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USF students adapt to produce television news broadcasts from home
USF students enrolled in the Florida Focus broadcast news class hoped to spend this fall producing daily news segments in the university’s on-campus studio, but COVID-19 changed those plans. Instead, they’ve been reporting from makeshift mini studios in their homes as they prepare to enter the workforce.
November 6, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
Environmental testing in residence halls a key element of USF’s COVID-19 mitigation efforts
Every week, University of South Florida Housing & Residential Education (HRE) staff swab hundreds of high-touch areas across the university’s housing facilities. The effort is part of USF’s multi-faceted approach to monitoring and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
October 13, 2020COVID-19, University News
Keeping the performing arts performing during a pandemic
As theaters and performance halls remain shuttered due to COVID-19, a University of South Florida dance professor is exploring new ways to connect the public to the art of movement.
October 6, 2020University News
USF-developed technology named semi-finalist for XPRIZE in COVID-19 testing
A USF interdisciplinary team is working to develop an inexpensive and non-invasive “electronic nose” that can detect virus in an infected person.
September 28, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
USF researchers find death counts fail to capture full mortality effects of COVID-19
More than 200,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19. Some argue that statistic is inaccurate due to inconsistencies in how deaths are being reported. But researchers from the University of South Florida claim that even if those deaths have been correctly measured, the number doesn’t fully convey the true mortality effects of COVID-19.
September 23, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
USF supports COVID-19 research partnerships with new seed grants
The University of South Florida will provide seed funding to 14 new research projects designed to address the medical, technological and societal issues of COVID-19. This brings the total of institutional resources invested into pandemic research to more than $1 million.
September 2, 2020COVID-19, Research and Innovation
USF hosts Gov. DeSantis for a panel discussion about COVID-19’s impact on education
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis met with USF President Steve Currall and members of his leadership team for a panel discussion on the impact COVID-19 has had on the reopening of Florida schools.
September 1, 2020COVID-19, University News
Despite COVID-19, University of South Florida sustains strong enrollment and welcomes its highest-achieving freshman class
Prospective college students from across the United States and the world continue to take note of the University of South Florida's growing reputation as one of the nation's top public universities and one of Florida’s three Preeminent research universities. This fall, USF welcomes its most academically accomplished incoming freshman class with an average SAT score of 1312, placing USF in the 87th percentile, and a high school GPA of 4.18.
September 1, 2020COVID-19, University News