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Meet the new faculty helping power USF’s future

From AI-driven discovery to cutting-edge medical research, USF’s newest faculty are advancing bold ideas and preparing students for the future. Their arrival reflects the university’s continued momentum as a hub for world-changing innovation and academic excellence.

August 20, 2025College News, Global - Environmental - Genomic Health Sciences

A look through the microscope at malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi, a representative of the most geographically wide-spread malaria parasites, in human blood. The parasites are the dark-colored structures inside the cells.

USF researchers publish new genetic map of essential targets to defeat malaria

Malaria is an insidious disease, often slipping past our best defenses and killing an estimated 600,000 people a year around the world − 75 percent of whom are children barely five years old.

February 7, 2025Global - Environmental - Genomic Health Sciences, Research and Innovation

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Brooke Broxterman: Charting a course in public health and the Air Force

Air Force 1st Lt. Brooke Broxterman’s journey to USF’s College of Public Health (COPH) began in a place far from where she is today. Born in Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., the daughter of a military family, Broxterman spent her early years in Ohio before her family moved to Lakeland, Fla. She attended high school at the Harrison School for the Arts. Initially interested in a career in visual arts, she soon decided her calling was elsewhere.

November 12, 2024Alumni and Development

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