Sunday, July 3, 2022
Even though they attended the same high school, Gov.-elect Evelyn Deoliveira and Lt. Gov.-elect Madison Sosa didn’t get to know each other until an ambassador retreat last fall. A few months later, they entered the gubernatorial race together for the Sarasota-Manatee campus. While they had no opponents, Deoliveira and Sosa […]
As they prepare to begin their new role leading the St. Pete campus, Gov.-elect Sean Schrader and Lt. Gov.-elect Joshua Rampertab seek to pursue initiatives that will make their campus stand out post-consolidation. With Schrader’s background in Student Government (SG) as a senator and Rampertab’s experience organizing events as president […]
This story is part of a continuing series that features women leaders at USF during Women’s History Month. During Diane Price-Herndl’s childhood, her hometown of St. Jo, Texas was still racially segregated with many being unable to pursue higher education. Refusing to let her be tethered down by the town’s […]
Motivated to spread awareness about environmental preservation in Florida state parks, senior mass communications major and filmmaker Alexis Yahre knew she wanted to create a film that would encourage the public to interact with Florida wildlife. Having grown up in Florida, Yahre said she has fond memories of visiting various […]
This story is part of a continuing series that features women leaders at USF during Women’s History Month. Motivated to explain unknowns and find the authors whose works aren’t often shared, professor of social foundations Deirdre Cobb-Roberts dedicates her research to exemplifying voices of those who face the challenges of […]
Prior to their ascension as the first Black gubernatorial administration of the Tampa campus, seniors Alexis Roberson and Kiara Brooks established their vision to “FIGHT” for diversity and inclusion throughout the university long before taking office. Following the 2020 murder of George Floyd, Roberson and Brooks collaborated in meetings between […]
This story is part of a continuing series that features women leaders at USF during Women’s History Month. Director of undergraduate programs for the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications Kelli Burns believes the shift from high school to college can be daunting and swallow the confidence of students […]
This story is part of a continuing series that features women leaders at USF during Women’s History Month. Perfect exam scores as well as chess and bible reading competitions came easy to Ruthmae Sears when she was young, contributing to her future in academia. Sears grew up in Nassau, Bahamas, […]
This story is part of a continuing series that features Black leaders at USF during Black Heritage Month. From a young age, Goziem Nwafor devotedly watched the show “Static Shock,” which starred a Black superhero fighting crime. Being one of the few Black students in his elementary classes, the image […]
This story is part of a continuing series that features Black leaders at USF during Black Heritage Month. In a high school soccer game brawl, junior mechanical engineering major Langston Richardson took a hard fall and tore his right shoulder’s labrum and rotator cuff in an attempt to catch himself […]
In this episode of the USF Oracle Sports Podcast, Oracle correspondents Leo Santos and Alberto Camargo take charge of the episode and discuss their thoughts on the men’s and women’s soccer teams at about the midway point of the season.