About University Beat

University Beat is a radio and television program that focuses on research from the University of South Florida and how it benefits the Tampa Bay area, Florida, and the world around us.

Each week, reporter Mark Schreiner looks at the latest USF efforts in medicine, engineering, education, arts and sciences and explores other programs that reach out to both students and the community.

 

Broadcast Schedule

Radio - Monday and Thursday at 3:57 PM | Tuesday and Friday at 9:04 AM

Television
- Monday through Friday at 11:55 AM and 11:25 PM plus two various times | Saturday and Sunday at four various times

 

This Week on TV

USF Pres. Judy Genshaft at the launch of the public phase of USF Unstoppable

The University of South Florida is in the middle of its “Unstoppable” fund-raising campaign, with a goal of bringing in 600 million dollars. This week’s University Beat on WUSF-TV brings you highlights from the recent formal launch of the public phase of the campaign.

 

This Week on Radio

Displaced gravestone at the cemetery near 22nd & Hillsborough in Tampa.

Science and altruism meet when a group of USF researchers and their students use the latest technology to map out a pauper’s cemetery. This week’s University Beat shows you how this ‘archaeology without digging’ not only advances knowledge, but also restores the dignity of people long since forgotten.

 

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Unstoppable (November 1, 2009)
USF Pres. Judy Genshaft at the launch of the public phase of USF Unstoppable

The University of South Florida is in the middle of its “Unstoppable” fund-raising campaign, with a goal of bringing in 600 million dollars. This week’s University Beat on WUSF-TV brings you highlights from the recent formal launch of the public...

 
Alumni, donors & faculty mingle at the launch of the public phase of Unstoppable
Unstoppable

Almost three hundred and twenty million dollars and counting; that’s the progress of USF’s capital campaign, “Unstoppable.” This week’s University Beat on WUSF 89.7 FM drops in on the formal launch of the public phase of “Unstoppable” and talks...

 
Mile in Her Shoes / Creating Sustainable Communities (October 25, 2009)
USF students & Rocky the Bull begin the "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes"

While the image of male USF students walking around campus in high heels is pretty funny, the reason why a few hundred of them recently did so is decidedly serious. This week's University Beat on WUSF-TV takes you to "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,"...

 
USF St. Pete “Lead, Learn and Serve” students meet w/local community leaders

Students in USF Saint Petersburg’s Leadership program are teaming up with faculty and local community members on “Creating Sustainable Communities,” a project inspired by author and educator Margaret J. Wheatley. This week’s University Beat on...

 
Mile in Her Shoes (October 18, 2009)
USF students & Rocky the Bull begin the "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes"

While the image of male USF students walking around campus in high heels is pretty funny, the reason why a few hundred of them recently did so is decidedly serious. This week's University Beat on WUSF-TV takes you to "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,"...

 
USF students at the Marshall Student Center for "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes"

A few hundred male USF students learned what it's like to walk a mile in women's shoes - figuratively AND literally - at a sexual-assault awareness event. This week's University Beat on WUSF-FM brings you the high-heeled details of the first walk...

 
Festival of Reading / Hate Crimes Summit (October 11, 2009)
USF authors sign their work at 2008’s St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading.

Over fifty authors, including a number of Pulitzer Prize winners, will be coming to USF Saint Petersburg Saturday, October 24, for the Seventeenth Annual Saint Petersburg Times "Festival of Reading." This week's University Beat on WUSF TV takes a...

 
Panel at the USF Hate Crimes Summit

According to government figures, a hate crime is reported somewhere in the US every hour of everyday...and thousands more every year go unreported. This week's University Beat on WUSF 89.7 FM takes you to a recent USF summit where attendees didn'...

 
Festival of Reading (October 4, 2009)
USF authors sign their work at 2008’s St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading.

Over fifty authors, including a number of Pulitzer Prize winners, will be coming to USF Saint Petersburg Saturday, October 24, for the Seventeenth Annual Saint Petersburg Times "Festival of Reading." This week's University Beat on WUSF TV takes a...

 
Festival of Reading logo

This week's University Beat on WUSF 89.7 FM brings you a preview of the Saint Petersburg Times "Festival of Reading" and introduces you to a pair of USF faculty members who will be presenting their new books there.

 
Lego Robots / National Security, Energy & Climate (September 27, 2009)
A Lego Mindstorm NXT soccer-playing robot.

This week's University Beat on WUSF-TV takes you to the sidelines as a group of students in a USF College of Engineering research program put their custom-made Lego robots to the test in a high-tech game of soccer.

 
Courtesy Candace C. Mundy/Focus From The Heart, LLC

The interconnected concerns over climate change, energy policy and national security recently took center stage at the University of South Florida, as former U-S Senators Bob Graham and John Warner were joined by military and science experts at a...

 
 

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Mark Schreiner, Host, Producer

Mark Schreiner has been the producer and reporter for "University Beat" on WUSF 89.7 FM since 2001 and on WUSF TV since 2007. He has worked as an anchor, reporter and producer at radio stations in Tampa and his native Chicago...

 

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