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After tackling critical issues like algae blooms and red tide, the group has now composed music that highlights the environmental stressors affecting oysters in Florida.</media:description><media:thumbnail url="https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/images/2025/oysters-music-beach-490x327.jpg" /><media:keywords>Apollo beach with oyster bed and sheet music on top</media:keywords></media:content><guid>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2025/floridas-oyster-crisis-takes-center-stage-in-latest-musical-science-project.aspx</guid><categories>Campus News,Research and Innovation</categories><tags>Anthropology,Art,Awards,Faculty,Marine Science,Music,STEM,Sarah Sell,Science</tags></item><item><title>A resilient year: Top stories from 2024</title><link>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/a-resilient-year-top-stories-from-2024.aspx</link><description>This calendar year was full of institutional achievements, international headlines, inventive research and an unprecedented campus response to a historic hurricane season.</description><author>USF St. Petersburg</author><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:22:48 </pubDate><media:content url="https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/images/2024/year-in-review-2024-hero-490.jpg" type="image/jpg"><media:title>A resilient year: Top stories from 2024</media:title><media:description>This calendar year was full of institutional achievements, international headlines, inventive research and an unprecedented campus response to a historic hurricane season.</media:description><media:thumbnail url="https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/images/2024/year-in-review-2024-hero-490.jpg" /><media:keywords>Top stories from a resilient year.</media:keywords></media:content><guid>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/a-resilient-year-top-stories-from-2024.aspx</guid><categories>Campus News,Research and Innovation</categories><tags>Anthropology,Art,Business,Commencement,Criminology,Journalism,Marine Science,Music,Student Success</tags></item><item><title>An interdisciplinary team of faculty and students turns environmental impact data into music</title><link>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/music-data-crescendo-concert.aspx</link><description>USF Anthropologist Heather O’Leary turned her coastal impact data into music that people could understand and enjoy. 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The project, CRESCENDO, is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students working together to create and disseminate moving music about the environment.</media:description><media:thumbnail url="https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/images/2024/usf-tampa-symphony.jpg" /><media:keywords>CRESCENDO team after concert </media:keywords></media:content><guid>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/music-data-crescendo-concert.aspx</guid><categories>Campus News,Research and Innovation,Sustainability</categories><tags>Anthropology,Art,Data Analytics,Economics,Education,Environmental Science,Hospitality,Marine Science,Music,Sarah Sell,Science</tags></item><item><title>Global affairs conference explored how artificial intelligence is changing the world</title><link>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/conference-world-affairs-2024.aspx</link><description>Distinguished speakers from around the world discussed issues related to international relations, business, culture and climate change through the lens of artificial intelligence at the largest conference on global affairs in the Tampa Bay region.</description><author></author><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 09:45:21 </pubDate><media:content url="https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/images/2024/events-world-affairs-490-327.jpg" type="image/jpg"><media:title>Global affairs conference explored how artificial intelligence is changing the world</media:title><media:description>Distinguished speakers from around the world discussed issues related to international relations, business, culture and climate change through the lens of artificial intelligence at the largest conference on global affairs in the Tampa Bay region.</media:description><media:thumbnail url="https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/images/2024/events-world-affairs-490-327.jpg" /><media:keywords>Panel discussion during the St. Pete Conference on World Affairs</media:keywords></media:content><guid>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/conference-world-affairs-2024.aspx</guid><categories>Community Partnerships,Events</categories><tags>Art,Business,Civics,Climate,Community,Economics,Global Affairs,Global Business,Government,Music,Sarah Sell</tags></item><item><title>Vocal music arrives on the USF St. Petersburg campus</title><link>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2023/vocal-music-arrives-on-the-usf-st-petersburg-campus.aspx</link><description>As part of its ongoing expansion of arts programming across the bay, the USF College of The Arts is offering a choral class as part of its Community Music Project in St. Petersburg this semester.</description><author>USF St. Petersburg campus</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 </pubDate><media:content url="https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/images/2023/university-singers-smaller.jpg" type="image/jpg"><media:title>Vocal music arrives on the USF St. Petersburg campus</media:title><media:description>As part of its ongoing expansion of arts programming across the bay, the USF College of The Arts is offering a choral class as part of its Community Music Project in St. Petersburg this semester.</media:description><media:thumbnail url="https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/images/2023/university-singers-smaller.jpg" /><media:keywords>University of South Florida: A Preeminent Research University</media:keywords></media:content><guid>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2023/vocal-music-arrives-on-the-usf-st-petersburg-campus.aspx</guid><categories>Campus News</categories><tags>Matthew Cimitile,Music</tags></item><item><title>Professor Brings His Passion for Conducting to the Classroom</title><link>https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2019/professor-brings-his-passion-for-conducting-to-the-classroom.aspx</link><description>As his resume suggests, Martin Seggelke is a committed conductor, no matter the composition, but his speciality is with classical works.</description><author>Rocky D. 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