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$4.8M Mellon Foundation grant opens internship opportunities for USF humanities students

For the first time, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities — invited the University of South Florida to submit a proposal last spring for one of its humanities internship grants. The foundation awarded the college a five-year, $4.8 million grant that will support up to 900 students each year in otherwise unpaid internships. The beneficiaries will be undergraduate students majoring in humanities.

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Uncovering ocean tech

The Rising Tides Podcast” covers ocean research from space to the seafloor, including the use of buoys, satellites, and submersibles to advance marine science. Credit: Jay Law.

Designed for ocean experts and general audiences alike, “The Rising Tides Podcast” invites oceanographers to discuss their ground-breaking research.

Transforming waste

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A new partnership between USF St. Petersburg and the City of St. Petersburg will bring an industrial-sized composter to campus to process food waste.

Growing up digital

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Findings will help inform a 25-year national study that will track young people’s digital media use and wellbeing into adulthood.

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University of South Florida: A Preeminent Research University

In ‘Time’s Agent,’ pocket worlds reveal deep truths — and earn USF faculty a Philip K. Dick award

05/20/25 — In Brenda Peynado's "Time's Agent," pocket worlds exist, but they don’t hold the key to the universe’s mysteries like the characters once hoped. Instead, each pocket world — a geographically small, hidden offshoot of reality — is controlled by a corporation intent on turning a profit.

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How USF hurricane experts are helping improve evacuation procedures across Tampa Bay

05/19/25 — As hurricane season approaches, researchers at the University of South Florida are turning to the public to help government agencies improve emergency communication and evacuation strategies. They want to know how residents heeded warnings ahead of hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Lorena Madrigal, professor, (left) with Jonathan Bethard, associate professor, (right) — who nominated her — during the American Association of Biological Anthropologists awards ceremony in March 2025. (Photo courtesy of Lorena Madrigal)

Anthropology professor earns national recognition for contributions to the field of biological anthropology

05/19/25 — Anthropology professor Lorena Madrigal received the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award for her pioneering work in the field of biological anthropology.

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USF to confer more than 7,700 degrees during commencement ceremonies May 8-11

05/05/25 — Graduates include a mother and son earning their degrees, a cancer survivor who never gave up on her educational goal and twin sisters who created thriving startups, winning awards along the way to fuel their entrepreneurial journeys.

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