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Dr. Robin Murphy, the Director of the Institute for Safety Security Rescue Technologies on the Tampa campus of USF, recently brought her robots to Louisiana and Mississippi to assist in the search and rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina. But they weren't the ground ones she used at Ground Zero after 9/11, but UAV's--Urban Aerial Vehicles. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Professor Robin Murphy, PhD, Director, Institute for Safety Security Rescue Technologies
Email: murphy@cse.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-4756  

View videos and still pictures from the UAV's.

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

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center's 18th Annual FACTors (Fighting Against Breast Cancer Together) Breast Cancer Education Conference, "Spirits of Lasting Beauty & Courage," will be held this Saturday, September 24th from 9:00 am. to 4:00 pm at the Vincent A. Stabile Research Building on the USF Tampa campus. Listen Now.

University Beat speaks with the founder of FACTors, Dr. Charles Cox, and this year's keynote speaker, former Hillsborough County Commissioner and founder of the Joshua House, Dottie Berger MacKinnon, a breast cancer survivor.

Reservations Required for FACTors Breast Cancer Education Conference (9/24): Email: FACTors@moffitt.usf.edu
Phone: 813-745-4988   

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

In a follow up to last week's report on USF's new "Sports Medicine Institute," University Beat takes a look at one of the Institute's first projects, a "heat pill" that was tested on the USF football team during pre-season practice. Trainers use the pill to quickly check players' core temperatures and hopefully prevent heat stroke or other illnesses that could prove fatal. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Eric Coris, USF Assistant Professor of Family Medicine / Director, USF's Sports Medicine Institute
Email: ecoris@hsc.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-2445   

For more information about the USF Sports Medicine Institute, please call 813-974-2918 or the USF Physical Therapy Center at 813-974-8613.         

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

USF is helping out athletes of all ages with its new "Sports Medicine Institute," which will research different athletic injuries and health issues, as well as provide education to local coaches about recognizing, treating and preventing injuries. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Eric Coris, USF Assistant Professor of Family Medicine / Director, USF's Sports Medicine Institute
Email: ecoris@hsc.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-2445   

For more information about the USF Sports Medicine Institute, please call 813-974-2918 or the USF Physical Therapy Center at 813-974-8613.         

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

Media organizations around the world have picked up a study co-authored by USF researcher, Doctor Sandra Reynolds, who looked at obesity and the effects it has on the elderly, their life expectancy, and, more importantly, their health. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Sandra Reynolds, Associate Professor & Assistant Director Academic Affairs, School of Aging Studies
Email: sreynold@cas.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-9750

Abstract from The Gerontologist

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

USF professor-Moffitt researcher, Doctor Sophie Dessureault, has received a pair of grants to conduct trials on a vaccine that uses a person's own cancer cells to fight mantle cell lymphoma and melanoma. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Sophie Dessureault, M.D., Ph.D.
Surgical Oncologist, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute / Assistant Professor of Surgery, USF's College of Medicine
Email: dessursm@moffitt.usf.edu
Phone: 813-745-1965

For more information about the trials or other Moffitt trials: 813-979-3929

Lymphoma Research Foundation: 800-500-9976 or www.lymphoma.org

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

For the fifth straight year, the University of South Florida has served as one of the host schools for the American Society of Newspaper Editors' summer workshop,"The High School Journalism Institute," which brings together high school newspaper advisors to learn the finer points of the fourth estate. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Randy Miller, Associate Professor, USF School of Mass Communications
Email: rmiller@chuma.cas.usf.edu
Phone: 813-974-6791

American Society of Newspaper Editors website: www.asne.org

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

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center on USF's Tampa campus is participating in a multi-consortium clinical trial of a new therapy for "recurring glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)," a malignant form of brain cancer that kills victims within months. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Frank Vrionis, USF Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery / Member, H. Lee Moffitt Neuro-Oncology Program
Email: vrionif@moffitt.usf.edu
Phone: 813-979-3063

For more information about the trial or other Moffitt trials: 813-979-3929

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

For the past few years, a USF researcher, who also happens to be a USF alum, has been studying the concept of "co-parenting," the support (or sometimes lack of it) that parents provide one another when raising children. The work has paid off with a rarely awarded research grant, as well as the upcoming publication of a book on the subject. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. James McHale, Associate Professor, Psychology
Email: jmchale@stpt.usf.edu
Phone: 727-553-4963

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

USF geologists have teamed up with Ohio State University archaeologists to examine a region in Yemen to determine how and why a climate shift took place five thousand to ten thousand years ago changed it from an area with normal rainfall and corresponding agriculture to the arid, desert region it is today. Listen Now.

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center has received a one-year, 25-thousand dollar grant from the Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund to provide breast cancer outreach and education to Haitian women in the Bay Area. University Beat speaks to Claudine Thervil, a Haitian USF graduate student who was hired to serve as a community outreach worker. Listen Now.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Claudine Thervil, H. Lee Moffitt's Community Outreach Worker
for Haitian Population
Phone: 813-974-4777

Marlene Rivera, H. Lee Moffitt's Coordinator of Community
Education and Outreach
Phone: 813-903-4954

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

A new USF alumni group for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, GALA, is in the planning stages. In addition to bringing together alumni and working with other alumni groups, GALA would assist current USF students in the G-L-B-T community.

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Mark Hafen, Ph.D., Department of Geography (email: mhafen@cas.usf.edu)
Phone: 813-974-4777

Merrell Dickey, Director, Chapters and Societies, USF Alumni Association
(email: mdickey@admin.usf.edu)
Phone: 813-974-8842

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

If you would like more information on this subject, please contact:
Dr. Theresa Beckie, Associate Professor (email: tbeckie@hsc.usf.edu)
College of Nursing
813-974-9202

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