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More Than 100 Students Attend Honors Future MD Career Fair

杏吧性世界 Honors students connected with Tampa Bay region physicians, health-focused student organizations and alumni at a networking and panel event designed to offer real-world medical career guidance.

November 25, 2025Events

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USF Students Compete to Launch Experiments Aboard the International Space Station

More than 3,700 students across North America competed to design experiments bound for the International Space Station through the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). This year, USF students joined the competition for the first time, rising to the challenge and uniting to bring their innovation into orbit.

November 24, 2025Accolades

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USF鈥檚 Student-Led Florida MedConnect Expands Research Access for Aspiring Health Care Professionals

USF Honors students Shivanshu Kumar and Elaine Pan founded Florida MedConnect to help students interested in undergraduate research gain the skills necessary to access research opportunities, lab positions, and mentorship in faculty-led labs.

November 24, 2025Community

An Honors Healing Arts class at USF St. Petersburg is helping students understand the therapeutic methods of interacting with art for people with memory loss.

November 21, 2025Teaching and Learning

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USF Students Aim High as Fall National Scholarship Applications Hit Record Levels

The USF Office of National Scholars saw record attendance at its workshops and seminars this fall. In addition to nominating its first full cohort for the Churchill Scholarship, the ONS team mentored the largest number of Gilman Scholarship applicants ever for a fall cycle, and the students aren鈥檛 slowing down anytime soon.

November 18, 2025Community

Guitele Rahill and Manisha Joshi at India Festival Tampa Bay

Social Work Interdisciplinary Research Lab Spreads Awareness About Intimate Partner Violence at the 2025 India Festival Tampa Bay

SWIRL student scholars and volunteers connected festival-goers with resources and strategies to recognize and prevent intimate partner violence.

November 17, 2025Community

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USF Honors Course Teaches Leadership Skills Through Emotional Intelligence

Led by licensed mental health counselor and Honors affiliate faculty member Melanie Ryerson, the Judy Genshaft Honors College course Life, Love, and Leadership gives students the opportunity to learn about emotional intelligence and leadership from experienced professionals and community leaders.

November 14, 2025Teaching and Learning

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USF Honors Alum Jordan McGillis Awarded Novak Journalism Fellowship

Judy Genshaft Honors College alum Jordan McGillis has been awarded the 2025鈥26 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship to support in-depth research, reporting, and long-form journalism on issues facing the United States.

November 5, 2025Alumni and Friends

Sofia Mitsuyuki, Dr. Reginald Lucien, and Anzhelika Kurnikova in the Honors building with the podcast title and logo overlaid on the image.

Honors IT Team Builds Research Portal Connecting USF Students and Faculty

A small team of Judy Genshaft Honors College students has transformed how undergraduate research happens at USF with the launch of the USF Research Portal. What began as an Honors College project is now a university-wide platform connecting thousands of students and faculty to new opportunities.

November 4, 2025Community

Starting in fall 2026, approximately 20 undergraduate students from all majors can engage in a two-year academic experience that includes Gulf-themed coursework, experiential learning and the creation of a public-facing Gulf Impact Project.

November 3, 2025Community

USF student Shivanand Benimadhu explains his research project,

Corridor Partnership Expands Undergraduate Research and Advances Experiential Learning at USF

Through the continued Corridor Undergraduate Research Initiative, more than 200 students will gain hands-on, faculty-mentored research experience in disciplines ranging from engineering and artificial intelligence to public health, education, sustainability, and the arts.

October 29, 2025Community

Gary Mormino receiving hall of fame award

Florida Humanities Designates USF Professor Emeritus First Ever Inductee to Hall of Fame

The honor celebrates significant contributions to the humanities by USF Florida Studies program co-founder and Honors professor Gary R. Mormino Gary Mormino, who has written for the St. Petersburg Times, the Orlando Sentinel, the Miami Herald and the Tampa Tribune and whose book 鈥淟and of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida鈥 is considered a germinal study in state history.

October 29, 2025Accolades

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