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Drilling forum in Gulfport draws large crowd listen
11/06/09 Matthew Cimitile & Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: oil drilling, Rick Kriseman, USF, Gulfport
In Gulfport last night, the public piled into a town hall meeting on drilling for fossil fuels off the coast of Florida. It was billed as a meeting about one of the most important decisions impacting Florida’s future. Scientists, politicians and advocates gave arguments for and against a controversial proposal that would open up Florida’s Gulf coastline to gas and oil exploration as close as three to five miles from shore. Florida House Representative Rick Kriseman, a Democrat from St. Peters...
2 commentsDraper Laboratory opens at USF Tampa listen
10/26/09 Concetta DeLucoWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: research, USF, Draper Laboratories, weapons
The University of South Florida, Tampa is one new home of Draper Laboratory. With some of Hillsborough County’s elite in attendance, a red ribbon ceremony was held this afternoon to welcome Draper to their new location on the USF Campus.
Draper Laboratory was welcomed by USF President Judy Genshaft today at its ceremonial opening. At its new location, Draper will be conducting bio-medical research that Genshaft described as a perfect fit for the university.
Among the many Hillsboroug...
Be the first to commentHigh Speed Rail Panel At USF Green Expo Friday listen
10/09/09 Arielle StevensonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: high speed rail, USF, green expo
The University of South Florida hosted the second annual Going Green Tampa Bay Expo Friday in Tampa. Hundreds descended upon USF’s Marshall Center to learn more about sustainable technologies.
One of the many workshops presented was on hot button issue High Speed Rail. Anasi Hedad is an engineer with the Florida Department of Transportation. He has been working on producing a working high speed rail system in Florida for over thirty years.
The state’s application for 8 billion dollar...
Be the first to commentPew Forum on climate, energy and national security listen
09/01/09 Mark AndersonWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Energy, USF, environment
The nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts were formed by the heirs of the Sun Oil Company in 1948. The goal of the Pew Trusts is to improve public policy, inform the public, and stimulate civic life through analytic research. The trusts formed the Pew Research Council in 2004 and this group sponsored a town hall type forum, at the USF campus yesterday to discuss the intersection of 3 issues, National Security, Energy Policy, and Climate Change. The forum had 200 people in attendance.
The fo...
Be the first to commentUSF Health to train doctors in computer assisted surgery listen
08/10/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, USF Health
The University of South Florida College of Medicine soon will begin training doctors from across the southeast in robotic-assisted surgery. The new USF Health da Vinci Center for Computer Assisted Surgery will train up to 600 doctors per year to use robots to perform minimally-invasive surgery.
Two weeks ago, Cheryl Jordan had a minimally-invasive hysterectomy using a surgical system known as the da Vinci Si. Jordan is a doctor from...
Be the first to commentWorld renowned architect to design new USF campus listen
06/16/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: USF, Santiago Calatrava, Lakeland
USF officials announced today that renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has been selected to design the first building on the new Lakeland campus of USF Polytechnic.
The announcement was made this morning by Marshall Goodman, VP/CEO for USF Polytechnic. He was effusive in his praise for the award-winning architect.
David Robinson is the CEO of DSM, and was part of the selection committee. He said the new campus building will transform the region.
Calatrava was conferenced ...
Be the first to commentWater managers from around the world at USF listen
06/01/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Water, USF, Patel Center
This morning at the University of South Florida, 20 water managers from around the world exchanged ideas about that essential resource with people from the Tampa Bay area. The internationals are students from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands.
USF’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions hosted the students, who are in Florida to learn about “Sustainable Water Resources Management ...
1 commentsProfessionals seek career resources at USF Expo listen
03/17/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Today, the University of South Florida hosted a professional career resources expo providing tips to people seeking employment.
Florida’s unemployment rates are at a 15-year high of 8.6 percent; and many of the people looking for work are professionals.
Tuesday’s expo was organized by Tampa Bay WorkForce Alliance, which has offices in Tampa, Brandon and Plant City. Their communications consultant, Erin Glover, says the event isn’t a typical job fair wh...
1 commentsLakshman Yapa on an end to poverty listen
03/06/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
A Penn State geography professor told people at the University of South Florida this afternoon that poverty cannot be eradicated through economic development projects.
As part of USF’s Geography Colloquium Series, Lakshman Yapa told 30 students, professors, and members of the public that because economic development created poverty, poverty cannot be solved by economic development.
Some elements of a different discourse on poverty, Yapa says, involve quality-of-life issues rather than ...
Be the first to commentWhat is Obama's stance on genocide in Darfur? listen
02/25/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: genocide, Darfur, Barack Obama, USF
How will the Obama administration deal with and prevent genocide? Edward Kissi, an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida, says that in many of his campaign speeches, Obama referenced genocide in order to condemn and draw attention to the mass killings in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Kissi suggests that one reason was to stress his “change” campaign theme by contrasting the failure to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda with restoring Amer...
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