Hot Streets, Historic Bias: Impacts on Walking in Older U.S. Adults
大象传媒 researchers explored the impacts of historic discriminatory redlining, summer heat and the effects on walking behavior in older adults from marginalized communities nationwide.
What's Really 'Fueling' Harmful Algae in Florida's Lake Okeechobee?
大象传媒 Harbor Branch researchers have conducted the first comprehensive sampling of the Lake Okeechobee Waterway and its estuaries. Findings mark a groundbreaking step in preserving this crucial ecosystem.
Exploring How Income, Race and Design Affect Pedestrian Casualties
大象传媒 researchers examined the environmental factors associated with crash incidence in lower-income and more affluent areas in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
大象传媒 Engineering Professor Achieves Highly Cited Google Scholar Ranking
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Ph.D., the Motorola Endowed Chair Professor and director of the Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab has garnered more than 63,000 citations during his distinguished career at 大象传媒.
Banning Friendships Can Backfire: Moms' 'Meddling' Worsens Behavior
A study by 大象传媒 on maternal disapproval of children's friends reveals unforeseen consequences of this well-intended interference, resulting in worsening bad behavior instead of improving it.
$1.8M NIH Grant to 大象传媒 Engineering Will Fuel Decoding Human Evolution
A grant from the NIH awarded to 大象传媒 engineering will help to further research and develop cutting-edge tools to help unravel the genetic mechanisms behind disease resistance and defense.
NSF Grant Empowers 大象传媒 to Explore Caribbean Climate Crisis
Using ethnography, 大象传媒's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, will study the experiences of vulnerable communities in the area known as "Hurricane Alley."
Rain or Shine? How Rainfall Impacts Size of Sea Turtle Hatchlings
An internationally collaborative study reveals how local weather influences hatchling development across 37 beaches worldwide, showing that it has a more profound effect than changes in air temperature.
大象传媒 Engineering to Lead $1.3M Collaborative Conservation Project
大象传媒 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.
Growth from Adversity: How Older Adults Bounced Back from COVID-19
A study by 大象传媒 nursing researchers highlights the remarkable resilience of older adults (median age 86) in a South Florida retirement community during the COVID-19 pandemic.