USF Tampa and St. Petersburg are now rated as yellow-light institutions, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s speech code rating.   Codes of conduct are put in place by colleges and universities across America to keep everything, and everyone, under control. While rules are always needed to help maintain a functional society, there are

The Student Government Association (SGA) has wasted no time in preparing future activities and events for USF St. Pete students in the 2015­2016 academic year. Student Body President Jozef Gherman, senior, and Vice President Juan Salazar, junior, have only served for 3 months, but have passed 10 bills and two grants, enacted three executive orders,

Chancellor fills four seats, begins construction on the Kate Tiedemann College of Business and searches for a location for a new residence hall.   The regional chancellor of USF St. Petersburg has a vision. Sophia Wisniewska, 63, has been implementing goals from the Vision 20/20 Strategic Plan, a five­ year project focused on student success, sustainable funding,

Once a year, USF St. Petersburg anthropology professor Micah Boyer ventures out to Benin West Africa to research the disease Buruli ulcer. Boyer works for Optimus Foundation Stop Buruli research consortium on a social science team with Dr. Mark Nichter, who was Boyer’s Ph.D. adviser at the University of Arizona. Buruli ulcer is the third

The future of TRiO Support Services, a USF St. Petersburg organization that offers academic and personal support to first generation and low-income students, is uncertain. The program is undergoing administrative processes to determine whether it will continue to stay on campus as is or as a renovated program available to more students. The TRiO SSS

The 12th annual Research Symposium was held at the University Student Center ballroom on April 15 to showcase this year’s research projects and creative work from USF St. Petersburg students. The symposium gathers undergraduate students from all different majors, including biology, mass communications, criminology, psychology and business. A total of 158 students exhibited 138 projects,

The USF St. Petersburg Coquina Pool is now on track to open June 1, just in time for the summer. Pool-staff hiring and the final touches to construction will be completed within the next month, according to Zachary Oppenheim, assistant director of Student Life and Engagement. “The anticipated date for students to begin swimming is

How would you feel if you had to eat your lunch in the restroom stall? What if someone told you to go to the restroom to prepare your dinner? Currently, this is how nursing babies who come to USF St. Petersburg eat their meals. But plans are in the works to set aside a specific

Ten weeks after losing her daughter to cancer, cookbook writer Sherry Gore found her fresh start at USF St. Petersburg’s 2015 Food Conference. Experts from the culinary world were featured at the conference, including the celebrated Chef Don Pintabona, co-owner of Locale Market at Sundial. Gore spoke on how to successfully make your own cookbook.

The Kate Tiedemann College of Business is encouraging more students to enroll in the university’s accountancy program. Faculty members such as accountancy assistant professor Debra Sinclair said that there is a workforce shortage of accounting graduates in Florida. “One of the main reasons is that not many accounting graduates find and get jobs,” she said.