Introducing the SHINE Science Center logo! We focus on how sleep affects health in healthy individuals, caregivers, military families & those with autism, pain, obesity, anxiety, MCI & more. Driving sleep science forward. USF Health Nursing #SHINEscience #Sleep #Innovation #health

🌟 Meet the minds behind SHINE Science! 🌟 We’re proud to introduce the dedicated team driving innovation & discovery at the SHINE Science Center. Stay tuned this week to learn more about each of our incredible team members and their work! #SHINEscience #innovation #sleep

Excited to share a glimpse into the work we're leading at the SHINE Science Center , where I serve as Assistant Director—driving progress in sleep health research and interdisciplinary collaboration. SHINE Science Center USF Health Nursing #SleepScience #SHINEScience

Happy National Women's Health Week!

Honored to speak at the USF Women’s Health Collaborative Women in White Coats panel last night! Incredible discussions on all aspects of women’s health research with a room full of inspiring women. Grateful to the leadership & organizers for a powerful evening. #WomensHealth

Perk of working USF Health Nursing is that the annual spring fling is in a gorgeous venue this year - Busch Gardens Tampa Bay !

Come see us next week at #SLEEP2025 !!

Fun CASH Lab lunch at the #SLEEP2025 conference in beautiful Seattle. Excited to present our work this week and take in all the innovative sleep science! #gobulls USF Health Nursing SHINE Science Center

Come check out our morning posters starting at 10am- showcasing Dr. Ashley F. Curtis AASM Foundation funded work! #SLEEP2025

Way to go Amy!!

Come check out our final poster presentation at today’s session- led by our graduate trainee Susan Rodriguez - discussing sex differences in associations between napping and heart rate variability in older adults! #SLEEP2025 Dr. Ashley F. Curtis

What a whirlwind week at #SLEEP2025 in Seattle! Grateful for the chance to share exciting science, cheer on my amazing @cashlabusf trainees, debut SHINE Science Center to the sleep world, reconnect with friends & colleagues, and meet many new faces. Already excited for Baltimore 2026! 🧠💤

Disseminating our science is one of the best parts of what we do!

Had a great time presenting at the USF Health Medicine Sleep Medicine Research Lecture series today. I shared new updates from my Women's Health Collaborative funded study examining sex-specific sleep & pain risk factors for cognitive dysfunction across menopause.

Check out Dr. Curtis' feature in Prevention Magazine!

New pub alert! Check it out below.

🎓 Officially Dr. Costa! HUGE congrats to CASH Lab’s Amy Costa, PhD on defending her dissertation examining sleep-related correlates of the objective/subjective cognition relationship in older adults. Dr. Costa is off to a T32 postdoc Pitt Center for Sleep and Circadian Science this fall. We are so proud!! 💤🧠🎉

Congratulations Dr. Curtis!!

CASH Lab Doctoral Trainee Nataša Billeci was honored to be selected and recently attend the Genomics for Social Scientists – Epigenetics Workshop at University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, sponsored by the NIH - National Institute on Aging.