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USF’s Virtual Global Exchange Program on the rise
USF’s Virtual Global Exchange (VGE) program is on the rise, rapidly growing its global partnerships and bringing new collaborative experiences into the classroom.
December 18, 2025Faculty & Staff, Students
USF class uses cross-cultural exchange to examine each chapter of life
The course, "Happiness: Finding Meaning and Wellbeing through Cross-Cultural Perspectives," paired undergraduates with members of OLLI, the university’s lifelong learning program for older adults, to explore what it means to live a good life.
December 16, 2025Faculty & Staff, Students
USF study finds widespread rule-breaking in whale shark tourism hotspot
One of the world’s busiest whale-shark destinations is struggling to manage a boom in ecotourism. A new USF study finds the world’s biggest fish may be paying the price.
December 10, 2025Faculty & Staff
USF engineering research team tackles America’s hidden sanitation crisis with breakthrough wastewater technology
Daniel Yeh and the Honu Hub team are working on delivering a certified, industry-ready product with support from a $5 million NSF award.
December 2, 2025Faculty & Staff
Political science professor leverages Fulbright appointment to build bridges through civic education
Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan used her Fulbright appointment in Uganda to help launch a new U.S. studies center and strengthen communities at home and abroad through civic and political science education.
November 21, 2025Faculty & Staff
New study suggests accounting, not aliens, explains Peru’s mysterious ‘Band of Holes’
New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Peru’s puzzling “Band of Holes” — once featured in Ancient Aliens — was part of a sophisticated Indigenous network for storing and recording goods.
November 18, 2025Faculty & Staff
New study suggests accounting, not aliens, explains Peru’s mysterious ‘Band of Holes’
New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Peru’s puzzling “Band of Holes” — once featured in Ancient Aliens — was part of a sophisticated Indigenous network for storing and recording goods.
November 18, 2025Faculty & Staff
USF’s Dr. Heewon Gray elected vice president of leading international nutrition education society
Dr. Heewon Gray has been elected vice president of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB). The international organization represents nutrition educators, researchers and practitioners committed to advancing evidence-based nutrition education and health promotion worldwide.
November 7, 2025Faculty & Staff
New translation brings south Indian literature to English audiences for first time
USF Professor Gil Ben-Herut's draw to the work of the twelfth-century figure Hampeya Harihara — whose stories about followers of the Hindu deity Shiva inaugurated a new era in south Indian literature — inspired him to publish the first English translation of select Harihara works.
October 29, 2025Faculty & Staff
AI and citizen science reveal potential first detection of invasive malaria mosquito in Madagascar
Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi — an invasive and deadly malaria-carrying mosquito — ever detected in Madagascar.
October 28, 2025Faculty & Staff
Training initiative expands global support for school readiness program serving children with autism
The program provides parents with specialized tools, strategies, and ongoing support to better serve children on the autism spectrum worldwide.
October 17, 2025Faculty & Staff
Jerome Galea examines integration of traditional medicine in Peru’s public health system
Galea and his colleagues learned how the public health system responded to high maternal mortality rates in the Peruvian jungle.
October 15, 2025Faculty & Staff