Campus
Inaugurates Tomorrow’s Leaders Symposium, deadline
approaches
Tuesday, April 20, USF St. Petersburg will stage its
inaugural Tomorrow’s Leaders Symposium
in Davis Hall Lobby. The event, which is slated to become
an annual one, will showcase the innovative research and
creative work that undergraduate students have produced
during the past academic year under the tutelage and support
of the our faculty.
Deadline for submission of student proposals is Thursday,
April 1. Submissions may be given to James McHale, PhD (DAV-258)
or Ray Arsenault, PhD (SNL-100).
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I am USF St. Petersburg: Mark Durand
V.
Mark Durand, USF St. Petersburg’s first Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, is an international authority
in the area of developmental disabilities in children. His
noted areas of research focus on children with severe
behavior problems, such as aggression, self-injury and sleep
disorders, have resulted in the development of unique treatments
that are used internationally.
He has developed an assessment tool to measure and evaluate
severe behavior problems that is used internationally and
has been translated into more than 15 languages.
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Academic Affairs announces web contest winners
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| The Journalism and Media Studies site
- designed by Edgar Huang, PhD. |
Gary Olson, PhD, Interim AVP Academic Affars, citing the
hard work of all participants announced the winners
of the divisional web site contest in a Monday meeting.
Those awarded most outstanding site were:
Faculty - Scott Waring, PhD, College of Education
http://www.stpt.usf.edu/waring/
Department - Journalism and Media Studies
http://www.stpt.usf.edu/journalism/
College - Arts and Sciences
http://www.stpt.usf.edu/coas/
Category prizes included a cash award for most outstanding
faculty, department and college web sites.
Contest
judges included Graphic Design student Nichele
Nutt, Academic Affairs Coordinator Jennifer Baker, Webmaster
John Husfield and Educational Technology Professor Todd
Taylor, PhD, of UNC.
Noting that Arts and Sciences won the most outstanding college
award in a "very close decision", Olson referred
to the judges comments that "this site (CAS) presented
a user interface that incorporated a pleasing design which
was both easy to navigate
and quick to load into the browser".
Final Friday Features Twilight Jazz by the Bay This month, chill out on Harborside Lawn with colleagues
and community members for Final Friday, March 26 at 5 pm.
This month's Final Friday features a faculty quartet
from the USF School of Music.
This month's Final Friday is hosted by Regional Chancellor
Karen A. White, DMA, and Associate Vice President
for Finance Abdul Nasser. This month's event is free
and open to the public. For more information, please call
727-553-4455.
Special for USF St. Petersburg Faculty
and Staff
USF President's Trio at the Palladium Offers USFSP Special
Ticket Rate
USF faculty, staff and students will receive a special offer
of two tickets for the price of one when t he USF President's
Trio appears at the Palladium Theater, Encore Chamber Music
Series, Thursday, March 18.
A reception begins at 6:30 pm with the performance at 7:30.
Simply present a valid university ID to claim the special
offer. Ticket prices are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors
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USF St. Petersburg Cares
Beach Cleanup
Part of the National Great American Cleanup, Saturday March
20, our campus will be cleaning the Tierra Verde Beach from
9 to 11am. Families invited! Contact Barry McDowell, mcdowell@stpt.usf.edu
if interested.
Food Drive Benefits Free Clinic
Food and toiletries donation to benefit the
St. Petersburg Free Clinic will be accepted at Student Affairs
or on Wednesday, March 17, 10am - 4pm Davis Hall, harborside
of lobby. Contact Barry McDowell, mcdowell@stpt.usf.edu
Faculty and Staff Annual Campaign Supports
USF St. Petersburg Funds
Support
areas that offer our campus and community the opportunity
to share in broad and varied intellectual experiences. Faculty
and Staff Scholarships, the Library and University Lectureships
are just some of the areas that help to provide those experiences.
Or, you can designate your gift to an area of your own special
interest, please search other giving priorities and funds
listed at the campaign website: https://giving.usf.edu/asp/facultystaff_area.asp?a=st%20
Bulls
Pep Rally to Take Over BayWalk
Join alumni, faculty, staff and students Wednesday, April
7 for USF St. Petersburg's first pep rally at BayWalk.
Football Coach Jim Leavitt, the Herd of Thunder Marching
Band and cheerleaders will be on hand to fire up fans
for the Green & Gold Game at Raymond James Stadium
that weekend. The pep rally starts at 12:30 pm at BayWalk.
This event is sponsored by USF Athletics, USF St. Petersburg,
The Sembler Corporation and The St. Petersburg Times.
Faculty/Staff Upcoming Events
| Wednesday, March 17 |
Food/Toiletries Drive
(Benefits the St. Petersburg Free Clinic) 10am
- 4pm Davis Hall, harborside of Lobby
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| Monday, March 22 |
Walt Harrington, on race and racial
issues in
news coverage.
Poynter Auditorium 7pm >> Read
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| Friday, March 26 |
Final Friday by the Bay
Sponsored by RC Karen White and AVP Abdul Nasser
School of Music Faculty Quartet |
| Friday, April 2 - Friday, April
30 |
Exhibit commemorating National Sexual
Violence Awareness Month - produced by Florida Craftsman,
Inc. and Family Service Centers, Inc. Regular Library
hours Nelson Poynter Library |
| Friday, April 2 |
Faculty/Staff Awards Luncheon
Noon, Campus Activities Center
RSVP: 3-4490 by Monday
March 29 to recieve a free luncheon ticket |
| Saturday, April 3 |
SAPL Book Fair
Produced by the Society for the Advancement of
Poynter Library 9:00am - Noon Davis Hall, Room 130 |
| Saturday, April 3 |
MarineQuest X
10am - 4pm
Florida Marine Research Institute
100 8 Avenue SE (next to USF's Knight Oceanographic Research
Center) |
| Wednesday, April 7 |
Pep Rally to Take Over BayWalk
Rally starts at 12:30 pm at BayWalk |
| Tuesday, April 20 |
Tomorrow’s Leaders Symposium
11am - 1pm
Davis Hall, Room 130 |
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| For more information on these
and other events, please call Holly Kickliter at 553-4455
or Sudsy Tschiderer at 553-4842 |
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