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A team of professors, musicians and students at USF is transforming complicated environmental data into powerful music compositions. After tackling critical issues like harmful algae blooms and red tide, the group has now composed music that highlights the environmental stressors affecting oysters in °®ÎÛ´«Ã½.
July 2, 2025Research and Innovation
From USF to the pros: Meet grad student and soccer star Vivianne Bessette
While pursuing a master’s degree in exercise science at USF, Vivianne Bessette helped lead Tampa Bay Sun FC to a championship title as a standout defender in the team’s inaugural season.
July 1, 2025Student Success
Important funding for USF in final state budget
The °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ will receive significant funding in °®ÎÛ´«Ã½â€™s 2025-26 state budget, supporting major initiatives in research, student success and campus development across all three campuses.
June 30, 2025University News
From classmates to soulmates: Three years, two degrees and one happily ever after
Jacqueline Benavides and Kyle Kelly met in 2022, the first year the online DBA program was offered at USF. The program gave them a path toward academic growth and, unexpectedly, toward each other.
June 30, 2025Campus Life
USF-developed technology analyzes facial expressions to identify childhood PTSD
Technology developed at the °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ offers a promising, privacy-preserving tool to help clinicians diagnose and track trauma in kids, especially those too young to express it.
June 30, 2025Research and Innovation
USF to advance its position as a leader in mental and behavioral health by creating a new research center named for Sen. Darryl Rouson
The Senator Darryl E. Rouson Center for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Research at USF will conduct rigorous research to advance the scientific understanding of the relationship between substance abuse and mental health issues, including improving treatment outcomes and reducing the societal impacts of substance abuse and mental health conditions.
June 25, 2025University News
USF building pipeline of researchers to develop technologies for aging adults in new summer program
Students at the °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ are spending their summer developing tech-driven solutions to improve the lives of older adults and their caregivers through a hands-on program hosted by USF’s Center for Innovation, Technology and Aging.
June 24, 2025Research and Innovation
How USF helped kickstart skateboarding in Tampa Bay
USF’s impact on Tampa Bay skateboarding is undeniable. Students embedded skateboarding into the area’s cultural DNA, designed the region’s first nationally known skatepark and helped the public recognize the sport’s historical value.
June 18, 2025Campus Life
USF student rocket team soars in national NASA competition
The °®ÎÛ´«Ã½'s Society of Aeronautics and Rocketry team completed a NASA Student Launch Competition and brought home an award for successfully designing and then sending a model rocket over 4,000 feet while transmitting data.
June 10, 2025Student Success
From classroom to command: USF student helping shape the future of national security
For May Birch, national security isn’t just a field of study—it’s a calling rooted in family, shaped by mentors and propelled by student leadership.
June 9, 2025Student Success
How social media is shifting the spread of hurricane information
It wasn’t long ago that people relied on news broadcasts for hurricane updates. Today, they can easily swipe through social media platforms for the latest information. A USF expert and local influencers weigh in on how that’s reshaping public safety and what you should watch out for this hurricane season.
June 5, 2025Research and Innovation
Will Weatherford and Mike Griffin reelected to USF Board of Trustees leadership roles
The °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ Board of Trustees will continue to be led by Will Weatherford and Mike Griffin after their reelection as chair and vice chair during today’s board meeting. Weatherford and Griffin, who have served as chair and vice chair since 2021, were each selected for an additional two-year term.
June 3, 2025University News