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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation Matches $15,000 Gift for the °®¶¹´«Ã½ Black Leadership Network
Jerry Bell, former tight end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and his wife, Ruth, a °®¶¹´«Ã½ alumna, were among the founding members of the Black Leadership Network at °®¶¹´«Ã½. The Bells contributed $15,000 earlier this month to grow the BLN Bell Family scholarship.
March 4, 2019University News
°®¶¹´«Ã½ Foundation CEO Joel Momberg Announces Retirement
Senior Vice President and CEO of the University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½ Foundation Joel Momberg has announced he’ll be retiring this fall.
March 4, 2019University News
Becoming a Model for Student Success
For nearly a decade, the University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½ has been on a purposeful path to better help its students succeed. This transformative effort resonates through every office, classroom and building on campus, resulting in record-breaking improvements to student success.
February 28, 2019University News
Famed Author Judy Blume Contributes to °®¶¹´«Ã½ Creative Writing Publication
A short passage from acclaimed author Judy Blume is in the 2019 issue of Saw Palm, a °®¶¹´«Ã½ student-run literary and art journal. The submission was prompted by a postcard sent from °®¶¹´«Ã½ library’s digital postcard collection, which featured a waterside scene of young women fishing.
February 25, 2019University News
Netflix Cofounder Marc Randolph Offers Up a Primer to Entrepreneurs at the Muma College of Business Thought Leader Series
You don’t have to be especially gifted to come up with the next big idea. You don’t have to have an MBA, or live in Silicon Valley; you don’t have to be a world traveler or have an engineering degree. You don’t even have to be particularly smart, Mark Randolph told a large crowd at the second °®¶¹´«Ã½ Muma College of Business Thought Leader Series on Thursday afternoon.
February 21, 2019Campus Life
Historians Turn to Social Media to Identify Artifact Potentially Used in Organized Crime
Advanced technologies used to study human history may not be enough to solve the mystery behind an early 20th century roulette wheel. That’s why researchers at the University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½â€™s Institute for Digital Exploration in Tampa are turning to crowd curation to help identify the peculiar artifact.
February 18, 2019Research and Innovation
Turning a Lottery Windfall into Opportunities for Others
A University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½ alumnus is sharing his multi-million-dollar lottery winnings with the College of Engineering to help financially support students there.
February 18, 2019University News
Recent °®¶¹´«Ã½ Graduate Awarded a Prestigious Gates Cambridge International Scholarship
Shawn Zamani, who came to the U.S. only six years ago knowing very little English, becomes one of a small group of students in the nation to receive this award.
February 14, 2019Honors and Awards, °®¶¹´«Ã½ Health, University News
Riding Into the Future
An autonomous shuttle is being tested at the University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½ campus in a first-of-its-kind research trial run by °®¶¹´«Ã½â€™s Center for Urban Transportation Research.
February 12, 2019Research and Innovation
Four °®¶¹´«Ã½ Faculty Members Named Inaugural National Academy of Inventors Senior Members
Four °®¶¹´«Ã½ faculty members whose inventions are on the cutting edge of discovery in environmental technology, metabolic therapies, drug discovery and assistive devices were announced Monday as new members of the inaugural class of the National Academy of Inventors Senior Members.
February 11, 2019Honors and Awards, Research and Innovation, °®¶¹´«Ã½ Health, University News
°®¶¹´«Ã½ Named the Nation’s Top Producer of Fulbright Scholars
The University of South °®¶¹´«Ã½ is the number one producer of Fulbright Scholars in the United States for 2018-2019, according to a new list released Monday.
February 11, 2019University News
°®¶¹´«Ã½ St. Petersburg is once again the co-organizer and host of the renowned St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs February 12-15.
February 5, 2019University News