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CAS and Barry University partner to teach pre-health students key podiatry suturing techniques
The USF Health Professions Advising Committee collaborated with Barry University's School of Podiatric Medicine to host a suturing workshop, providing pre-health students with practical, hands-on experience and vital networking opportunities with medical professionals.
March 27, 2024Community Engagement
Women in Leadership and Philanthropy choose dynamic group of CAS students as this year’s scholars
Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP) have chosen a dynamic group of College of Arts and Sciences students as this year's WLP Scholars. WLP is dedicated to making a different in the lives of women throughout USF and the community.
March 26, 2024Accomplishments, Community Engagement, Featured
USF brings together international researchers to better understand the health effects of our environment
USF’s Oxidative Stress Group is leading an international consortium to bring together researchers and other stakeholders who have interests in nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) and protein adductomics, to promote collaboration, establish guidelines for best practices, and become a recognized entity contributing to our understanding of the exposome.
March 26, 2024Community Engagement, Events
Religious Studies welcomed Dr. Steven M. Vose for an overview of historical narratives on Jain-Muslim relations in India
The Department of Religious Studies welcomed Dr. Steven M. Vose, an assistant professor in the Department of History and holder of the Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Professorship in Jain Studies at the University of Colorado-Denver, for a discussion on “Just as When Hindus Ruled: The Sultans of Delhi in Jain History and Memory.”
March 26, 2024Community Engagement, Events
English professor receives grant to integrate environmental education into K-12 language arts curriculum
Dr. Jarod Roselló, a professor in the Department of English, received a grant from The Spencer Foundation to fund a one-year program aimed at integrating environmental education into the K-12 Language Arts curriculum.
March 26, 2024Accomplishments, Community Engagement, Research
Students experience the frontlines of presidential campaign trail in ‘Road to the Whitehouse’ course
A group of 24 USF students and Dr. Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan, associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, traveled to South Carolina to work on the frontlines of the U.S. presidential campaign trail as part of the Road to the White House 2024 course.
March 21, 2024Community Engagement
Communications student initiates fundraiser to enhance local elementary school’s P.E. program and impart a meaningful message
Senior, Jenna Capuano raises over $450 for local elementary school as part of her senior capstone project in The Department of Communications.
March 12, 2024Community Engagement
Department of Religious Studies to host Dr. Steven M. Vose for Jain Community Lecture
The talk, titled “Just as When Hindus Ruled: The Sultans of Delhi in Jain History and Memory,” will highlight two persistent and problematic ways of writing the history of India.
February 28, 2024Community Engagement, Events
Guest speaker Rev. Dr. Kapugollawe Anandakiththi set to discuss UNESCO World Heritage Site Sigiriya
Theravada Buddhist monk and Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, Rev. Dr. Kapugollawe Anandakiththi, will be the guest speaker during an event that will highlight Sigiriya – a 5th-century plateau-top palace situated in Sri Lanka’s serpentine geological zone.
February 28, 2024Community Engagement, Events
The Center for Sustainable Democracy hosts Brazilian journalists for a two-week immersion program at USF
The Center for Sustainable Democracy, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, welcomed Brazilian journalists to USF for the Journalism & Democracy Immersion Program.
February 27, 2024Community Engagement, Events
History student Hannah Thieryung uses 3D scans to improve museum accessibility
As Hannah Thieryung works toward her Master of Arts degree from the Department of History, an internship with USF’s Access 3D Lab is helping her to improve accessibility at the historic May-Stringer House located in her hometown—bringing two of her passions together: history and accessibility.
February 27, 2024Accomplishments, Alumni, Community Engagement
15th Street Farm cultivates community health through innovative Nutrition Education Program
The 15th St. Farm NEP helps improve nutritional knowledge through farm/nature-based nutrition education activities such as a "Young Farmers" program, cooking/tasting classes, storytelling, presentations, and hands-on garden activities.
February 23, 2024Community Engagement, Research