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Banning Friendships Can Backfire: Moms' 'Meddling' Worsens Behavior
A study by Ñý°®Ö±²¥ on maternal disapproval of children's friends reveals unforeseen consequences of this well-intended interference, resulting in worsening bad behavior instead of improving it.
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$1.8M NIH Grant to Ñý°®Ö±²¥ Engineering Will Fuel Decoding Human Evolution
A grant from the NIH awarded to Ñý°®Ö±²¥ engineering will help to further research and develop cutting-edge tools to help unravel the genetic mechanisms behind disease resistance and defense.
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Ñý°®Ö±²¥ Engineering to Lead $1.3M Collaborative Conservation Project
Ñý°®Ö±²¥ engineering will lead a project designed to cost-effectively identify and track wildlife using artificial intelligence, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
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Nighttime Data Shows Inequities in Hurricane Michael Power Restoration
Using nighttime lightdata from NASA, Ñý°®Ö±²¥ researchers find notable differences in power-restoration rates among urban and rural areas and socioeconomic status in Florida's Panhandle after Hurricane Michael.
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Alcohol Use in Older Adults Doubles Risk of Brain Bleeds from Falls
A study by Ñý°®Ö±²¥ Schmidt College of Medicine researchers is among the first to examine the link between alcohol use and brain bleeds in 3,128 older adults who sustained a head trauma from a fall.
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Ñý°®Ö±²¥ Lands $1.3M NSF Grant to Boost Dryland Soil Quality
The NSF-funded project will enhance understanding of climate resistance of individual microbes and improve microbial remediations to reduce soil degradation in drylands under climate stressors.
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Study Finds Police Misconduct 'Hotspots' Across Florida
Researchers from Ñý°®Ö±²¥'s College of Social Work and Criminal Justice analyzed data from 241 Florida law enforcement agencies across 67 counties (2012-2023) to explore police misconduct.
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Digital Self-Harm Surges Among U.S. Teens from 2016 to 2021
A new study finds that digital self-harm, where individuals anonymously post or share hurtful content about themselves online, has increased more than 88% since 2016 among 13 to 17 year olds in the U.S.
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'Fit2Drive' Transforms Assessing Older Drivers with Cognitive Decline
"Fit2Drive," an algorithm developed by Ñý°®Ö±²¥ researchers has made it easy to administer and evaluate an in-office test to predict an older individual's probability of passing an on-road driving test.
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FPL and Ñý°®Ö±²¥ Engineering Unveil New AI-Enabled Center
Ñý°®Ö±²¥ College of Engineering and Computer Science and Florida Power & Light Company officially unveiled the newly established "FPL Center for Intelligent Energy Technologies" (InETech).