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$4.8M Mellon Foundation grant opens internship opportunities for USF humanities students

For the first time, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 鈥� the nation鈥檚 largest supporter of the arts and humanities 鈥� invited the 黑料爆料 to submit a proposal last spring for one of its humanities internship grants. The foundation awarded the college a five-year, $4.8 million grant that will support up to 900 students each year in otherwise unpaid internships. The beneficiaries will be undergraduate students majoring in humanities.

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Uncovering ocean tech

The Rising Tides Podcast鈥� covers ocean research from space to the seafloor, including the use of buoys, satellites, and submersibles to advance marine science. Credit: Jay Law.

Designed for ocean experts and general audiences alike, 鈥淭he Rising Tides Podcast鈥� invites oceanographers to discuss their ground-breaking research.

Transforming waste

person's gloved hands sifting through mulch

A new partnership between USF St. Petersburg and the City of St. Petersburg will bring an industrial-sized composter to campus to process food waste.

Findings will help inform a 25-year national study that will track young people鈥檚 digital media use and wellbeing into adulthood.

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USF to confer more than 7,700 degrees during commencement ceremonies May 8-11

05/05/25 — Graduates include a mother and son earning their degrees, a cancer survivor who never gave up on her educational goal and twin sisters who created thriving startups, winning awards along the way to fuel their entrepreneurial journeys.

Tammy and Bennett Moscato

05/02/25 — Mother and son Tammy and Bennett Moscato attended USF together. Now, they are both graduating this spring.

The Last of Us is loosely based on a genus of real fungi called Ophiocordyceps, which infects a few animal species, including ants and spiders, and hijacks their behavior. | Video by: Torie Doll

Could 'The Last of Us' really happen? USF mycology expert breaks down the fungus behind the fiction

05/01/25 — HBO鈥檚 The Last of Us might be a dystopian thrill ride, but how real is its core concept that a fungus could hijack the human brain? A USF microbiology professor explains what鈥檚 fact and what鈥檚 fiction.

2025 Innovation in Online Design and Teaching Award Highlights Transformative Faculty Approaches

04/30/25 — Associate professor of instruction in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Brian Turnbull, is a finalist for the Innovation in Online Design and Teaching Award, presented by USF Innovative Education and the Office of the Provost.

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Five of six Outstanding Young Alumni for 2025 call CAS 鈥榟ome鈥�

Each year the USF Alumni Association chooses grads from across the university to honor at the Outstanding Young Alumni Awards, most of whom come from the College of Arts and Sciences.

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From left to right: Stefania Alastre Arcusa, Veronica 鈥淩onnie鈥� Gajownik, Shelly Marc, Hiram J. R铆os Hern谩ndez and Bailee W. Olliff, MD

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