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VISIBILITY & REMEMBRANCE: STANDING WITH THE TRANS* COMMUNITY ART SHOW

Visibility & Remembrance: Standing with the Trans* Community is an international art exhibit hosted by the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏDepartment of Women's & Gender Studies that centers trans* people as it invites artists to create and submit work that stands in solidarity with the trans* community.

January 21, 2022Events

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ZIMMERMAN SCHOOL SENIOR INSTRUCTOR EARNS ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP

Wayne Garcia, a Senior Instructor in the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications at USF, was recently named the James A. Clendinen Professor in Editorial and Critical Writing in the Zimmerman School, effective immediately for a two-year term.

January 21, 2022Accomplishments

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LEADING BY EXAMPLE: THE WGS DIVERSITY GROUP AND ANTI-RACISM SERIES

The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏDepartment of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) stands in opposition to racism and supports anti-racist work in their teaching, research, and service.

September 1, 2021Supporting

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NEW BOOK DETAILS RELIGIOUS MOBILIZATION BY POLITICAL PARTIES

Luis Felipe Mantilla, Associate Professor with the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ St. Petersburg campus, recently published his book How Political Parties Mobilize Religion: Lessons from Mexico and Turkey.

September 1, 2021Accomplishments

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NEW BOOK HIGHLIGHTS PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION AND RESULTING PUBLIC IMPACT

The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times is the latest addition to the Digital Politics series from Oxford University Press.

September 1, 2021Accomplishments

Francesca Storici and Natasha Jonoska

NEW GRANTS COULD TRANSFORM SCIENTISTS' UNDERSTANDING OF DNA

Two charitable foundations have announced their support of research at the Georgia Institute of Technology that could change the basic understanding of DNA, potentially leading to new treatments for degenerative diseases.

September 1, 2021Accomplishments

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NOVEL PROGRAM IDENTIFIES FOOD INSECURE RESIDENTS WITH HELP FROM ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏCENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF FOOD SECURITY & HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

Food insecurity refers to the lack of access to nutritionally adequate food which can result in hunger as well as in an increased likelihood of chronic diet-related diseases (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease).

September 1, 2021Supporting

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SMALL ISLAND, GLOBAL IMPACT: THE GROWTH OF IRISH STUDIES AT USF

Ireland is a country that is deceptively small on the map in relation to its substantial global impact. In the medieval period, it was a cradle of European intellectualism, sending premier scholars to courts all over the globe.

September 1, 2021Supporting

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ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏANTHROPOLOGISTS FACILITATE COVID-19 VACCINATIONS FOR TAMPA’S REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS

After years of research with refugee and immigrant communities, ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏanthropologists are now pivoting their efforts to ensure that Tampa’s hard-to-reach populations have access to free COVID-19 vaccinations.

September 1, 2021Supporting

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ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏENGLISH PROFESSOR AWARDED MCKNIGHT JUNIOR FACULTY FELLOWSHIP

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏDepartment of English Assistant Professor Julia Koets was awarded a McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Florida Education Fund, a program that promotes excellence in teaching and research by underrepresented minorities and women.

September 1, 2021Accomplishments

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ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏPROFESSOR INVITED TO JOIN UN AND UNESCO ADVISORY GROUP ON GENOCIDE EDUCATION IN AFRICA

In 1994, more than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists, a group targeting members of the minority Tutsi community and other political opponents, regardless of their ethnic origin.

September 1, 2021Featured

Dr. Aisha Durham

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏPROFESSOR TAPPED TO CURATE HIP-HOP COLLECTIONS FOR THE SMITHSONIAN

Dr. Aisha Durham, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, currently serves as an advisor for the National Museum of African American History and as recently selected to curate the first multimedia hip hop collection to chronicle the development of the culture for the Smithsonian Institute.

September 1, 2021Accomplishments

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