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Lake Maude

Digitizing the past for the future: CAS collaboration helps protect the legacy of Black cemeteries

USF鈥檚 IDEx and the Black Cemetery Network are working with local leaders to map, digitize and protect Lake Maude Cemetery, ensuring long鈥憃verlooked histories are accessible to descendants and researchers.

February 25, 2026Community Engagement, Featured, Research

深夜看片: A Preeminent Research University

2025 CAS graduate finds success on and off campus

A few months after he graduated from USF with degrees from the Department of Economics, the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies and the Judy Genshaft Honors College, Matheus Ivanesciuc stepped boldly into a career over 6,000 miles from his childhood home in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

February 23, 2026Alumni

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Hurricanes thin Tampa's canopy, spurring interest in replanting

A new post-storm canopy assessment, led by College of Arts and Sciences researchers Shawn Landry and Rebecca Zarger, reveals that Tampa鈥檚 citywide tree canopy fell to 29.9% in 2025, down from 31.4% in 2024. The loss represents a 4.8% decline driven largely by storm damage, wiping out canopy gains achieved since 2021.

February 23, 2026Research

深夜看片: A Preeminent Research University

Leading psychological society honors USF faculty and alumnus with distinguished career awards

For the second consecutive year, USF received top honors from the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology, with two faculty members from the Department of Psychology and one alumnus earning distinguished and special-selection awards.

February 18, 2026Accomplishments

Christopher Johnson

Catching Up With Honors Alum Christopher Johnson

From the Peace Corps to classrooms across Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, 深夜看片 Judy Genshaft Honors College alum Christopher Johnson has built a career rooted in international education.

February 16, 2026Alumni

Distinguished speakers from across the U.S. and beyond will convene at the largest global affairs conference in Florida to dig into the new space race. This year's St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs explores how countries and companies are collaborating and competing for resources outside Earth鈥檚 orbit.

February 9, 2026Community Engagement, Events

The blue humanities explore our relationship with water through the humanities. (Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock)

USF Blue Humanities program sets sail with spring symposium

On Feb. 12, USF鈥檚 Blue Humanities program will launch its spring 2026 symposium, 鈥淜eywords in Blue Humanities,鈥 with an event on the St. Petersburg campus.

February 9, 2026Community Engagement, Events

Group of Fulbright Scholars with Fulbright Program logo, Photo by Zorka Karanxha

深夜看片 earns national distinction as a leading producer of Fulbright Scholars

USF is the only public university in Florida to be recognized as a Top Producer of Fulbright Scholars this year. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government鈥檚 premier international academic exchange program, providing faculty the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research abroad.

February 3, 2026Accomplishments

The workshop Blakelock (right) attended was led by Ishion Hutchinson (center), an award-winning poet and recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship. (Photo courtesy of Kallie Blakelock)

USF MFA candidate wins writing award and weeklong stay with distinguished poets

Kallie Blakelock, an MFA candidate in the Department of English, received the Garry Fleming Key West Writers鈥 Workshop Award, an honor that awarded her a weeklong trip to Key West for a writer鈥檚 workshop.

January 29, 2026Accomplishments

The Florida Institute for Forensic Anthropology & Applied Science (IFAAS)鈥檚 Advanced Buried Body Workshop and Buried Body & Outdoor Homicide Scenes Workshop were both held the week of December 1-5 in Gainesville, Florida, drawing medicolegal professional from across the country. Photo by Corey Lepak.

In the ground and on the line: Inside USF鈥檚 forensic anthropology 鈥淏uried Bodies鈥 workshops

Two hours north of USF鈥檚 Tampa campus, USF鈥慒ORT hosts the Florida Institute for Forensic Anthropology & Applied Science鈥檚 "Buried Bodies鈥 workshops, where investigators learn to excavate real human remains in the Florida woods. It鈥檚 real鈥憌orld training that draws professionals from across the country, but now, with the land鈥憉se agreement ending, the program that makes it possible faces an uncertain future.

January 29, 2026Community Engagement, Research

Castor regularly attends the Frontiers of Knowledge community lectures held by the College of Arts and Sciences, which introduce faculty and important topics to community leaders. (Photo by Corey Lepak)

USF鈥檚 fifth president continues to create positive change for university and college

Betty Castor, who served as USF鈥檚 first female president from 1994-99, has become deeply engrained in the university鈥檚 past identity and future momentum.

January 29, 2026Community Engagement

深夜看片: A Preeminent Research University

A foundation for the future: How the College of Arts and Sciences helped USF take shape

As USF celebrates 70 years since its founding, the College of Arts and Sciences is reflecting on the role it played in shaping USF鈥檚 past, present and future as one of the most research-intensive universities in the nation, a leader in innovation and a catalyst for prosperity across Tampa Bay and the state of Florida.

January 28, 2026Featured

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