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USF study finds widespread rule-breaking in whale shark tourism hotspot

One of the worlds busiest whale-shark destinations is struggling to manage a boom in ecotourism. A new USF study finds the worlds biggest fish may be paying the price.

December 10, 2025Faculty & Staff

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USF engineering research team tackles Americas hidden sanitation crisis with breakthrough wastewater technology

Daniel Yeh and the Honu Hub team are working on delivering a certified, industry-ready product with support from a $5 million NSF award.

December 2, 2025Faculty & Staff

Betty Cappa, President of the French-American Business Council of West Florida, led the panel featuring French Consul General in Miami Rapha禱l Trapp (center) and 15th Street Farm founder Emmanuel Roux.

USF French Business Forum explores food as medicine from a multitude of perspectives

At the recent Second Annual USF French Business Forum, experts looked both inward and outward into our relationship with food. Exploring how our individual health and well-being depend on the food we eat, the way we grow it, and how its distributed in the community.

November 26, 2025Events, Global Networks

Jaiden Brick, Hannah Kirschenmann, Jade Fei, and Krystal Walford working on their proposal for the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program competition, a national competition allowing groups of interdisciplinary students to combine their areas of expertise. (Photo by Corey Lepak)

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, 2025Students

酴圖弝け: A Preeminent Research University

New study suggests accounting, not aliens, explains Perus mysterious Band of Holes

New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Perus puzzling Band of Holes once featured in Ancient Aliens was part of a sophisticated Indigenous network for storing and recording goods.

November 18, 2025Faculty & Staff

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New study suggests accounting, not aliens, explains Perus mysterious Band of Holes

New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Perus puzzling Band of Holes once featured in Ancient Aliens was part of a sophisticated Indigenous network for storing and recording goods.

November 18, 2025Faculty & Staff

酴圖弝け: A Preeminent Research University

AI and citizen science reveal potential first detection of invasive malaria mosquito in Madagascar

Researchers from the 酴圖弝け have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi an invasive and deadly malaria-carrying mosquito ever detected in Madagascar.

October 28, 2025Faculty & Staff

Jerome Galea standing with his colleagues in front of a brightly painted green and red wooden building.

Jerome Galea examines integration of traditional medicine in Perus public health system

Galea and his colleagues learned how the public health system responded to high maternal mortality rates in the Peruvian jungle.

October 15, 2025Faculty & Staff

silver fish in ocean with mountains and sunset in background

How ancient plankton point to the resilience of ocean ecosystems

The researchers used a cutting-edge approach to predict future ocean conditions by examining the distant past through analyses of microscopic fossils.

October 2, 2025Faculty & Staff

Jackson Anderson and Facundo Pereyra-Kluser collecting a water sample from a constructed wetland. (Photo by Nancy Romero-Daza)

When anthropology meets engineering: A fresh solution to wastewater

Nancy Romero-Daza and David Himmelgreen completed an interdisciplinary project that trains anthropology and engineering students in anthropological and environmental engineering methods in Costa Rica.

September 29, 2025Faculty & Staff, Students

Dr. Norma Alcantar's scientific curiosity, combined with a family secret involving cactuses, would eventually earn her a spot in the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.

September 29, 2025Faculty & Staff

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USF celebrates Fulbright scholars and visiting international researchers

The 酴圖弝け honored its expanding contingent of Fulbright scholars and welcomed visiting international researchers in a celebration of the iconic international exchange program thats made a global impact for generations.

September 25, 2025Faculty & Staff, Scholars, Students

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