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Florida House Speaker visits USF’s St. Petersburg campus to unveil robust plan to combat flooding and sea level rise
Florida House Speaker Chris Sprowls visited the University of South Florida’s St. Petersburg campus to announce a broad legislative package that would designate $100 million per year to offset the effects of flooding and sea level rise in the state.
February 26, 2021University News
Construction scheduled to begin on new USF Athletics facilities
USF Vice President of Athletics Michael Kelly and Head Football Coach Jeff Scott announced plans for $25 million in Athletics facility improvements and new construction slated to begin this spring and summer that will take Athletics facilities into a new era.
February 25, 2021USF Athletics
USF-based archaeologists help uncover lost African American cemetery in Clearwater
More than two dozen grave shafts have been discovered at a lost, but not forgotten African American cemetery in Clearwater. Among the team of researchers who took part in the effort are USF-based archaeologists helping to give a community the chance to memorialize those still at rest under layers of dirt, time and development.
February 25, 2021Research and Innovation
USF College of Education receives Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology
The University of South Florida College of Education has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)’s Best Practice Award for Innovative Use of Technology for its cybersecurity education initiatives that provide teachers and aspiring educators with knowledge and skills in cybersecurity awareness and training, preparing them for roles in various educational settings.
February 25, 2021Honors and Awards
USF, Tampa Bay Lightning and Jabil launch business certificate program focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace
Free seven-week online certificate program will emphasize essential business practices and initiatives designed to increase diversity among employees at all levels.
February 24, 2021University News
Global Virus Network names USF Health the GVN Southeast U.S. Regional Headquarters
The Global Virus Network, a coalition comprising the world’s foremost experts in every class of virus causing disease in humans and some animals, today announced that USF Health, at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., will serve as GVN’s Southeast United States Regional Headquarters.
February 23, 2021COVID-19, Research and Innovation, University News
Will Weatherford elected vice chair of the USF Board of Trustees
The University of South Florida Board of Trustees voted unanimously to elect Will Weatherford as the board’s new vice chair. He will serve a two-year term in the role.
February 23, 2021University News
USF joins national business leaders in co-organizing Florida supply chain event, includes discussion on impacts of COVID-19 vaccine distribution
The University of South Florida’s Muma College of Business is partnering with various industry giants to co-organize the 2021 Florida Supply Chain Summit. The virtual event, slated for March 9 from 9 a.m. – 5:15 p.m., is especially timely as consumers’ eyes have been opened to significant shocks to the global supply chain during the pandemic.
February 22, 2021COVID-19, University News
Africana Studies fosters broad intellectual perspectives that lead to impactful careers
USF is the first university in Florida to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in Africana Studies. It was founded more than 50 years ago and has helped produce some of the most well-rounded professionals in disciplines around the world, such as law, public policy and community development.
February 19, 2021University News
The Jackson Rooming House Remembered and Re-envisioned
The Jackson Rooming House was once a haven for black entertainers, athletes, teachers, clergymen, and visitors to Tampa, Florida. Located a block west of Tampa Union Station along Nebraska Avenue at 835 Zack Street — currently 851 East Zack St. — it is just a short walk east of the once-thriving Central Avenue business and entertainment district that was prominent during the era of Jim Crow racial segregation.
February 19, 2021Campus Life
USF epidemiologists analyze the prevalence of COVID-19 variants in Tampa Bay
Researchers in the USF College of Public Health are conducting genomic sequencing of positive pooled samples to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 variants in Tampa Bay. This data will be utilized to project how emergent variants could influence the course of the pandemic.
February 19, 2021COVID-19, Research and Innovation
$1 million gift to USF will advance lung research
The University of South Florida has received a $1 million gift to fund research to detect and prevent severe lung scarring. Philanthropist Timothy Ubben made the gift to support research led by his doctor, Jose D. Herazo-Maya, USF Health’s newly appointed associate chief of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine.
February 17, 2021Research and Innovation, USF Health, University News