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Inside the first days of USF’s response to the Marine Science Lab fire
After a major fire at the Marine Science Laboratory, USF worked to account for everyone, protect critical research and build a response structure to guide recovery in the months ahead.
June 16, 2026Campus News, Community Partnerships
Brewing Arts program enhances career training access to veterans
Veterans have shown a keen interest in the brewing arts for years. Now for the first time, eligible students may be able to use VA education benefits, including the GI Bill®, to enroll in USF’s Brewing Arts certificate program.
June 11, 2026Campus News, Community Partnerships
Bulls In The Burg June 2026 Community Relations Roundup
This community roundup series highlights the ways that USF St. Pete faculty, staff, students and administration are active in the community.
June 9, 2026Campus News, Community Partnerships, Events
Federal-university partnership advances coordinated human trafficking response to support victims
A new partnership between the primary federal law enforcement agency combatting human trafficking and USF aims to strengthen victim-centered response efforts within the state.
May 22, 2026Community Partnerships, Research and Innovation
Bulls In the Burg: May 2026 Community Relations Roundup
This community roundup series highlights the ways that USF St. Pete faculty, staff, students and administration are active in the community.
May 14, 2026Campus News, Community Partnerships, Events
Internship leads to Zoo School teaching job for new alum
On the same day a USF St. Petersburg videographer visited ZooTampa to interview a student about her internship, Madison Connell was offered a job. Connell, who graduated this spring, is now a teacher at the Florida Environmental Education Center or “Zoo School.”
May 13, 2026Campus News, Community Partnerships
USF students working with Florida Holocaust Museum to create exhibit on Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel
Students are helping to catalogue artifacts, correspondence, photographs and other material that will lead to a permanent museum exhibition on the life, works and teachings of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
April 30, 2026Community Partnerships
USF graduate helps brew first university-branded beer
What started as curiosity during visits to local breweries eventually led Brian Brown to help create the first USF-branded beer. Brown worked alongside classmates in the Brewing Arts program and brewers at Mastry's Brewing Co. to develop the St. Pete Pilsner, which will be featured at Bulls & Brews by the Bay.
April 15, 2026Campus News, Community Partnerships
USF to host stopover for the iconic Ocean Race
The University of South Florida will welcome a fleet of offshore sailing yachts to its campus in downtown St. Petersburg, as teams of extreme athletes sprint around the world for The Ocean Race 2027. The newly announced St. Pete-Clearwater stopover brings this iconic sailing race to the Gulf Coast for the first time.
March 18, 2026Campus News, Community Partnerships
Discovery of first St. Patrick’s Day leads to museum exhibition on the Irish in Florida
In 2018, USF St. Petersburg historian J. Michael Francis uncovered that the first known celebration of St. Patrick took place not in New York City or Boston or even Ireland, but St. Augustine, Fla. Now, that discovery has led to a new museum exhibition that highlights the Irish diaspora in east Florida.
March 16, 2026Community Partnerships, Research and Innovation
St. Petersburg Science Festival, MarineQuest returned to spark curiosity and spotlight careers shaping Tampa Bay’s future
Exciting hands-on experiments, exhibits and direct connections to emerging careers will take center stage at the St. Petersburg Science Festival and MarineQuest. The annual event along the waterfront of USF St. Petersburg attracts more than 10,000 community members.
February 3, 2026Community Partnerships, Events
Partnership with local brewery creates first USF-branded beer
For the first time, the public can now purchase a beer crafted with USF at its core – from its branding to its brewing process. Brewed by USF alumni at Mastry's Brewing, it features a student-designed label. A portion of all proceeds will go to support USF's Brewing Arts program.
January 22, 2026Campus News, Community Partnerships