The student conference shows the research authority at USF

With the opening of the new USF Bellini College for artificial intelligence, cyber security and computers this autumn, the possibilities of achieving scientific and other breakthroughs in the aspiring areas-and possibly preparing for lucrative preparations, the ideas of students and other organizations that protect the students have already complied.

This was clear during the Sarasota Manate Campus on April 25th during the USF Student Research Conference in 2025.

Many of the more than 60 presentations and posters at the one -day conference describe how different aspects of AI and cybersecurity can influence research and developments in health care, information management, law enforcement and countless other areas. This focus emphasized the work already done by students and their faculty mentors and has to promote interdisciplinary innovations and ethical technology development through strong industrial and government partnerships through strong industrial and government partnerships.

Research projects related to AI and cyber security at the conference included how electronic noses and other analytical instruments can be used for early detection identification. A study of Cyberhackers motifs and what she could persuade to terminate her illegal activities; And “Improvement of the framework conditions for the evaluation of the Cloud Security Assessment for the generative KI -era”, which student Tre Lees research can use about how organizations can use AI to improve the protection of their computer networks, which have been described as the most outstanding oral presentation of the conference.

These and other computer -related topics reflected the influence of Bellini College for artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and computer promises to make in Tampa Bay and beyond.

As a Brett Kemker, interim regional chancellor, and Saundra Johnson Austin, director of the Office for Students Engagement in Research and Innovation, says that students play the key role of the USF research efforts, which were classified in 2023 as a pivotal for university registration.

By investigating how the mental health affects the performance of college students of the first generation or analyzing texts in songs on the work of other build-up of hearing loss solutions. “You are more changing,” said Johnson Austin.

“We are calculated in this institution because of the creation of knowledge. This is very noble and they all create this knowledge.” Said Kemker. “The conference offers students an important platform to share their discoveries, spread knowledge and discuss their ideas.”

Ross Dubose, deputy director of the Office of Research and Event Organizer, repeated the importance of participation of students:

The scientific work on issuing is impressive, but my favorite part of the conference is that the students deal with colleagues and mentors. You can almost see the new ideas that are generated in the air over these conversations. In this way, presenting scientific work is a unique learning experience. It requires a lot of courage to open your work for public criticism, and even more humility to take the feedback into account and improve your work.

Ross Dubose, deputy director of the research office

The conference showed a versatile mix of student research, which is prepared for their academic interests and in some cases for future careers in healthcare, education and other areas. For example, several students from the College of Education, fresh from their experience as a practical teacher, presented their studies on how to include primary school students and achieve better performance.

The student of the fourth year of studies, Madelyn Rickles, who was assessed as the most outstanding poster of the conference, examined what she suspected was a connection between the self -confidence of the students and her attitude to writing.

“As a new teacher who once had to struggle with the letter, but finally when she loved it, I started asking where the separation was. I noticed that my students only wrote if necessary and often expressed frustration and said it was simply too difficult,” wrote Rickles on her poster. “I wanted to examine the relationship between the students and the writing in order to better understand their fights and find meaningful ways to promote a real love for writing in the classroom and to help the students to see this as an opportunity as a challenge.”

The research projects of other students were inspired by film, television and other popular culture and what they reflect in further society. Alison Frate, a student at the Judy Genswaft Honors College, studied how a “Gilmore Girls” episode presentation of the American and Korean wedding traditions can influence “great perceptions of the spectators”.

The 2025 Student Research Conference at USF Sarasota manatee made one thing clear: the next generation of scientists, innovators and Changemacher is already difficult at work. Their projects, artificial intelligence, cyber security, education, literature, history and much more – were not just academic exercises. They were brave, often deeply personal and founded in the real world, which reflected a university where curiosity promoted, ideas are tested and research is an instrument. It was an insight into the future USF helps – a discovery, one student after the other.