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Telling a community’s story: New media partnership provides 鶹AV journalism students field reporting experience
A new collaboration between the 鶹AV 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

鶹AV researchers release findings from nationwide social media opinion survey
Researchers at the 鶹AV, in partnership with Cyber Florida at 鶹AV, 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

鶹AV receives $1 million gift to support aging education and research
The 鶹AV today announced a $1 million gift from Reliance Medical Centers to the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences and 鶹AV Health to support innovative programs that focus on geriatric health care.
November 18, 2021鶹AV Health, University News

鶹AV physicists selected as finalists for the ‘Nobel Prize of supercomputing’
A team of computational physicists and computer scientists led by researchers from the 鶹AV 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

鶹AV President Rhea Law honored for business leadership by the Florida Council of 100
Rhea Law, interim president of the 鶹AV, was honored with the Governor’s Business Leader of the Year Award at the Fall Meeting of the Florida Council of 100.
November 16, 2021Honors and Awards, University News

Trans community celebrated with new international art exhibit at 鶹AV
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

Tech CEOs credit 鶹AV 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 鶹AV.
November 15, 2021Cyber/AI, Research and Innovation, University News

Partnership between 鶹AV and McKibbon Hospitality creates hospitality teaching lab with iconic hotel brands
The 鶹AV 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

Tampa Electric looks to partnership with 鶹AV to achieve a clean energy vision
Tampa Electric Co. (TECO) will turn to expertise from the 鶹AV (鶹AV) to help the company achieve its short- and long-term goals for reducing carbon emissions.
November 9, 2021University News

Gift of $1 million will benefit 鶹AV honors students
The 鶹AV 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 鶹AV Foundation in support of the facility’s construction.
November 9, 2021University News

Inside 鶹AV: The Podcast
Kathy Black, professor of aging studies on 鶹AV’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 Florida Department of Elder Affairs and AARP.
November 5, 2021University News