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Educational Trip to Europe Provides Impactful Experience, Teaches Significance of the Holocaust
Eighteen students who took an educational abroad trip to Europe focusing on the Holocaust came back with a deeper understanding of one of the darkest periods in history.
July 5, 2023Teaching and Learning
Honors Grad USF’s First to Win Prestigious Hertog Foundation Summer Fellowship
Samuel Rechek, a Spring 2023 graduate and King O’Neal Scholar, has been awarded a 2023 Summer Fellowship from the Hertog Foundation in its political studies program — a first for USF.
July 3, 2023Accolades, Alumni and Friends
Virtual Pen Pals to Travel Buddies: USF Class Tours South Korea
Students just returned from Seoul, where they finally got to meet their pen pals from Yonsei University whom they’ve been video conferencing and messaging with throughout the spring semester. It’s the first study abroad program to begin virtually and the first faculty-led trip to South Korea since the start of the pandemic.
June 26, 2023Teaching and Learning
USF Alumnus and Actor Serves as a Valuable Advocate Abroad for International Education
Actor and former USF Honors instructor, Ojas Rawal, recently spoke to a group of incoming USF students from India on the importance of international education.
June 22, 2023Alumni and Friends
USF Encourages Young Readers During Arts-Integrated ‘Camp at College’
The four-day program immersed rising fifth, sixth and seventh graders in engaging reading activities designed to enhance their literacy skills and creativity with support from local teaching artists, USF student mentors and Sarasota-Manatee campus faculty and staff.
June 16, 2023Community, Teaching and Learning
USF D.C. Global Experience Opens Doors To Careers in International Affairs and Diplomacy
From May 9-13, Honors students participated in a newly launched program in our nation’s capital. The experience included meetings leaders at federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and think tanks over three full days of programming.
June 14, 2023Alumni and Friends, Teaching and Learning
Boundless Bulls - Kobe Phillips
Through his involvement revitalizing the JGHC Community Garden, Phillips developed a service-learning course and teaches as a peer educator about sustainability, beekeeping and urban ecology.
University of South Florida Accepts Invitation into the Association of American Universities
USF joins a prestigious group of the 71 leading research institutions in the United States and Canada. It is the first public university in Florida to be invited to join the AAU in nearly 40 years and is now one of two institutions from the State University System of Florida to serve as an AAU member.
June 1, 2023Accolades
USF Unveils Historic New Judy Genshaft Honors College Building
The five-story, 85,000-square-foot facility will serve USF’s most accomplished and talented students from every undergraduate college and strengthen the university’s position to attract the top talent within the state of Florida and beyond.
May 12, 2023Alumni and Friends, Community, Events
Alumni and Diverse Business Owners Star in the Construction of the Judy Genshaft Honors College Building
Since its groundbreaking in late 2020, nearly 80 businesses have worked on the five story, 85,000-square-foot building – about half are diverse-owned with an estimated spend on contracts exceeding $11 million.
May 8, 2023Alumni and Friends
Newest USF Phi Beta Kappa Key Into Public Service Scholar Encourages Education Through Storytelling
Audra Nikolajski, a rising senior in the Judy Genshaft Honors College, was recently selected as one of 20 students nationwide to the 2023 cohort of Key into Public Service Scholars by Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s most prestigious honor society.
May 1, 2023Accolades
USF Student’s Journey to the Foreign Service
Judy Genshaft Honors College alum Mabel Proenza selected for the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program.
April 28, 2023Accolades, Alumni and Friends