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If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught me anything, it has been how much I love the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ community. Its unique camaraderie, intimacy and diversity attracts many students, like myself, to USF. Now, three months absent of these defining interpersonal aspects, I reflect on my experience as a аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢student during the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 22, 2020COVID-19, Campus Life
The significance of Juneteenth
аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢President Steven C. Currall addresses the significance of Juneteenth, a 155-year-old holiday celebrating the emancipation of African-Americans from slavery in the U.S.
June 19, 2020University News
аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢audiologists address COVID-19 challenges for the hearing impaired with new face masks
Face masks have dramatically changed the way many of us communicate in public. The CDC recommends we wear them to prevent against the spread of COVID-19. That extra layer of protection does have a few side effects, especially for the hearing impaired. Face masks can reduce sound by as much as 12 decibels and block one’s facial expressions from being seen.
June 18, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
The аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ Health Morsani College of Medicine recently received more than $4 million, the largest single gift to scholarships in the history of the medical college. The gift from the late Dr. Jack F. Ross will benefit the medical scholarship that bears his name.
June 17, 2020аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Health, University News
COVID-19 adds urgency to аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢researchers’ high-tech solution to nursing home care crisis
A аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢interdisciplinary team was building a predictive analytics tool to help nursing homes manage staffing shortages when the pandemic presented a new challenge.
June 16, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ invests $20 million to promote academic progress for student success
The аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢, a national leader in student success, will make an unprecedented investment of $20 million to help students who are experiencing financial hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic remain on a path to timely graduation. The university has begun awarding the We Got U-SF Scholarship and Waiver to nearly 22,000 eligible undergraduate and graduate students to encourage full-time enrollment in the fall semester.
June 16, 2020COVID-19, University News
Community benefactors and retired businesswomen Kate Tiedemann and Ellen Cotton have donated $1 million to the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ Foundation to create an endowed professor position at USF’s St. Petersburg campus.
June 15, 2020University News
A recently published nationwide study by two аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ professors indicates that blacks are five times more likely and Latinos four times more likely to fear police brutality than whites.
June 15, 2020Research and Innovation
USF's consolidation plan approved
The аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ achieved a historic milestone today as the Executive Council of our accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), approved our plan to consolidate our three campuses.
June 12, 2020University News
Accrediting agency approves аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ consolidation
The аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅϢ’s plan to consolidate its three campuses was granted approved today by the executive council of the regional accrediting agency that oversees higher education in the southern United States.
June 12, 2020University News
Developing a wearable device to detect COVID-19 progression in at-risk patients
A new study from researchers at the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ is shedding light on the human body’s physiological response to COVID-19, insight scientists say could help them develop an early warning system for those most at risk of severe infection.
June 12, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢appoints new dean for College of The Arts
The аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ today announced Chris Garvin as the new dean for the College of The Arts, which consists of the Schools of Architecture & Community Design, Art & Art History, Music, and Theater and Dance.
June 12, 2020University News