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Crime-Busting Technology
| College of Engineering
You've just spotted a child fitting the general description of a missing child who is the subject of an Amber Alert received on your mobile phone. Quick, what do you do?
You snap a photo with your phone and send it to police dispatchers who can see the photo and know where it came from because the transmitted image includes a GPS "stamp" with the photo on a Google Map.
Pathways to Technology
| USF News
A nearly $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow USF researchers to study a process to help create a highly trained workforce in engineering technology.
Assistant professor Will Tyson is leading an interdisciplinary team from USF's departments of sociology and anthropology and the Florida Advanced Technological Educational Center (FLATE) at Hillsborough Community College to examine student pathways from Tampa Bay area high school career academies through community college advanced technology programs to the local workforce.
Training New Principals
| College of Education
One hundred individuals in four Bay-area school districts will receive accelerated principal preparation training thanks to a $2.5 million grant awarded to the College of Education by the Florida Department of Education.
USF's Department of Education Leadership & Policy Studies will partner with Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and Polk County school districts to implement the 25-month collaborative, job-embedded principal program. Participants in the Gulf Coast Partnership program will earn dual school leadership certification that typically requires 48 months of preparation.