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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Search-and-rescue expert leaves USF, Tampa Tribune

By Adam Emerson
June 24, 2008

TAMPA - The University of South Florida is losing a high-profile faculty member to a Texas university that saw opportunity in Florida's economic misery.

Robin Murphy, whose search-and-rescue robots have scoured some of the nation's worst disaster sites including ground zero, is leaving USF in August for a job with Texas A&M University.

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