Scott PowersFebruary 7, 2019
5min445
UM also placed highly among the nation's top private research universities.
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Scott PowersFebruary 7, 2019
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 17, 2019
5min512
The facility is a collaboration between the school's medical and engineering colleges.
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 13, 2018
5min288
The Florida Board of Governors appointed real estate executive Mike Griffin chair of the University of South Florida’s Consolidation Planning Study and Implementation Task Force Thursday. Griffin will replace Dr. Jonathan Ellen who resigned earlier this week from both the task force and as CEO of All Children’s Hospital. The task force oversees recommendations for […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 5, 2018
4min366
Trustees at the University of South Florida approved the search requirements Tuesday for a new system president to replace Judy Genshaft who is retiring July 1. The board approved qualifications to seek a new university leader with a robust academic background, a feature requested from students and faculty since Genshaft announced her retirement earlier this […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 4, 2018
6min385
During its final meeting of 2018 Tuesday, the University of South Florida Board of Trustees outlined progress on and future steps for consolidating its three campuses — St. Petersburg, Sarasota/Manatee and Tampa — into one single accreditation. The three campuses currently work under separate accreditation, but the state passed a plan to integrate them earlier […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 13, 2018
5min403
The University of South Florida is joining a national effort to increase college access and boodt by hundreds of thousands the numbers of degrees awarded by the year 2025. USF will be part of a group of 130 public universities working together to close the achievement gap between minority, low-income students and their non-minority peers. […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 17, 2018
8min1040
Three Democratic federal lawmakers will work toward increasing water quality monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico and creating more wetlands to clean water flowing into the Gulf and other waterways. U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor and Charlie Crist, and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson crafted a preliminary action plan Wednesday after meeting with local scientists and business leaders about […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 8, 2018
6min408
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s U.S. Senate bid got some good news this week, thanks to a University of South Florida College of Marine Science report. A three-week red tide mission found abnormally cooler temperatures and increased salt content might have caused this year’s red tide outbreak. Scott is running against incumbent U.S. Senator Bill Nelson. Scott […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 3, 2018
5min475
Security model management company ReliaQuest is committing $1 million to the University of South Florida for cybersecurity labs at the school’s Muma College of Business. The million-dollar gift also buys the private company naming rights to the labs. The additional labs will address the local and national shortage of cybersecurity professionals. Only 45 percent of […]
Joe HendersonSeptember 10, 20186min470
Judy Genshaft has been many things during her nearly two decades as president of the University of South Florida. She has been relentless. Focused. She was the center of nearly every room she entered. She had a vision for USF that probably sounded ridiculous when she arrived on campus in 2000, but then made it […]