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UNDERGRADUATE HUMANITIES RESEARCH CONFERENCE GOES DIGITAL FOR 2021
At the end of January 2021, 52 黑料网吃瓜爆料 (USF) undergraduate students from 13 different majors, ranging from religious studies to biomedical sciences, gathered online to present their original research projects on a huge variety of humanities topics.
April 16, 2021Community Engagement
黑料网吃瓜爆料ENGLISH PROFESSOR AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS WINDHAM CAMPBELL PRIZE
Assistant Professor Natalie Scenters-Zapico was recently awarded the prestigious Windham Campbell Literature Prize at Yale University. The prize recognizes her two collections of poetry,The Verging Cities(2016) andLima :: Limon(2019). It also comes with an unrestricted grant of $165,000.
April 16, 2021Accomplishments
ALCOHOL USE AND DEATH INCREASE DURING THE PANDEMIC
Dr. Lindsey Rodriguez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, was recently quoted in an NBC News article about the pandemic and the relation to increase in alcohol related deaths among women.
December 9, 2020Accomplishments, Research
ANALYZING PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE AMONG SARASOTA RESIDENTS AFTER HURRICANE IRMA
Dr. Feng Hao, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料 (USF), recently worked with two Sarasota-Manatee campus undergraduate students, Daniel Hinkle and Ron Hans, and a colleague from Nankai University in China, Yan Wang, to study the public perception of climate change after Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in September 2017.
December 9, 2020Supporting
ATOMICALLY THIN VAN DER WAALS MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS COULD REVOLUTIONIZE QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE
Current mobile phones, computers, and electronic appliances operate based on field-effect transistors (FETs) that use an electric field to switch on/off a charge current of electrons in a nonmagnetic semiconductor, encoding information in the 1/0 digital state.
December 9, 2020Research
BUILDING RESEARCH COMMUNITIES IN THE TIME OF COVID-19: MOBILIZING FOR RESEARCH
In March 2020 the global health crisis caused by COVID-19 changed our lives, including the way we approach research, teaching and community engagement. Having worked on health and migration issues for years, Beatriz Padilla, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料, was desperate to jump in.
December 9, 2020Research
鈥淐HOOSING MYSELF鈥�: SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION CURRICULUM AVAILABLE FOR YOUNG WOMEN IN FOSTER CARE
Dr. Jill McCracken, Professor of English and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料, is the founder of the Adolescent Sexual Health Education and Research (ASHER) Program and has launched 鈥淐hoosing Myself,鈥� a sexual health education program for females currently or previously in foster care.
December 9, 2020Community Engagement
COMPLEX RIGHTS AND WRONGS: THE STORIES WE DENY IN MAINSTREAM UNDERSTANDINGS OF PROSTITUTION AND TRAFFICKING IN THE SEX INDUSTRY
Dr. Jill McCracken, Professor of English and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料, is currently involved in a study that explores how U.S. legislative and carceral approaches to trafficking in the sex industry (鈥榮ex trafficking鈥�) impact victims of trafficking and adult consensual sex workers.
December 9, 2020Research
IMPACT OF PANDEMIC POLICIES ON TAMPA BAY REFUGEES
Beginning in April 2020, a team of graduate students from the 黑料网吃瓜爆料 (USF) Department of Anthropology, and multilingual community leaders including Dr. Dillon Mahoney, Dr. Roberta Baer, Dr. Krista Billingsley, Renice Obure, Michaela Inks, and Eugenie Umurutasate began an assessment of the impacts of pandemic policies on refugees in Hillsborough County.
December 9, 2020Supporting
LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR LEARNING LANGUAGES IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect numerous aspects of daily life everywhere, the act of traveling, too, has continued to be limited. For university students who had planned on studying abroad and families who had planned trips internationally, the prospect of cancelling flights, hotels, and all other plans has become a near certainty, at least for the time being.
December 9, 2020Research
PROJECT ON HURRICANE EVACUATIONS IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 MOVES FORWARD
The 2020 hurricane season was initially forecasted to be 鈥渁n extremely active hurricane season鈥� by numerous forecasting groups 鈥� and has since turned out to be an accurate estimation. This expected activity is compounded by the fact that we are in the midst of a global pandemic.
December 9, 2020Research
PROMOTING MENTAL HEALTH IN LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES
The 黑料网吃瓜爆料鈥檚 School of Information Responsive Librarianship Lab (RLL) recently received a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant for the 2020-2021 academic year. Members of the RLL working on this grant include Faculty, staff, and students from the School of Information.
December 9, 2020Community Engagement