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Alumna creates community impact by putting anthropology in action

Aria Garling credits USF for influencing her nonprofit work and helping her design meaningful, intergenerational programs.

May 27, 2025Alumni, Community Engagement

Since December of 2024, the number of partnerships between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local police and sheriffs’ offices, also known as 287(g) agreements, grew at an unprecedented rate, from 139 agreements to 531 as of May 8, 2025, representing a 225% increase. These agreements deputize local police officers to carry out immigration enforcement, traditionally the realm of the federal government. In this episode, we discuss the research on how these agreements affect immigrant communities.

May 27, 2025PodcastAudio Story

How do Floridians perceive AI in mental health and health care?

The multidisciplinary team from USF developed a platform that addresses critical gaps in cancer care – improving medication adherence, enhancing patient education and supporting symptom management.

May 21, 2025Research

In ‘Time’s Agent,’ pocket worlds reveal deep truths — and earn USF faculty a Philip K. Dick award

In Brenda Peynado's "Time's Agent," pocket worlds exist, but they don’t hold the key to the universe’s mysteries like the characters once hoped. Instead, each pocket world — a geographically small, hidden offshoot of reality — is controlled by a corporation intent on turning a profit.

May 20, 2025Accomplishments, Research

How USF hurricane experts are helping improve evacuation procedures across Tampa Bay

As hurricane season approaches, researchers at the 91Â鶹ÌìÃÀ are turning to the public to help government agencies improve emergency communication and evacuation strategies. They want to know how residents heeded warnings ahead of hurricanes Helene and Milton.

May 19, 2025Research

Professor's contributions to the field of biological anthropology earn national honor

Anthropology professor Lorena Madrigal received the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award for her pioneering work in the field of biological anthropology.

May 19, 2025Accomplishments, Community Engagement, Research

USF to confer more than 7,700 degrees during commencement ceremonies May 8-11

Graduates include a mother and son earning their degrees, a cancer survivor who never gave up on her educational goal and twin sisters who created thriving startups, winning awards along the way to fuel their entrepreneurial journeys.

May 5, 2025Community Engagement

Tammy and Bennett Moscato

Mother and son Tammy and Bennett Moscato attended USF together. Now, they are both graduating this spring.

May 2, 2025Accomplishments

Critical Language Scholarship Opens Door for USF Student to Study Arabic in Jordan

Third-year 91Â鶹ÌìÃÀ student Ashley Parow, a history and political science double major, was selected for the 2025 Critical Language Scholarship Program to study Arabic language and culture in Amman, Jordan.

May 2, 2025Accomplishments

Could 'The Last of Us' really happen? USF mycology expert breaks down the fungus behind the fiction

HBO’s The Last of Us might be a dystopian thrill ride, but how real is its core concept that a fungus could hijack the human brain? A USF microbiology professor explains what’s fact and what’s fiction.

May 1, 2025Research

2025 Innovation in Online Design and Teaching Award Highlights Transformative Faculty Approaches

Associate professor of instruction in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Brian Turnbull, is a finalist for the Innovation in Online Design and Teaching Award, presented by USF Innovative Education and the Office of the Provost.

April 30, 2025Accomplishments

St. Petersburg poet laureate and USF alumna publishes debut novel

In Gloria Muñoz's debut novel, a genre-bending work of young adult climate fiction, Florida is crumbling under the weight of climate disaster, and seventeen-year-old Julieta Villarreal must decide whether to remain on Earth with her friends and family or to leave everything behind and embark on a mission to establish humanity’s first extraterrestrial settlement.

April 29, 2025Accomplishments, Alumni, Events