Electric-car charging stations, a LEED gold rated building and another expected in the fall, and the Student Green Energy Fund have shined an LED-lit path to a sustainable future for USFSP. However, the phrases “green policies,” “sustainable practices,” “earth-friendly products” and “energy-efficient systems” blur distinct practices and philosophies into the same vague environmental movement. Endless [...]

After almost two months of hard work, the Entrepreneurship Club won first place at the 2012 Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization Startup Simulation Challenge. The team that participated and won was comprised of students Michael Anadiotis, Chris Carpenter, Brown Charite, Lazar Anderson, and Mark Lombardi-Nelson. The club, which is focused on learning in entrepreneurship, helps students to [...]

The crowd assembled before the stage with their beer and café mochas as English literature professor Louis Simon welcomed everyone to the Sigma Tau Delta Open Mic & Book Drive. He cleverly arranged a stack of books from an adjacent table and brought them with him to the stage to read. One was “Surfing on [...]

From posters on polymerization research to a series of portraits, the Ninth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium showcased research and creative work from USF St. Petersburg Students in Davis Hall on April 19. The symposium yielded undergraduate students from all different majors, from biochemistry and pre-med to mass communications and English. Almost 80 undergraduate students participated, [...]

USF St. Petersburg sophomore Solange Gorleku won the Miss People’s Choice Award during the Mr. and Miss USF Pageant at USF Tampa on April 10. Gorleku wanted to participate in the pageant “mostly because I wanted to prove, or remind everyone, that we are all the USF system,” she said. “I wanted to represent USF [...]

Within the vast realms of music, few artists are able to formulate an exceptional sound. Even fewer can be credited with doing so more than once. But ask fans of St. Petersburg-based Oceana to describe them and the diversity of responses will show how fruitful their history of continuous musical reinvention has been. In 2010, [...]

Nic Weathersbee decided he didn’t just want to make a product for profit anymore. “I wanted what I do for a living to actually help move humanity in what I believe to be the right direction,” he said. That direction was gardening. Weathersbee’s vision of harvesting enough of one’s own food to eat, and teaching [...]