Luring Draper Laboratory cost $20 million, but local government leaders are hoping the millions spent to bring the research company to Tampa will pay huge dividends. ...more

October 27, 2009

The Florida Senate wants to strip more than $700,000 from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Center, on top of the $10 million that lawmakers took from the center last spring. ...more

January 10, 2009

TALLAHASSEE The Florida Senate wants to strip more than $700,000 from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Center, on top of the $10 million that lawmakers took from the center last spring. ...more

January 9, 2009

Just about every segment of the medical community is piling on the pharmaceutical industry these days, accusing drugmakers of deceiving the public, manipulating doctors and putting profits before patients. ...more

September 11, 2008

Brandon area families who formed a bond after their children were diagnosed with cancer will join forces this weekend, bolstered by a slew of friends and supporters, to raise money for pediatric cancer research. ...more

September 10, 2008

As University of South Florida officials work toward their goal of national prominence, they will have to do so without their sought-after second-in-command. ...more

October 16, 2007

TAMPA - University of South Florida Provost Renu Khator has been named the leader of the University of Houston system. Houston's Board of Regents met this morning to unanimously declare Khator the president of the university and chancellor of its system, which includes three other universities and two teaching centers, said Eric Gerber, the system's spokesman. ...more

October 15, 2007

'Dear God, please help my tummy feel good so I can go to school tomorrow.' Many parents would be shocked to hear this prayer, thinking they must have misunderstood - a child praying to go to school, wishing only for a normal day? ...more

September 23, 2007

The University of South Florida is a big school with big-league ambitions, so it's not surprising that when its leaders sat down to build a strategic plan for the next five years, they crystallized a stretch goal: qualifying for membership in the American Association of Universities, an elite club of the 62 best public and private universities. ...more

September 9, 2007

The University of South Florida's long-range plan to join a group of the nation's elite colleges is among the most focused and ambitious of any school and shouldn't be tempered because of Florida's budget turmoil, a prominent education consultant said Thursday. ...more

September 7, 2007