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Inside Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV: The Podcast
Mike Griffin, vice chair of the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Board of Trustees and chair of the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Presidential Search Committee, updates the committee's work, including the strong response to a community survey – more than 1,000 in just a few days. The committee plans to extend the deadline for submission of the survey.
September 24, 2021University News
Meet Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV’s Cade Prize Candidate: Startup SPKL unites old friends in a quest to develop new medical technology
A friendship formed in middle school a half a world away is the foundation for a new Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV startup working to bring better blood flow measurement technology to market.
September 22, 2021Research and Innovation
Hispanic heritage is an integral part of Florida history. Within Tampa, Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Colombian, Spanish, and Puerto Rican cultures and influences have shaped the city. In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we want to recognize some of the icons that have contributed to shaping our city through business, government, education, and sports.
September 20, 2021University News
Esports enhances its visibility at Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Esports will soon have a physical presence on the Tampa campus. Located inside the Recreation and Wellness Center, the 2,500-square-foot Esports Living Lab will feature 40 PCs and will be divided into spaces for casual gaming and watch parties, content creation and competitive gaming.
September 20, 2021Campus Life, University News
New jellyfish species named after FIO director, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV professor
His expertise in jellyfish is so renowned, Monty Graham, director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography and professor of integrative biology at Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV, has a new species of jellyfish bearing his name – the Aurelia montyi.
September 17, 2021Research and Innovation
The legacy of a nursing trailblazer
Geraldine McKinnon Twine, a retired nurse practitioner and Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV alumna, broke barriers in nursing during a segregated era, becoming the first black nurse to integrate Tampa General Hospital. Her dedication to education and service inspired her children to achieve academic success, with one establishing an endowed scholarship at Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV in her honor.
September 16, 2021Student Success, Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Health
Researchers, legislators and law enforcement leaders came together at the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV St. Petersburg campus to celebrate the grand opening of a research lab devoted to studying human trafficking in the state.
September 16, 2021University News
Commercialization of Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV-invented sanitation system set to begin
The latest version of the Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV-invented NEWgenerator is on its way to South Africa to begin the process of entering mass production. The solar-powered machine generates nutrients, energy and water by safely recovering them from human wastewater – a technology built to address global sanitation concerns.
September 15, 2021Research and Innovation
Gift of more than $500,000 in cutting-edge technology equipment will benefit Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV mass communications students, faculty
The Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV today announced a gift from Diamond View Studios and VÅ« Technologies to the College of Arts and Sciences to support virtual production education and training in the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications.
September 15, 2021University News
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Presidential Search Committee holds its first meeting
The 15-member Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV Presidential Search Committee has met for the first time, which included an overview of the search process and an initial discussion with the search firm, SP&A Executive Search.
September 15, 2021University News
Nearly 150 students on the St. Petersburg campus are in the prestigious college that provides an intimate, discussion-based learning experience with greater experiential and research opportunities.
September 14, 2021University News
Â鶹ÃÛÌÒAV professor invited to join UN and UNESCO advisory group on genocide education in Africa
Due to his depth and breadth of knowledge in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies, Edward Kissi, associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, has been invited by the United Nations (UN) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to become a member of their Advisory Group on Genocide Education in Africa.
September 14, 2021Research and Innovation