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THE STATUS OF AIR QUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

About a year ago, in March 2020, companies and organizations around the world shut down or significantly limited production of goods and services as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures that followed. In doing this, fewer cars were on the road and high-emission operations decreased.

April 16, 2021Supporting

新澳门六合彩内幕信息: A Preeminent Research University

TWO DECADES OF MATHEMATICAL RESEARCH IN ALGEBRAS CULMINATES IN RESEARCH PAPER

Hemant Pendharkar, Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息, recently co-authored a research article with Dr. Don Hadwin, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of New Hampshire, entitled "Central Sequences in Subhomogeneous Unital C* Algebras", published by Cambridge University Press.

April 16, 2021Accomplishments

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UNDERGRADUATE HUMANITIES RESEARCH CONFERENCE GOES DIGITAL FOR 2021

At the end of January 2021, 52 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 (USF) undergraduate students from 13 different majors, ranging from religious studies to biomedical sciences, gathered online to present their original research projects on a huge variety of humanities topics.

April 16, 2021Community Engagement

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新澳门六合彩内幕信息ENGLISH PROFESSOR AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS WINDHAM CAMPBELL PRIZE

Assistant Professor Natalie Scenters-Zapico was recently awarded the prestigious Windham Campbell Literature Prize at Yale University. The prize recognizes her two collections of poetry,The Verging Cities(2016) andLima :: Limon(2019). It also comes with an unrestricted grant of $165,000.

April 16, 2021Accomplishments

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ALCOHOL USE AND DEATH INCREASE DURING THE PANDEMIC

Dr. Lindsey Rodriguez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, was recently quoted in an NBC News article about the pandemic and the relation to increase in alcohol related deaths among women.

December 9, 2020Accomplishments, Research

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ANALYZING PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE AMONG SARASOTA RESIDENTS AFTER HURRICANE IRMA

Dr. Feng Hao, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 (USF), recently worked with two Sarasota-Manatee campus undergraduate students, Daniel Hinkle and Ron Hans, and a colleague from Nankai University in China, Yan Wang, to study the public perception of climate change after Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in September 2017.

December 9, 2020Supporting

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ATOMICALLY THIN VAN DER WAALS MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS COULD REVOLUTIONIZE QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE

Current mobile phones, computers, and electronic appliances operate based on field-effect transistors (FETs) that use an electric field to switch on/off a charge current of electrons in a nonmagnetic semiconductor, encoding information in the 1/0 digital state.

December 9, 2020Research

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BUILDING RESEARCH COMMUNITIES IN THE TIME OF COVID-19: MOBILIZING FOR RESEARCH

In March 2020 the global health crisis caused by COVID-19 changed our lives, including the way we approach research, teaching and community engagement. Having worked on health and migration issues for years, Beatriz Padilla, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息, was desperate to jump in.

December 9, 2020Research

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鈥淐HOOSING MYSELF鈥: SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION CURRICULUM AVAILABLE FOR YOUNG WOMEN IN FOSTER CARE

Dr. Jill McCracken, Professor of English and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息, is the founder of the Adolescent Sexual Health Education and Research (ASHER) Program and has launched 鈥淐hoosing Myself,鈥 a sexual health education program for females currently or previously in foster care.

December 9, 2020Community Engagement

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COMPLEX RIGHTS AND WRONGS: THE STORIES WE DENY IN MAINSTREAM UNDERSTANDINGS OF PROSTITUTION AND TRAFFICKING IN THE SEX INDUSTRY

Dr. Jill McCracken, Professor of English and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息, is currently involved in a study that explores how U.S. legislative and carceral approaches to trafficking in the sex industry (鈥榮ex trafficking鈥) impact victims of trafficking and adult consensual sex workers.

December 9, 2020Research

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IMPACT OF PANDEMIC POLICIES ON TAMPA BAY REFUGEES

Beginning in April 2020, a team of graduate students from the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 (USF) Department of Anthropology, and multilingual community leaders including Dr. Dillon Mahoney, Dr. Roberta Baer, Dr. Krista Billingsley, Renice Obure, Michaela Inks, and Eugenie Umurutasate began an assessment of the impacts of pandemic policies on refugees in Hillsborough County.

December 9, 2020Supporting

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LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR LEARNING LANGUAGES IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect numerous aspects of daily life everywhere, the act of traveling, too, has continued to be limited. For university students who had planned on studying abroad and families who had planned trips internationally, the prospect of cancelling flights, hotels, and all other plans has become a near certainty, at least for the time being.

December 9, 2020Research

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