Recent University Beat episodes
Political Cartoon Exhibit (August 21, 2012)
Since he was 12 years old, USF College of Public Health Dean Emeritus Charles Mahan has collected political cartoons. Now, a small portion of the 8,000 pieces he’s assembled are on display at the Tampa Museum of Art. University Beat on WUSF TV...
Political cartoons were the talk show hosts and websites of yesterday. Now, a USF faculty member has amassed quite a collection of cartoons that, with the help of the USF Library, is being displayed at the Tampa Museum of Art. This week’s...
Advanced Visualization Center / Scholarship Students (August 14, 2012)
From Mayan monuments and dinosaur fossils to jellyfish
x-rays and human CT scans, the Advanced Visualization Center is changing how USF students and faculty see things. University Beat on WUSF TV takes you inside the Center, where a huge 3-...
Demelza Hays is USF’s Outstanding Graduate of the summer semester and a recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholar research grant as an undergraduate student. Samantha Stratton is one of 13 students from around the state chosen as a Florida...
Advanced Visualization Center (August 7, 2012)
From Mayan monuments and dinosaur fossils to jellyfish x-rays and human CT scans, the Advanced Visualization Center is changing how USF students and faculty see things. University Beat on WUSF TV takes you inside the Center, where a huge 3-D...
Put together 16 high-resolution stereoscopic 3-D monitors and you get a display two to three times better than any I-MAX movie theater screen. With a device like that, you can look at objects smaller than a human hair or examine minute details of...
USF Pre-College Recap / PR Competition (July 31, 2012)
High school students took over USF this summer as part of the university’s first ever Pre-College initiative. University Beat on WUSF TV shows you how faculty and staff across a diverse range of subjects showed these young people what college...
Students in a USF Public Relations class took part in a national competition to design a marketing campaign for America’s Natural Gas Alliance, and we’re not blowing hot air when we tell you they finished in second place. On this week’s...
USF Pre-College Recap (July 24, 2012)
High school students took over USF this summer as part of the university’s first ever Pre-College initiative. University Beat on WUSF TV shows you how faculty and staff across a diverse range of subjects showed these young people what college...
Almost 200 high school students from around Florida got a taste of what college life is like during USF’s recent Pre-College Program. This week’s University Beat on WUSF 89.7 takes a look back at USF’s first ever comprehensive college prep...
Speed Dating Record (rebroadcast) / Sensory Marketing (July 17, 2012)
Take a few hundred USF students, add a group of enterprising reality TV stars, and you’ve got a new Guinness world record! University Beat on WUSF TV shows you how the students recently set the record in a new category: largest speed dating event...
University Beat wraps up a two-part look at the work some USF professors are doing on how marketers sell us the products we use and consume.
Groucho Marx once said, “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?” One USF researcher...
