USF Magazine Summer 2012

Volume 54 | Number 2

Spotlight

Health

Nursing Breaks Top 25

| College of Nursing

USF's College of Nursing has joined the ranks of the top 25 nursing schools in the nation receiving National Institutes of Health research funding.

The college attracted a record $1.99 million from NIH in fiscal year 2011, a 16 percent jump from 2010. USF nursing has been on a fast track for national research prominence over the last several years. Just four years ago, the college ranked 66th in NIH funding.

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Health Alliance

| USF Health

A strategic alliance forged this spring between Florida Hospital and USF Health will help translate the university's leading medical research into innovative, patient-centered treatments at four Tampa Bay hospitals.

The public-private partnership expands key specialty areas at hospitals in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties.

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