-186491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}