News
Article Listing
Viewing items with Category: All Categories, Year: All Years
USF to confer more than 2,600 degrees during commencement ceremonies on Aug. 8
The University of South Florida will award more than 2,600 degrees during summer commencement ceremonies on Aug. 8. The group features 22 undergraduate students earning a perfect 4.0 grade point average, 77 student veterans and graduates from 19 countries and 39 states.
August 4, 2026Campus News
Overcoming a lifetime of challenges, USF graduate achieves another milestone
After overcoming scholarship setbacks and barriers associated with cerebral palsy, Tyvelle Dorvil turned personal challenges into a passion for accessibility advocacy while achieving his dream of earning a college degree.
August 3, 2026Campus News
Summer in Seoul furthers international partnership through immersive, global learning
More than 40 students immersed themselves in the rich history and culture of Korea during a summer semester program in the nation’s capital of Seoul.
July 23, 2026Student Life
Summer camps provide immersive learning, campus living for local high school students
For the first time, USF St. Petersburg hosted the Rocky’s Residents program, providing local high school students the chance to experience college life firsthand while exploring the fields of criminology, law, entrepreneurship and marine science.
July 15, 2026Campus News
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
A spring break giving back
While many students took a break from studies during spring break to visit family or vacation with friends, a group of nine from USF St. Petersburg traveled to Asheville and were reminded why service truly matters.
March 26, 2026Campus News, Student Life
Acting comes to USF St. Petersburg
The first acting class at USF St. Petersburg explores the basic elements of theater, with students developing greater confidence, command of their voice and essential public speaking experience.
March 11, 2026Campus News
USF helping to restore Tampa Bay’s oyster populations by 3D-printing habitats
Along the seawall of Bayboro Harbor, a group of USF students and professors recently installed 3D-printed habitats they hope will soon house oysters that can filter thousands of gallons of water per day and improve both water quality and ecosystem health.
March 9, 2026Research and Innovation, Sustainability
Bulls Racing ignites passion for cars
Every year, members of the Bulls Racing team design and manufacture a race car from scratch for a national competition. With the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg next door to campus, we profile the team and the students who have a passion for cars.
February 27, 2026Student Life
Unraveling the web of brown recluse myths in Florida
USF alum Louis Coticchio and Associate Professor Deby Cassill show the brown recluse spider shouldn’t be portrayed as a villain. Their newly published findings aim to change the narrative by debunking common myths.
February 25, 2026Research and Innovation
Rare, giant millipedes unearthed in graduate student's conservation research
Before scientists knew how many Florida scrub millipedes remained in the wild, a quiet breakthrough occurred in a USF lab when the rare species reproduced in captivity. The success is the result of conservation research led by graduate student Anne Sawl, whose work is revealing long-missing information about a species found nowhere else in the world.
January 15, 2026Campus News, Research and Innovation