2025 tampa campus events

USF Week Kickoff & Talent show

Monday, April 7, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM | Marshall Student Center Ballroom

USF Week is finally here, and it's time to start the celebration with one of USF's biggest traditions. Join us in the MSC Ballroom on April 7th at 6:30 PM to show your school spirit and appreciation. Kickoff is your chance to hang with Rocky, make memories, meet the USF Leadership Pageant winners, enjoy free food, see the Spirit Squad perform, grab promotional items, and hear amazing speakers who will talk about the importance of USF Week! If you enjoy watching talent competitions, make sure to stick around for the Ultimate Bull Talent Show. 

Sponsored and brought to you by the Campus Activities Board in the Center for Student Involvement.

USF Giving Week

Monday, April 7 - Friday, April 11, 2025 | Find your favorite cause!

USF Giving Week is an annual event where alumni, friends and students of the university come together to champion a wide variety of programs, to boost student success, scholarships, research and more.

During this week of giving we are encouraging donors to help stock our on-campus food pantries and Suit-A-Bull closet — essential resources which provide free food and professional clothing to USF students.

graduate & professional student appreciation week

Monday, April 7 - Friday, April 11, 2025 | Learn more!

The Office of Graduate Studies and Graduate & Professional Student Council host several events for graduate and professional students throughout celebrating the impact graduate students make in their colleges, departments, labs, classrooms, and offices.

civic conversations series: peace corps service

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM | MSC 3308, The Collaboratory

Meet Peace Corps alum Deirdre Miller who will share her experience as a Peace Corps volunteer. Hear about her path to Peace Corps, her training and field experience, and reflections as she looks back on a successful term of service. You'll also get to learn about the significant benefits of Peace Corps service. Space is limited so register today! 

Sponosred and brought to you by the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement and USF World.

University Lecture Series 

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 | 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Marshall Student Center Ballroom

Lana Candor is a trailblazing Vietnamese American actress and prodcuer, best known for her role in Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before triology, which redefined Asian American representation in Hollywood. Beyond acting, she advocates for girls' education in Vietnam through the Obama Foundation's Girls Opportunity Alliance.

Doors for the Marshall Student Center Grand Ballroom will open at 7:30 PM! The event is open to everyone, and seats will be given on a first-come basis with a prioritization for students. Students will also have the opportunity to ask questions relating to the speakers career and achievements!

Sponsored and brought to you by the Campus Activities Board in the Center for Student Involvement.

Bull Market

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Marshall Student Center Bookstore Lawn

After over 25 years on campus, Bull Market has become one of the largets and oldest traditions at USF. Bull Market hosts a combination of student organization, USF departments, Tampa Bay businesses and not-for-profits at an open air, weekly market to promote their events and services to the student population at USF.

Sponsored and brought to you by the Marshall Student Center.

STAMPEDE SPLASH

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM | The Fit

Dive into our Stampede Splash event! Get ready for shark water slides, a Sharknado showing, mechanical shark, pizza, shark mocktails, and endless fun with the return of our legendary pool party tradition.

Sponsored and brought to you by both the Campus Activities Board in the Center for Student Involvement and Recreation & Wellness.

lunchtime leadership series: Tallahassee Museum

Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM | MSC 3308, The Collaboratory

The Lunchtime Leadership Series is a CLCE program where Tampa Bay community and corporate partners who practice ethical, empowering, and inclusive leadership are invited to discuss leadership as it is practiced within their organization. This program encourages student persistence by creating a pathway for connections between students and the wider Tampa Bay community. It allows them to see the value of NACE competencies in action. We invite participation from all who want to learn how Tallahassee Museum practices leadership.

Sponsorsed and brought to you by the Center for Leadership & Civic Engagement.

Rocky's Birthday Bash

Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Marshall Student Center

Celebrate Rocky's birthday bash, in collaboration with Annual Giving, with strength and honor at Rocky's Gladiatorial Games!  Challenge your friends on the inflatable obstacle course or battle it out with an inflatable joust. Try your hand at arrow tag and inflatable axe throwing. Craft laurel wreath crowns, paint your own mini sheild, make sand bottle art, and adopt a rhino stuff-a-plush. Eat Greek food and birthday cake while watching Gladiator II (2024). Take pictures with Rocky and wish your favorite mascot a happy birthday! Are you not entertained?

Sponsored and brought to you by both the Campus Activities Board in the Center for Student Involvement and Annual Giving.

BULLSTOCK CONCERT

Friday, April 11, 2025 | Event time 5:00 PM - 11:30 PM | USF Tampa campus - Lot 35

Enjoy USF’s annual spring music festival featuring performances from artists and the winners of the 2025 USF Battle of the Bands. We will have attractions, giveaways, and food trucks at the event. 

Check out the performance schedule down below:

Gates Open - 5:00 PM
Gloomchild: 5:15-5:45 PM
Battle of the Bands Winner: 6:00-6:30 PM
Battle of the Bands Winner: 6:45-7:15 PM
Battle of the Bands Winner: 7:30-8:00 PM
Blusher: 8:15-9:00 PM
Destin Laurel: 9:15-10:00 PM
Grouplove: 10:15-11:15 PM

Event Policies and Expectations:

• Bullstock is a FREE concert intended for USF students, staff, and faculty
• Attendees are encouraged to bring their USF IDs
• Personal bags that are smaller than 12x12x12" will be permitted inside event, while large bags, backpacks, wrapped packages, etc. will not be permitted inside the venue.
• Guests may not bring food and/or beverages into the event. Guests must dispose of the unauthorized items prior to entering the facility.
• Please continue to check this page as policies are subject to change.

Sponsored and brought to you by the Campus Activities Board in the Center for Student Involvement.

Football Student Appreciation Practice

Friday, April, 11, 2025 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Indoor Practice Facility 

riverfest

Saturday, April 12 | 12:00 - 4:00 PM | Riverfront Park (Transportation provided from the MSC Bus Loop) | Learn More!

Food Trucks, Free Boating, High Ropes Course, Pool Pong, Field Games, and Scavenger Hunt (first 50 people to complete this get a prize). Hourly events include:

12:30 – Zipline
1:30 – Arts & Crafts
2:30 – Group Fitness Class
3:30 – Guided Paddle

Sponsored and brought to you by Recreation & Wellness