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From class project to county policy: How a student’s proposal led to free bus rides for all veterans
What started as a class project, where students tackle a local issue and present their solution to the relevant governing body, has resulted in free public bus rides for all Pinellas County veterans.
June 1, 2023Student Research
New Emerging Technology Lab will allow students to explore augmented and virtual reality in the classroom
USF's College of Education wants to ensure students know how to utilize the latest technology through a new Emerging Technology Lab being developed on the St. Petersburg campus.
May 18, 2023Innovation, Research, Student Research
Global classroom collaboration with Moldova wins international partnerships award
A global classroom experience that brought together USF students with peers in Moldova to conduct joint research while an international humanitarian crisis was unfolding nearby received the inaugural International Partnerships Award from two political science associations.
May 11, 2023Global Research, Student Research
The dreams of three mothers live on through USF student research scholarship
Three emeritus professors from the USF College of Behavioral and Community Sciences are carrying on their mothers’ legacies through the creation of The Moms Project, a mentoring and scholarship program for undergraduate students who conduct research in areas that their mothers were passionate about: substance use disorders, nutrition and positive aging.
May 9, 2023Student Research
CBCS students recognized for outstanding research projects
Multiple students in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences were honored at the Student Research Awards Luncheon hosted by USF Research and Innovation.
May 8, 2023Honors and Awards, Student Research
Undergraduate students awarded funding for research projects
Nine CBCS students have received Undergraduate Research Scholarship Awards through The Moms Project and Florida High Tech Corridor.
May 1, 2023Student Research
USF Audiology and USF Health ENT faculty mentor Malawi audiology students
The students recently presented the findings of their collaborative research project.
May 1, 2023Global Research, Health, Student Research
Providing real-world experience of being a scientist
The environmental field methods course at USF St. Petersburg is designed to give aspiring scientists real-world experience collecting samples in the field and analyzing data in the lab.
April 21, 2023Research, Student Research
USF Humanities Institute sponsors undergrads for national research symposium
The USF Humanities Institute (HI) at the USF College of Arts and Sciences sponsored 23 undergraduate students to present original research at the Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium held at Johns Hopkins University in March.
April 18, 2023Research, Student Research
'The Lesson Is Murder': USF criminologist and graduate students debut true crime docuseries on Hulu
A new true crime docuseries, “The Lesson Is Murder,” follows University of South Florida criminology Associate Professor Bryanna Fox and her five graduate students as they show the reality of how researchers analyze convicted murderers’ personality traits and motives to develop psychological profiles.
March 23, 2023Research, Student Research
Black widows battle their even deadlier cousins in a brutal spider war
New study shows brown widow spiders actively seek and kill nearby black widows. The findings of the study, conducted by researchers at the University of South Florida are reported in an article to be published March 13 in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
March 13, 2023Research, Student Research
Who’s hunting the black widow spider? Their brown widow relatives, research shows
Researchers at the University of South Florida’s St. Petersburg campus found that in a container habitat, brown widows were 6.6 times more likely to attack black widows than other related species. The behavior is likely a driver of the black widow spider’s population decline.
March 13, 2023Research, Student Research
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