The Florida High Tech Corridor and USF Research & Innovation are increasing alternatives for undergraduate research throughout the University of South
Florida, funding applications in all 14 schools, USF St. Petersburg, and Undergraduate
Studies for 2025–26. Through the continued Corridor Undergraduate Research Initiative, greater than 200 college students will acquire hands-on, faculty-mentored research expertise
in disciplines starting from engineering and synthetic intelligence to public well being,
schooling, sustainability, and the humanities.
Since this system’s launch in 2022, it has supported greater than 250 college students and helped
to launch formal undergraduate research applications throughout greater than half of the universities
at USF. This yr’s growth marks a significant milestone in making undergraduate research
an accessible and defining a part of the USF scholar expertise throughout all disciplines,
aligning with USF’s concentrate on experiential centered learning to drive scholar’s profession readiness. These experiences bridge classroom learning
with immersive, real-world research – usually for the primary time – empowering college students
to construct new abilities, confidence, and profession pathways.
“This alternative actually solidified my understanding of what research in a public
well being setting entailed,” mentioned Ishika Sonthalia, a College of Public Health scholar
whose work led to co-authorship on two research. “Getting such an in depth look at the
course of and being the recipient of hands-on mentoring gave me a stable basis for
what kind of issues I ought to aspire to be able to when it lastly involves publishing
my very own research someday.”
“Getting the possibility to be an HTC intern with the Center for Ocean Mapping and Innovative
Technologies meant a lot to me as a scholar and lady in STEM….Being given the
alternative to be taught and develop by means of this internship, I now really feel extra certified to
go after roles which might be related,” mentioned Grace Angeli, a Judy Genshaft Honors College
scholar who participated within the College of Marine Science research intern program.
To acknowledge college for his or her vital function in these applications, scholar success, and
undergraduate research, the Corridor Undergraduate Research Initiative additionally offers
college stipends to taking part schools. These college serve on the Undergraduate
Research Council, led by the Office of Student Engagement in Research & Innovation
(SERI), to share greatest practices in scholar engagement and research administration.
Grace Angeli summarizes the research that she carried out at the Center for Ocean Mapping
and Innovative Technologies.
New Initiatives
Patel College of Global Sustainability – Sustainability Policy & Innovation Undergraduate
Research Program
The program will supply faculty-mentored research experiences for college kids throughout disciplines,
specializing in the Food-Water-Energy Nexus, Climate resilience, and sustainable know-how
coverage, with coaching in research strategies, stakeholder engagement, and coverage evaluation
resulting in student-authored outcomes.
Morsani College of Medicine – USF Health Innovation and Technology Scholars Program
This initiative will broaden undergraduate research alternatives in rising healthcare
applied sciences corresponding to prolonged actuality (XR), synthetic intelligence (AI), and 3D printing
by pairing them with college mentors and integrating them into energetic initiatives at
the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS).
Undergraduate Studies – Cultivating Student Scholars Through the Transfer Engagement
and Achievement Mentorship (TEAM) Program
This program will improve the TEAM Program, a student-to-student mentor program for
switch college students at USF, to introduce a research readiness part that straight
engages first-year switch and college students from the Fuse Transfer Program, focusing
on foundational research abilities, college engagement, and confidence-building to assist
their tutorial and research success.
Recurring Initiatives
Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing – REU Interdisciplinary
Research Support for Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and
Computing
The Bellini College’s REU program goals to provide undergraduate college students a possibility
to take part in interdisciplinary research involving AI, Cybersecurity, Computing,
as research assistants with professors and graduate college students on a wide range of thrilling
present and new research initiatives.
College of Arts & Sciences – Forever Resilient: Cross-College, Community-Engaged Research
within the Spatial Dynamics of Emerging Chemical Threats alongside Social and Ecological Gradients
in Tampa Bay
Forever Resilient builds on the prior funded program to supply first-time undergraduate
researchers with interdisciplinary coaching and mentorship to review PFAS chemical compounds
and neighborhood resilience by means of fieldwork and knowledge assortment throughout Tampa Bay.
College of Behavioral & Community Sciences – CBCS Corridor Undergraduate Research
Initiative
The CBCS Undergraduate Research Scholarship program continues to develop, doubling scholar
participation and increasing mission choices. It strengthens recruitment throughout three
initiatives and, with assist from the MOM’s Project and Corridor funding, will additional
enhance alternatives for college kids to conduct impartial research beneath shut college
mentorship.
Muma College of Business – Integrated Analytics Research Experience for Undergraduates
(iAREU)
Building on final yr’s profitable launch, the iAREU program seeks to broaden undergraduate
research within the school offering college students with hands-on expertise in data-driven
initiatives throughout enterprise areas corresponding to enterprise analytics, monetary modeling, provide
chain optimization, digital advertising and marketing, and entrepreneurship, utilizing instruments like Python,
R, and JavaScript, with a concentrate on real-world innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.
College of Design, Art, and Performance – Field primarily based Research Assistantships in Entertainment
Design & Technology
Students will conduct research subject work in Entertainment Design by aiding college
on skilled or USF productions, utilizing cutting-edge design know-how like 3D rendering,
lighting software program, and AI-generated artwork to discover profession pathways in theatre, movie,
and stay efficiency.
College of Education – Educational Research within the Classroom & Beyond: The College
of Education Undergraduate Summer Research Academy
The Summer Research Academy permits 10 undergraduate research students within the College
to expertise and study research by means of a guided program offering alternatives
for college kids to listen to from researchers and collaborate with friends as they work on research
initiatives now enhanced with built-in AI coaching to deepen their research abilities
and publicity.
College of Engineering – Expanding Opportunities: Undergraduate Research for Florida’s
Future STEM Workforce
The College’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program might be expanded
to provide undergraduate college students a possibility to take part straight in research
efforts as research assistants with professors and graduate college students on a spread
of thrilling and interdisciplinary research initiatives.
Judy Genshaft Honors College – USF Undergraduate Research Portal
The scholar research group is enhancing the Undergraduate Research Portal, a useful resource
utilized by over 2,500 college students, by including new options like customization and college
profile upgrades, whereas increasing entry to the broader USF and Tampa Bay communities
for research collaboration.
College of Marine Science – C-MORE Internship (Coastal Mapping, Observation, Research
& Ecology)
This program permits college students from throughout disciplines to expertise brief length
subject experiences corresponding to research cruises offering palms on expertise in subject
work actions gaining laboratory, subject, and computational abilities whereas additionally taking part
in structured science communication coaching.
College of Nursing – Undergraduate Biobehavioral Researchers Program (UBRP)
The program offers undergraduate college students with an immersive expertise in laboratory
research, tailoring their experiences in response to their pursuits and ability ranges
with mentorship from the lab director, research assistants, and graduate-level college students.
Taneja College of Pharmacy – Laboratory primarily based research coaching for USF Undergraduate
college students
This program offers undergraduate college students throughout disciplines hands-on research
experiences with college in areas like in vitro research, bioinformatics, pharmacology,
and immunohistochemistry, providing lab-based coaching and mentorship to assist their
learning and contributions to real-world research.
College of Public Health – COPH Connect to Success: A Program to Enhance Research
Mentorship for Undergraduate Students
Through a 10-week program public well being and well being sciences college students will contribute
to a research mission guided by college mentors on matters corresponding to well being fairness and
disparities affecting underserved and marginalized populations.
USF St. Petersburg – Summer Academy for Investigative Learning (SAIL)
The continued SAIL Program will introduce undergraduate individuals, particularly these
new to research, to the profound significance of research in our ever-evolving society,
problem them to confront native and world points, and empower them to actively have interaction
in research endeavors at USF and past.