TAMPA — University of South Florida nursing dean Dianne Morrison-Beedy arrived in 2010 with plans for the college to break into the top 25 in National Institutes of Health funding by 2015.

The nursing college hit its goal last year.

The USF nursing researchers made it to No. 25, among more than 600 nursing colleges, with nearly $2 million in NIH funding in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30. It was No. 66 three years earlier.

Pictured: Shaunte Williams, rignt, a USF biological scientist, teaches lab technique to student Raquel Rosier