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CAS makes clean sweep at 2026 Outstanding Young Alumni Awards

All six of this year’s Outstanding Young Alumni award recipients hold a degree from the College of Arts and Sciences, showcasing the college’s ability to produce innovative and creative alumni who achieve career success under the age of 36. The awards ceremony will take place in the Sam and Martha Gibbons Alumni Center on April 9.

April 3, 2026Alumni

USF named top producer of Gilman Scholars

The °®ÎŰ´«Ă˝ was recognized as one of the top 25 producers of Gilman Scholars in the United States, highlighting the university’s commitment to access, experiential learning and global opportunities for students.

March 31, 2026Alumni

USF hosts 2026 math bowls for Hillsborough County’s top students

Nearly a thousand of Hillsborough County’s top young mathematicians competed at USF, showcasing their speed, accuracy and problem-solving skills.

February 27, 2026Community Engagement, Events

Digitizing the past for the future: CAS collaboration helps protect the legacy of Black cemeteries

USF’s IDEx and the Black Cemetery Network are working with local leaders to map, digitize and protect Lake Maude Cemetery, ensuring long‑overlooked histories are accessible to descendants and researchers.

February 25, 2026Community Engagement, Featured, Research

2025 CAS graduate finds success on and off campus

A few months after he graduated from USF with degrees from the Department of Economics, the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies and the Judy Genshaft Honors College, Matheus Ivanesciuc stepped boldly into a career over 6,000 miles from his childhood home in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

February 23, 2026Alumni

Catching Up With Honors Alum Christopher Johnson

From the Peace Corps to classrooms across Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, °®ÎŰ´«Ă˝ Judy Genshaft Honors College alum Christopher Johnson has built a career rooted in international education.

February 16, 2026Alumni

Distinguished speakers from across the U.S. and beyond will convene at the largest global affairs conference in °®ÎŰ´«Ă˝ to dig into the new space race. This year's St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs explores how countries and companies are collaborating and competing for resources outside Earth’s orbit.

February 9, 2026Community Engagement, Events

USF Blue Humanities program sets sail with spring symposium

On Feb. 12, USF’s Blue Humanities program will launch its spring 2026 symposium, “Keywords in Blue Humanities,” with an event on the St. Petersburg campus.

February 9, 2026Community Engagement, Events

In the ground and on the line: Inside USF’s forensic anthropology “Buried Bodies” workshops

Two hours north of USF’s Tampa campus, USF‑FORT hosts the °®ÎŰ´«Ă˝ Institute for Forensic Anthropology & Applied Science’s "Buried Bodies” workshops, where investigators learn to excavate real human remains in the °®ÎŰ´«Ă˝ woods. It’s real‑world training that draws professionals from across the country, but now, with the land‑use agreement ending, the program that makes it possible faces an uncertain future.

January 29, 2026Community Engagement, Research

USF’s fifth president continues to create positive change for university and college

Betty Castor, who served as USF’s first female president from 1994-99, has become deeply engrained in the university’s past identity and future momentum.

January 29, 2026Community Engagement

Bellini’s new joint program with CAS promises better programmers

Starting in the 2026-27 academic year, students will have the incredible opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences from the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.

January 27, 2026Community Engagement

Anthropology professor honored with national John Lewis Award

Antoinette Jackson has earned the John Lewis Award for advancing history through community partnerships and public engagement.

January 27, 2026Accomplishments, Community Engagement