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°®¶¹´«Ã½ EXPANDS STUDY WITH SEX WORKERS AND VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING
In early 2020 Dr. Jill McCracken, Professor of English and Women and Gender Studies at the University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½, received a $50,000 grant from the Proteus Fund to explore prostitution and trafficking legislation and policies in the United States and document their impact on those who are most affected by existing legislation: consensual sex workers, victims of trafficking, and those whose experiences intersect with both categories.
January 21, 2022Supporting
ZIMMERMAN SCHOOL SENIOR INSTRUCTOR EARNS ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP
Wayne Garcia, a Senior Instructor in the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications at °®¶¹´«Ã½, was recently named the James A. Clendinen Professor in Editorial and Critical Writing in the Zimmerman School, effective immediately for a two-year term.
January 21, 2022Accomplishments
NEW BOOK DETAILS RELIGIOUS MOBILIZATION BY POLITICAL PARTIES
Luis Felipe Mantilla, Associate Professor with the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½ St. Petersburg campus, recently published his book How Political Parties Mobilize Religion: Lessons from Mexico and Turkey.
September 1, 2021Accomplishments
NEW BOOK HIGHLIGHTS PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION AND RESULTING PUBLIC IMPACT
The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times is the latest addition to the Digital Politics series from Oxford University Press.
September 1, 2021Accomplishments
NEW GRANTS COULD TRANSFORM SCIENTISTS' UNDERSTANDING OF DNA
Two charitable foundations have announced their support of research at the Georgia Institute of Technology that could change the basic understanding of DNA, potentially leading to new treatments for degenerative diseases.
September 1, 2021Accomplishments
NOVEL PROGRAM IDENTIFIES FOOD INSECURE RESIDENTS WITH HELP FROM °®¶¹´«Ã½ CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF FOOD SECURITY & HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
Food insecurity refers to the lack of access to nutritionally adequate food which can result in hunger as well as in an increased likelihood of chronic diet-related diseases (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease).
September 1, 2021Supporting
SMALL ISLAND, GLOBAL IMPACT: THE GROWTH OF IRISH STUDIES AT °®¶¹´«Ã½
Ireland is a country that is deceptively small on the map in relation to its substantial global impact. In the medieval period, it was a cradle of European intellectualism, sending premier scholars to courts all over the globe.
September 1, 2021Supporting
°®¶¹´«Ã½ ANTHROPOLOGISTS FACILITATE COVID-19 VACCINATIONS FOR TAMPA’S REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS
After years of research with refugee and immigrant communities, °®¶¹´«Ã½ anthropologists are now pivoting their efforts to ensure that Tampa’s hard-to-reach populations have access to free COVID-19 vaccinations.
September 1, 2021Supporting
°®¶¹´«Ã½ PROFESSOR INVITED TO JOIN UN AND UNESCO ADVISORY GROUP ON GENOCIDE EDUCATION IN AFRICA
In 1994, more than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists, a group targeting members of the minority Tutsi community and other political opponents, regardless of their ethnic origin.
September 1, 2021Featured
°®¶¹´«Ã½ PROFESSOR TAPPED TO CURATE HIP-HOP COLLECTIONS FOR THE SMITHSONIAN
Dr. Aisha Durham, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, currently serves as an advisor for the National Museum of African American History and as recently selected to curate the first multimedia hip hop collection to chronicle the development of the culture for the Smithsonian Institute.
September 1, 2021Accomplishments
Back translation saves lives: °®¶¹´«Ã½ team translates critical vaccine information
As researchers, we often think of back-translation, or translation checking as a burden, but back-translation can actually save lives! The multilingual (Swahili, Kinyarwanda, French, English) team at the University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½ (°®¶¹´«Ã½) has been working with Refugees from the Congo Wars (RFCWs) in the United States for six years.
April 16, 2021Featured
CELEBRATING THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AT °®¶¹´«Ã½
Darwin Days at the University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½ (°®¶¹´«Ã½) is an extensive, interactive, and interdisciplinary science education outreach event hosted each year to encourage understanding of evolution.
April 16, 2021Community Engagement