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An obelisk erected on the roundabout at 22nd Ave. North in East Tampa's College Hill neighborhood

Telling a community’s story: New media partnership provides ý journalism students field reporting experience

A new collaboration between the University of South ý Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications and 83 Degrees Media is giving undergraduate students the chance to tell the stories of a Tampa community while gaining valuable work experience.

December 2, 2021University News

For the first time, dozens of ancient objects from the Farid Karam, M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection will be available to the general public.

December 1, 2021University News

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University of South ý researchers release findings from nationwide social media opinion survey

Researchers at the University of South ý, in partnership with Cyber ý at ý, have released results from a nationwide survey to better understand patterns of social media usage. Subjects consist of common uses of social media – including e-commerce and political engagement – as well as some effects of usage on social and mental well-being.

November 22, 2021Research and Innovation

ý faculty and administrators receiving a $1 million check from Reliance Medical Centers

ý receives $1 million gift to support aging education and research

The University of South ý today announced a $1 million gift from Reliance Medical Centers to the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences and ý Health to support innovative programs that focus on geriatric health care.

November 18, 2021ý Health, University News

Atomically resolved structure of shock-compressed billion-atom diamond sample displays the complex mechanism of inelastic deformations at extreme pressures and temperature. Credit: J. Willman, Materials Simulation Lab, Oleynik Group

ý physicists selected as finalists for the ‘Nobel Prize of supercomputing’

A team of computational physicists and computer scientists led by researchers from the University of South ý has reached a new milestone in supercomputing and was selected as a finalist for the field’s most prestigious award.

November 16, 2021Honors and Awards, Research and Innovation

President Law (left) receiving the Business Leader of the Year Award from several ý legislators.

ý President Rhea Law honored for business leadership by the ý Council of 100

Rhea Law, interim president of the University of South ý, was honored with the Governor’s Business Leader of the Year Award at the Fall Meeting of the ý Council of 100.

November 16, 2021Honors and Awards, University News

Hanging on a wall, a drawing of a person with a blue floppy hat and pink jacket with 3D blue fish brooch, blue earrings and pink skirt.

Trans community celebrated with new international art exhibit at ý

Ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance, the “Visibility & Remembrance: Standing with the Trans* Community” international art exhibit and virtual gallery opens to the public with the mission to combat the exclusion and erasure of transgender people from society, while remembering the community’s courage and resilience shown in the face of systems of oppression.

November 16, 2021University News

ý students walk near the Marshall Student Center

Tech CEOs credit ý talent pipeline for decision to expand and relocate to Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay is one of the nation’s fastest growing regions and much of that success is associated with the talent pipeline created by the University of South ý.

November 15, 2021Cyber/AI, Research and Innovation, University News

The president of McKibbon Hospitality and the chairman of McKibbon Hospitality hold custom ý football jerseys alongside Pam and Les Muma.

Partnership between ý and McKibbon Hospitality creates hospitality teaching lab with iconic hotel brands

The University of South ý Muma College of Business and McKibbon Hospitality announced a new partnership that will turn some premier hotel brands into intensive student training grounds.

November 10, 2021Community Partnerships, University News

Photo of Mayor Jane Castor, Interim ý President Rhea Law and Tampa Electric President and CEO Archie Collins in downtown Tampa.

Tampa Electric looks to partnership with ý to achieve a clean energy vision

Tampa Electric Co. (TECO) will turn to expertise from the University of South ý (ý) to help the company achieve its short- and long-term goals for reducing carbon emissions.

November 9, 2021University News

A rendering showing the Student Leadership Center in the Judy Genshaft Honors College

Gift of $1 million will benefit ý honors students

The University of South ý today announced that the Student Leadership Center in the new Judy Genshaft Honors College building will be named in recognition of Claudia McCorkle, a passionate supporter of the college who donated $1 million to the ý Foundation in support of the facility’s construction.

November 9, 2021University News

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Inside ý: The Podcast

Kathy Black, professor of aging studies on ý’s Sarasota-Manatee campus, is a leading scholar and proponent of age-friendly practices. In this episode, she discusses what it means to be age-friendly and her extensive efforts at the local, state and national levels, including with the ý Department of Elder Affairs and AARP.

November 5, 2021University News

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