Researchers from USF and the Byrd Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute have developed a vaccine that reverses memory loss in Alzheimer's mice--a vaccine that's simply made out of white blood cells from "normal" mice. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Gary Arendash, Research Professor, USF’s Memory & Aging Research Laboratory / Byrd Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute
Phone: 813-974-1584 
Email: arendash@cas.usf.edu         

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USF's Florida Mental Health Institute is helping the group "Community Tampa Bay" with its "Anytown USA" summer program that teaches Bay area high school students inclusiveness and leadership skills--skills that they can hopefully use to reduce hate and discrimination in their own lives. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Jessica Estevez, Community Tampa Bay Director of Programs
Phone: 727-568-9333  
Email: jestevez@ctb.org

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In a study conducted by the USF College of Public Health, the DeSoto County Health Department and the DeSoto County School District, researchers found that a large number of county residents are still suffering the mental effects of Hurricane Charley in 2004--and there's a very close connection between parents' mental health problems and what kind of effect that has on their children. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Elizabeth Barnett, Associate Professor, USF Department of Epidemiology
Phone: 813-974-2235  
Email: ebarnett@hsc.usf.edu    

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There are 5 TUITION FREE spots available for incoming 5th through 9th grade students for the June 12th-16th session of the CSI Adventure camp. All that's required is a completed registration form and referral information.

For more information, please contact Troy Pumphrey by visiting www.csiadventure.com or calling 813-451-7113.

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USF is offering a six week intensive summer class in hurricane preparation and recovery that will give eight students the ability to both conduct research and assist evacuees in hurricane shelters. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Naomi Yavneh, Director, USF Office of Undergraduate Research
Phone: 813-974-9393 or 974-4241  
Email: yavneh@cas.usf.edu     

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USF will be the site for a series of week-long sessions of the "CSI Adventure Camp," which will provide high school and middle school students the chance to to learn more about criminal investigations and forensic science. Featured speakers during the camp include former police detectives from Washington D.C. and the Hillsbrough County Sheriff's Department, as well as researchers from USF and the Moffitt Cancer Center . Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Troy Pumphrey
Phone: 813-451-7113 
Website: www.csiadventure.com

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The USF Collaborative for Children, Families and Communities took its Ninth Annual "Research Day" right to the East Tampa neighborhood it targets with its work--work done by USF students so they can both learn something and serve the Bay area at the same time. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Judith Jetson, Director, USF Collaborative for Children, Families and Communities
Email: Jetson@usfcollab.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-7318  

Collaborative website: www.usfcollab.usf.edu

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Students in a number of classes at USF Saint Petersburg will soon be able to view their lectures whenever and wherever they want, as often as they want, thanks to their video iPOD. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
David Brodosi, Audio Visual Specialist, Instructional Media Services, USF St. Pete
Email: brodosi@nelson.usf.edu
Phone: 727-873-4126                        

or Mark Schreiner (email: marvfan@aol.com) University Beat Producer

Covering forty years of changing governments in Latin and South America was the task of a two day conference sponsored by USF's Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC). Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Jorge Nef, Director, Institute for the Study of Latin America & the Caribbean
Email: nef@iac.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-8140                        

Dr. Timothy Smith, Associate Director, ISLAC
Email: smith@iac.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-5528

ISLAC website: http://web.usf.edu/iac/islac/

or Mark Schreiner (email: marvfan@aol.com) University Beat Producer

The USF College of Public Health is one of twelve such colleges that have been chosen by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation-sponsored "Community-Campus Partnerships for Health" to take part in a project that will come up with strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. The project brings together organizations from both inside and outside USF. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Karen Liller, PhD, associate dean for academic affairs, USF College of Public Health
Email: kliller@hsc.usf.edu 
Phone: 813-974-6685                        

Hana Osman, PhD, assistant professor of public health, USF Department of Community & Family Health / project leader
Email: hosman@hsc.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-0989 

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
Web site: www.ccph.info

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University Beat wraps up its look at USF’s 50th Anniversary celebration by talking to Doctor Mark Greenberg, the Director of the Special Collections Department and The Florida Studies Center at the USF Library, and the author of the new commemorative coffee-table book, "The University of South Florida: The First 50 Years." Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Mark Greenberg, Ph.D., Director, Special Collections Department & The Florida Studies Center, USF Library
Email: mgreenbe@lib.usf.edu 
Phone: 813-974-4141                        

"The University of South Florida: The First 50 Years" Coffee Table Book:

Anniversary website

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As USF celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year, University Beat checks in with USF President, Doctor Judy Genshaft, in a two-part interview. In part two, we discuss some of the things being done at all four USF campuses to position the University for the next fifty years. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Anniversary Web site
Green & Gold Television Special
"The University of South Florida: The First 50 Years" Coffee Table Book

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The Florida Studies Program on the USF's Saint Petersburg campus is taking a closer look at "small town Florida" through a series of presentations about Sunshine State fiction and poetry, as well as research and trips to these small towns by graduate students who will publish their work later this year. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Prof. Ray Arsenault or Greta Scheid-Wells, USF St. Petersburg, Florida Studies Program
Phone: 727-873-4872
Website: www.stpt.usf.edu/coas/florida_studies/SpecialEvents.htm

Events: (free & open to the public) St. Petersburg Campus
Wednesday, April 19 Short Stories from Small-Town Florida 7:30 p.m. Davis Hall, Room 130
Wednesday, April 26 "2nd Annual Night of Florida Poetry" 7:30 p.m. Snell-Williams Courtyard

or Mark Schreiner (email: marvfan@aol.com) University Beat Producer

As USF celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year, University Beat checks in with USF President, Doctor Judy Genshaft, in a two-part interview. In part one, we discuss the economic impact USF has on the region, its strengths as a research institution, and some of the anniversary commemorations, including an upcoming tv special and coffee table book. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Anniversary Web site
Green & Gold Television Special
"The University of South Florida: The First 50 Years" Coffee Table Book

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Almost four-thousand elementary and high school students from around the bay area came out to USF's 33rd annual Engineering EXPO to see interactive exhibits from companies, governmental agencies, and USF Engineering student societies, with the hope that the students may choose engineering as a career path. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Paul McCright, Associate Professor, USF's Department of Industrial Engineering
Phone: 813-974-2709
Website: mccright@eng.usf.edu

Engineering Expo Web site: http://expo.eng.usf.edu

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USF's College of Public Health recently hosted one of a dozen town hall meetings nationwide to discuss worklace safety with employers, workers, labor and employer groups, public health officials, and elected representatives. Findings from the meetings will be used by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to set up their National Occupational Research Agenda. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): www.cdc.gov/niosh/nora/
Phone: 813-974-5203

USF Sunshine Education and Research Center: publichealth.usf.edu/erc/       

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USF's de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute's recent 19th Annual Research Conference brought together about 650 researchers, administrators, policy makers, advocates and family members to share the latest research and perspectives on children's mental health issues. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Department of Child and Family Studies at Florida Metal Health Institute
Phone: 813-974-4602
Website: http://cfs.fmhi.usf.edu

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Phone: 240-276-1980
Website: http://www.systemsofcare.sahmsa.gov

Federation of Familes for Children's Mental Health
Phone: 240-403-1901
Website: http://www.ffcmh.org

or Mark Schreiner (email: marvfan@aol.com) University Beat Producer

USF's College of Public Health recently hosted one of a dozen town hall meetings nationwide to discuss worklace safety with employers, workers, labor and employer groups, public health officials, and elected representatives. Findings from the meetings will be used by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to set up their National Occupational Research Agenda. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): www.cdc.gov/niosh/nora/
Phone: 813-974-5203

USF Sunshine Education and Research Center: publichealth.usf.edu/erc/       

or Mark Schreiner (email: marvfan@aol.com) University Beat Producer

USF, along with the FBI and Raymond James Financial, recently hosted the Fourth Annual Cyber Security Summit, where over 250 representatives of law enforcement, education institutes and private businesses came together to discuss the latest Internet crimes and the best ways to fight them. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Robert L. Anderson, Dean, College of Business Administration
Email: randerso@coba.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-3229

Cyber Security Website: www.cybersecurity06.usf.edu

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For about 25 years, the Gus A. Stavros Center for Free Enterprise & Economic Education on USF's Tampa campus has been teaching K-12 educators so they can pass along information about entrepreneurship, workforce skills and the global economy to their students--the next generation of entrants into the ever-changing business world. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Dick Puglisi, Director,
Gus A. Stavros Center for Free Enterprise & Economic Education
Email: puglisi@tempest.coedu.usf.edu
Stavros Center Phone: 813-974-2175
Stavros Center Website: http://Stavros.coedu.USF.edu

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USF served as the host for the "Emergency Preparedness for Persons with Disabilities" conference, and while participants picked up information about how the disabled can get ready for disasters, both natural and man-made, they also got a rather unexpected lesson. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Stephen Sundarrao, Associate Director,
USF's Rehabilitation Engineering & Technology Program
Email: sundarra@eng.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-5346


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USF's Department of Pediatrics is providing the manpower, Ronald McDonald Charities of Tampa Bay is providing the wheels. The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile is being brought to a number of Hillsborough County schools and shelters so USF doctors, residents, and medical students can provide medical and dental care to under served children. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Program, USF Department of Pediatrics
Email: lnelson@hsc.usf.edu
Phone: 813-259-8754


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The International Health Service Collaborative, a program conceived and run entirely by USF students in the Colleges of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, is aiding communities in developing nations by traveling on their own dime to provide medical care and improve their sanitation systems. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
International Health Service Collaborative:
Email: USFihsc@yahoo.com

or

Samuel Crane, IHSC Co-President
Email: scrane@hsc.usf.edu

For donations to IHSC, contact Laura Waddel, Associate Dir. of Annual Giving
Phone: 813-974-4812
Email: lwaddel@hsc.usf.edu

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While many people who suffer from chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, have found relief with the drug "Gleevac," others are finding their CML is either developing resistance to it or is actually too strong for the treatment. Researchers at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute are working on a pair of more potent compounds, and clinical trials are showing positive results. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Kapil Bhalla, Professor of Interdisciplinary Oncology / Scientific Director, Hematologic Malignancy Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Email: bhallakn@moffitt.usf.edu
Phone: 813-745-6861

Moffitt clinical trials: Cancer Answers 1-800-456-7121 (M-F 8:30 am-4:30 pm)
OR www.MoffittCancerCenter.org and click on the clinical trials link
OR New Patient Appointments at 1-888-860-2778.

or Mark Schreiner (email: marvfan@aol.com) University Beat Producer

One of the fastest growing fields in the financial world is "forensic accounting," and MBA students in USF Saint Petersburg's forensic accounting program recently met a real-life "white collar crime fighter" who targets some of the worst perpetrators of insurance fraud. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Rich Brody, Associate Professor of Forensic Accounting, USF St. Pete
Email: rbrody@stpt.usf.edu
Phone: 727-553-4895

Richie Taffet, President, First Advantage Investigative Services
Email: rtaffet@FADV.com
Phone: 888-898-0080, x 1034
Web site: www.fadv.com/Investigative/index.html

or Mark Schreiner (email: marvfan@aol.com) University Beat Producer

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center on the Tampa campus of USF is taking on the disparities in both the occurance and death rates from prostate cancer between African-American and Caucasian men. And Moffitt is reaching out to train future researchers at the historically black college, Florida A & M University. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Nagi Kumar, Director, Department of Nutrition, Moffitt Cancer Center / Associate Professor, USF's Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology
Email: kumar@moffitt.usf.edu
Phone: 813-903-6866

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The USF Department of Pediatrics has shown tremendous improvement when it comes to receiving research funding from the National Institutes of Health--jumping over 40 spots in NIH's rankings for 2004. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Robert Nelson, Chairman, USF Department of Pediatrics
Email: rnelson@hsc.usf.edu
Phone: 813-272-3799

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University Beat takes a look at USF'S online plant atlas, which provides governmental and environmental agencies, researchers and citizens with "green thumbs" access to the over 41-hundred species of plants around Florida. Listen Now!

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Shawn Landry, Interim Director, Florida Center for Community Design & Research, USF'S School of Architecture & Community Design
Email: landry@arch.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-4590

NT ATLAS WEBSITE:
NY PLANT ATLAS:
WATER ATLAS:
TAMPA BAY ESTUARY ATLAS: (NEW)
COMMUNITY ATLAS:  (UNDER DEVELOPMENT)

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