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![La Florida offers a multidisciplinary view of colonial Florida’s rich history.](/news/images/la_florida_prize-small.jpg)
Innovative digital archive project receives Florida historic preservation award
The Florida Trust for Historic Preservation has selected La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archives of the Americas as a recipient of a 2024 Florida Preservation Award, praising the project for reshaping scholarship and providing groundbreaking access into the state's early history.
July 18, 2024Research and Innovation
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It all begins with a good story at the Living Heritage Institute
A good story doesn’t just captivate, it can also act as a catalyst for connecting individuals and addressing complex issues. That is the spirit behind the Living Heritage Institute, which seeks to combine storytelling with research that remembers the past and informs the present.
June 13, 2024Research and Innovation
![Julie Buckner Armstrong picture for 2024](/news/images/duckwallbuckner490x327.jpg)
USF English professor to co-edit Florida anthology as part of Duckwall Professorship
Julie Buckner Armstrong, known for her expertise in the civil rights movement and southern literature, has been named the Duckwall Professor of Florida Studies for the 2024-2026 academic years. As part of the Duckwall Professorship, Armstrong will begin focusing on her next book, an anthology of literary works from Florida.
June 6, 2024Campus News
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AAU membership helping accelerate USF’s impact
Throughout the last year, USF’s membership in the Association of American Universities has become a springboard to an array of benefits, from the successful recruitment and retention of world-class faculty and students to more corporations and community organizations inquiring and establishing new partnerships with the university.
May 28, 2024Campus News, Community Partnerships, Research and Innovation
![Streets are flooded in southwest Florida after Hurricane Irma hit in 2017](/news/images/cris-flooding-490-327.jpg)
USF receives $1.5 million national grant to develop app that identifies climate risks in vulnerable coastal communities
A $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant will allow researchers to develop a web-based application that gathers crowdsourced data in coastal communities to identify flooding risks and inform policy.
August 15, 2023Campus News, Community Partnerships, Research and Innovation
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Psychology professor receives prestigious congressional fellowship to work on Capitol Hill
Psychology Professor Tiffany Chenneville has been awarded the American Psychological Association’s Springfield Policy Congressional Fellowship, allowing her the opportunity to work on Capitol Hill for a year, utilizing her expertise in service of public policy.
June 2, 2023Campus News, Research and Innovation
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Governor signs bill making USF Trafficking in Persons lab state repository for human trafficking data
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill that appoints the USF Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Risk to Resilience Research Lab with collecting and analyzing statewide data to better understand the magnitude and trends in human trafficking across the state and over time.
May 17, 2023Research and Innovation
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Scientists identify 2022 sea urchin killer
The search for the 2022 killer that decimated the long-spined sea urchin population in the Caribbean and along Florida’s east coast is over. A team organized by a USF College of Marine Science researcher identified a single-celled organism called a ciliate as the cause of a massive die-off event.
April 19, 2023Research and Innovation
![Sharon Segrest](/news/images/sharon-490-327.jpg)
Professor wins faculty excellence award for research on dual career couples
Sharon Segrest, Professor of Management on the USF St. Petersburg campus, has received the Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award for her research on the attitudes of females and males in dual career couple scenarios.
April 13, 2023Campus News
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Anthropology professor will join push for more sustainable, comprehensive water policies at U.N. Water Conference
Anthropology Professor Heather O’Leary, an expert on global inequities in water politics, women’s rights, the environment and urbanization, has been selected as one of just 40 delegates for the International Science Council for the United Nations 2023 Water Conference.
March 16, 2023Research and Innovation
![University of South Florida: A Preeminent Research University](/news/images/judithanne-fl-this-week-490-327.jpg)
Political science professor chosen for Duckwall Professorship during important election cycle in Florida
The newest recipient for the 2022-2024 academic years is Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan, an associate professor in political science, a Fulbright Scholar and founding director of the Center for Civic Engagement at the St. Petersburg campus.
August 16, 2022Campus News
![Associate Professor Heather Judkins aboard the R/V Point Sur in Gulf of Mexico](/news/images/judkins-1-490-327.jpg)
USF professor discovers new species while part of team studying impact of oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico
Associate Professor Heather Judkins will continue her studies of cephalopods, such as octopus and squid, on July 26 as part of a team of scientists aboard the R/V Point Sur for a 12-day research cruise around the Gulf of Mexico. The group is studying the long-term effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
July 20, 2022Research and Innovation