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NEW CYCLONE SEVERITY SCALE AIMS TO BETTER INFORM THE PUBLIC
For decades, meteorologists and governments have warned communities in coastal areas of an imminent tropical cyclone using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale categorizes a tropical cyclone based on its maximum wind speed, and is used in defining evacuation strategies and humanitarian response.
April 16, 2021Supporting
REFUGEE WOMEN: RESEARCH IN TIMES OF CRISIS
A few years ago, in Portugal, a team comprised of myself and colleagues from Lisbon University Institute initiated an action research project entitled "Trajectories of Refugee: Gender, Intersectionality and Public Policies in Portugal鈥�, to assess the experiences of refugee women in the aftermath of the so-called refugee crisis, so our research team enthusiastically got on board with trying to fill that gap.
April 16, 2021Supporting
ST. PETE CAMPUS ENGLISH PROFESSOR PUBLISHES BOOK ON SCHOLARLY LIFE OF THE CLASSROOM
Thomas Hallock, Professor of English at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料 St. Petersburg campus, recently published his book titled "Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzl谩n to Amherst".
April 16, 2021Accomplishments
THE STATUS OF AIR QUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
About a year ago, in March 2020, companies and organizations around the world shut down or significantly limited production of goods and services as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures that followed. In doing this, fewer cars were on the road and high-emission operations decreased.
April 16, 2021Supporting
TWO DECADES OF MATHEMATICAL RESEARCH IN ALGEBRAS CULMINATES IN RESEARCH PAPER
Hemant Pendharkar, Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料, recently co-authored a research article with Dr. Don Hadwin, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of New Hampshire, entitled "Central Sequences in Subhomogeneous Unital C* Algebras", published by Cambridge University Press.
April 16, 2021Accomplishments
UNDERGRADUATE HUMANITIES RESEARCH CONFERENCE GOES DIGITAL FOR 2021
At the end of January 2021, 52 黑料网吃瓜爆料 (USF) undergraduate students from 13 different majors, ranging from religious studies to biomedical sciences, gathered online to present their original research projects on a huge variety of humanities topics.
April 16, 2021Community Engagement
黑料网吃瓜爆料ENGLISH PROFESSOR AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS WINDHAM CAMPBELL PRIZE
Assistant Professor Natalie Scenters-Zapico was recently awarded the prestigious Windham Campbell Literature Prize at Yale University. The prize recognizes her two collections of poetry,The Verging Cities(2016) andLima :: Limon(2019). It also comes with an unrestricted grant of $165,000.
April 16, 2021Accomplishments
ALCOHOL USE AND DEATH INCREASE DURING THE PANDEMIC
Dr. Lindsey Rodriguez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, was recently quoted in an NBC News article about the pandemic and the relation to increase in alcohol related deaths among women.
December 9, 2020Accomplishments, Research
ANALYZING PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE AMONG SARASOTA RESIDENTS AFTER HURRICANE IRMA
Dr. Feng Hao, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料 (USF), recently worked with two Sarasota-Manatee campus undergraduate students, Daniel Hinkle and Ron Hans, and a colleague from Nankai University in China, Yan Wang, to study the public perception of climate change after Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in September 2017.
December 9, 2020Supporting
ATOMICALLY THIN VAN DER WAALS MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS COULD REVOLUTIONIZE QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE
Current mobile phones, computers, and electronic appliances operate based on field-effect transistors (FETs) that use an electric field to switch on/off a charge current of electrons in a nonmagnetic semiconductor, encoding information in the 1/0 digital state.
December 9, 2020Research
BUILDING RESEARCH COMMUNITIES IN THE TIME OF COVID-19: MOBILIZING FOR RESEARCH
In March 2020 the global health crisis caused by COVID-19 changed our lives, including the way we approach research, teaching and community engagement. Having worked on health and migration issues for years, Beatriz Padilla, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料, was desperate to jump in.
December 9, 2020Research
鈥淐HOOSING MYSELF鈥�: SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION CURRICULUM AVAILABLE FOR YOUNG WOMEN IN FOSTER CARE
Dr. Jill McCracken, Professor of English and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料, is the founder of the Adolescent Sexual Health Education and Research (ASHER) Program and has launched 鈥淐hoosing Myself,鈥� a sexual health education program for females currently or previously in foster care.
December 9, 2020Community Engagement