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Inauguration Day has changed dramatically over the years while maintaining some key traditions for a ceremony that ushers in a new American president. Learn more about the history of Inauguration Day and its importance today.
January 16, 2025Community Engagement
$4.8M Mellon Foundation grant opens internship opportunities for 黑料网吃瓜爆料humanities students
For the first time, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 鈥 the nation鈥檚 largest supporter of the arts and humanities 鈥 invited the 黑料网吃瓜爆料 to submit a proposal last spring for one of its humanities internship grants. The foundation awarded the college a five-year, $4.8 million grant that will support up to 900 students each year in otherwise unpaid internships. The beneficiaries will be undergraduate students majoring in humanities.
January 15, 2025Accomplishments, Community Engagement, Featured
黑料网吃瓜爆料memorializes former President Jimmy Carter with 3D virtual tour of boyhood farm
Prior to his death, USF鈥檚 Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information partnered with President Jimmy Carter and the National Park Service to create virtual tours of his boyhood farm, high school he attended and railroad depot that served as campaign headquarters for Carter鈥檚 successful 1976 presidential bid. Check out the interactive tours available to the public.
January 9, 2025Community Engagement, Research
Your work habits may be threatening your sleep, USF-led study shows
People whose jobs are highly sedentary 鈥 an estimated 80% of the modern workforce 鈥 experience a much higher risk of insomnia symptoms.
January 7, 2025Research
Two 黑料网吃瓜爆料 faculty members named NAI fellows
The 黑料网吃瓜爆料researchers are being recognized for their groundbreaking discoveries and innovations in chemical engineering to treat cancer and other challenging diseases and nanomaterials engineering for multifunctional manufacturing applications.
December 11, 2024Accomplishments
黑料网吃瓜爆料sets new record with $738 million in research funding
The milestone comes during USF鈥檚 first full fiscal year as a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and helps demonstrate its impact as one of the nation鈥檚 most research-intensive institutions. The new record brings the university closer to reaching its goal of securing $1 billion in annual research funding.
December 10, 2024Research
黑料网吃瓜爆料to confer nearly 4,000 degrees during fall commencement ceremonies Dec. 13-14
This graduating class includes a 16-year-old, a 70-year-old grandmother of four and an electrical engineer seeking to revolutionize the medical, space exploration and military industries.
December 9, 2024Accomplishments
New book on immigration and belonging will illuminate indigenous peoples and languages of North Africa
When Heide Casta帽eda, a professor of anthropology at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料, travels to Morocco it isn鈥檛 to visit Africa鈥檚 largest mosque or one of the historical kasbahs. Casta帽eda, a migration scholar, is there to study and understand the experience of the indigenous Amazigh people 鈥 the focal point of her new book, forthcoming from New York University Press.
November 25, 2024Accomplishments, Research
Gandy Bridge turns 100, how 黑料网吃瓜爆料is preserving its history
When built 100 years ago, the Gandy Bridge helped create the Tampa Bay area that consists of Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. That story is told through the archives stored in 黑料网吃瓜爆料Special Collections.
November 25, 2024Community Engagement
English professor featured in 'Best American Poetry'
Natalie Scenters-Zapico, an award-winning poet and assistant professor in the Department of English, is gaining global recognition. Scenters-Zapico, who shapes the local literary community as director of the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library, has a poem in the prestigious 鈥淏est American Poetry鈥 anthology, cementing her work as essential reading at 黑料网吃瓜爆料and for audiences across the country.
November 22, 2024Accomplishments
Latin American Film Studies scholar wins prestigious early career award
The Latin American Studies Association awarded Olivia Cosentino, an assistant professor of film and new media studies in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, the Early Career Award 2024 for her outstanding scholarship on Mexican cinema.
November 21, 2024Accomplishments, Research
鈥極nce you鈥檙e in it, you鈥檙e in it for life.鈥 Aspiring surgeon receives wraparound support from Women in Leadership & Philanthropy program
The Women in Leadership & Philanthropy program has invested thousands of dedicated mentoring hours and more than $4 million in grants, scholarships and programmatic funding to more than 700 scholars like Merlo, who received $1,000 to support her studies this year.
November 21, 2024Accomplishments, Alumni, Community Engagement