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Florida Board of Governors approves ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏplan for fall semester
The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ’s plan to resume more on-campus operations and some face-to-face courses, in-person services and other activities in the fall was approved this afternoon by the Florida Board of Governors.
June 23, 2020University News
ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏDistinguished Health Professor Shyam Mohapatra awarded Florida Academy of Science 2020 medal
Award recognizes pioneering career achievements in nanotechnology, drug development and personalized medicine.
June 22, 2020Honors and Awards, Research and Innovation, ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏHealth
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught me anything, it has been how much I love the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ community. Its unique camaraderie, intimacy and diversity attracts many students, like myself, to USF. Now, three months absent of these defining interpersonal aspects, I reflect on my experience as a ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏstudent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 22, 2020COVID-19, Campus Life
The significance of Juneteenth
ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏPresident Steven C. Currall addresses the significance of Juneteenth, a 155-year-old holiday celebrating the emancipation of African-Americans from slavery in the U.S.
June 19, 2020University News
ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏaudiologists address COVID-19 challenges for the hearing impaired with new face masks
Face masks have dramatically changed the way many of us communicate in public. The CDC recommends we wear them to prevent against the spread of COVID-19. That extra layer of protection does have a few side effects, especially for the hearing impaired. Face masks can reduce sound by as much as 12 decibels and block one’s facial expressions from being seen.
June 18, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Health Morsani College of Medicine recently received more than $4 million, the largest single gift to scholarships in the history of the medical college. The gift from the late Dr. Jack F. Ross will benefit the medical scholarship that bears his name.
June 17, 2020ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏHealth, University News
COVID-19 adds urgency to ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏresearchers’ high-tech solution to nursing home care crisis
A ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏinterdisciplinary team was building a predictive analytics tool to help nursing homes manage staffing shortages when the pandemic presented a new challenge.
June 16, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ invests $20 million to promote academic progress for student success
The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ, a national leader in student success, will make an unprecedented investment of $20 million to help students who are experiencing financial hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic remain on a path to timely graduation. The university has begun awarding the We Got U-SF Scholarship and Waiver to nearly 22,000 eligible undergraduate and graduate students to encourage full-time enrollment in the fall semester.
June 16, 2020COVID-19, University News
Community benefactors and retired businesswomen Kate Tiedemann and Ellen Cotton have donated $1 million to the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Foundation to create an endowed professor position at USF’s St. Petersburg campus.
June 15, 2020University News
A recently published nationwide study by two ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ professors indicates that blacks are five times more likely and Latinos four times more likely to fear police brutality than whites.
June 15, 2020Research and Innovation
USF's consolidation plan approved
The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ achieved a historic milestone today as the Executive Council of our accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), approved our plan to consolidate our three campuses.
June 12, 2020University News
Accrediting agency approves ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ consolidation
The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ’s plan to consolidate its three campuses was granted approved today by the executive council of the regional accrediting agency that oversees higher education in the southern United States.
June 12, 2020University News