Actress and comedian Julissa Calderon will recount her journey from starting as a pre-med major before switching to comedy and how she became a representation of the Latin community on Netflix at Thursday’s University Lecture Series (ULS). “I think it’s literally just talking about [representation] and just being proud of […]

Orientation for incoming students has been held online since summer 2020 due to the pandemic, but the 2022 spring orientation is set to be back in person to introduce new students to university life on campus. The spring orientation session will be held Jan. 7 from 9 a.m. to 4:45 […]

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor will speak to students about LGBTQ issues, her role in the community and COVID-19 in the Tampa Bay area at a town hall-style discussion moderated by the LGBTQ+ Health Alliance on Oct. 13. Kurt Rodriguez, president of the LGBTQ+ Health Alliance and USF student, said the […]

After more than a year since USF’s Black Student Union’s (BSU) made 10 demands to address the needs of the Black community across campuses, at least half of them will be completed this semester.  Some of the initiatives born from the demands, such as the increase of Black student enrollment, […]

Homecoming is less than a month away, and preparations are in full swing to welcome back students and alumni with a long week of events, competitions and games across all three campuses. Students and alumni will get to celebrate the homecoming festivities in person for the first time since fall […]

Back in front of a live audience, the University Lecture Series (ULS) will return to in-person lectures beginning October after more than a year of hosting speakers online. The first in-person ULS will take place Oct. 14 in commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The speaker, who hasn’t been announced yet, […]

This semester, in-person events were brought back for organizations to interact more with their members, but after more than a year of connecting with students online, some groups have had to modify the way they host activities. Since the start of the pandemic, student organizations were not allowed to have […]

With cities across the U.S. experiencing ventilator shortages over the past year as hospitalizations rose due to COVID-19, a group of USF alumni won $20,000 in a national competition for the creation of a low-cost ventilator prototype to address the growing issue.  Biomedical engineering alumni Abby Blocker, Carolyna Yamamoto Alves […]

USF Recreation and Wellness is opening a new three-tier challenge course at USF Riverfront Park for students and organizations to rise to the challenge. The $206,000 challenge course will be a three-tier ropes course that will include multiple obstacles and experiences, such as being suspended in the air in a […]