CAS Chronicles
2025 Stories
Florida Board of Governors confirms Moez Limayem as USF’s next president
Limayem has served as president of the University of North Florida since 2022 and was the Lynn Pippenger Dean of the Muma College of Business at USF for 10 years before taking the role at UNF.
December 12, 2025Community Engagement
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USF study finds widespread rule-breaking in whale shark tourism hotspot
One of the world’s busiest whale-shark destinations is struggling to manage a boom in ecotourism. A new USF study finds the world’s biggest fish may be paying the price.
December 10, 2025Research
USF faculty reframes what literacy means in the age of generative artificial intelligence
Gupta’s task is twofold: help students navigate the benefits and harms of the rapidly evolving technology and encourage them to develop their own principled stances so that they may find meaningful employment and become leaders in their communities.
November 24, 2025Research
Mic drop: USF students gain real-world experience through podcast production
A hands-on podcasting course at USF St. Petersburg is providing students with professional experience as producers across three original series. Through editing, scheduling and collaborative production, students are developing career-ready skills while gaining deeper insight into the craft and impact of audio storytelling.
November 24, 2025Community Engagement
USF students compete to launch experiments aboard the International Space Station
More than 3,700 students across North America competed to design experiments bound for the International Space Station through the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). This year, USF students joined the competition for the first time, rising to the challenge and uniting to bring their innovation into orbit.
November 24, 2025Accomplishments, Featured, Research
Communication alum uses passion and skills for good
Dyma AbuOleim, a 2002 graduate from the Department of Communication, has combined her passion for service with the skills she learned at USF to found a nonprofit organization that’s making an impact in Tampa and beyond.
November 21, 2025Alumni
Newly appointed Jordan Zimmerman Endowed Professor in Advertising plans to make big impact
Janelle Applequist was recently appointed as the newly established Jordan Zimmerman Endowed Professor in Advertising, marking a pivotal moment in her career — and an opportunity to redefine advertising education for the 21st century.
November 21, 2025Accomplishments
Student Voices: How minoring in the humanities at USF led me to a paid internship
Supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Humanities Internship Program provides USF students majoring or minoring in the humanities with meaningful work experience through paid internships and career development workshops.
November 21, 2025Community Engagement
Political science professor leverages Fulbright appointment to build bridges through civic education
Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan used her Fulbright appointment in Uganda to help launch a new U.S. studies center and strengthen communities at home and abroad through civic and political science education.
November 21, 2025Accomplishments, Community Engagement
From coding to cognition: student bridges engineering and psychology to advance brain research
Before engineering major Brandon Snyder joined the EMaC Lab, the toolbox— which makes behavior-contingent analysis of co-registration data possible — was just a dream Liz Schotter and Sara Milligan shared.
November 21, 2025Research
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New study suggests accounting, not aliens, explains Peru’s mysterious ‘Band of Holes’
New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Peru’s puzzling “Band of Holes” — once featured in Ancient Aliens — was part of a sophisticated Indigenous network for storing and recording goods.
November 18, 2025Research
ASEM-FL recognizes USF president emeritus, deans and faculty for professional accomplishments
A president emeritus, two deans and 12 professors from University of South Florida will be recognized for their professional accomplishments at the annual meeting of the Academy of Science, Engineering & Medicine of Florida on Friday, November 7, 2025 in Orlando, Florida.
November 5, 2025Accomplishments