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Local leaders want Tampa to be in the business of biotech listen
02/06/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Moffitt Cancer Center, Bob Buckhorn, Rick Baker, USF, health care, biotech
As Florida’s unemployment rate lingers around ten percent, community and leaders are looking for new ways to bring in more jobs. Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn has his eye on biotechnical companies. At a business of biotech conference at Moffitt Cancer Center today, Buckhorn said they will create more meaningful employment in the area.
Buckhorn wants his city to be more than just a...
Be the first to commentElected official speaks out against Florida election law ahead of Senate hearing in Tampa listen
01/26/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Voting, voter's rights, voter suppression, kathy castor, Charlie Miranda, Tom Scott, USF, Dick Durbin
Several elected officials are concerned that Florida’s new voting law will make it harder for students and minorities to cast their votes. In preparation of a hearing to evaluate the law, U.S. member of Congress Kathy Castor spoke out against the law Thursday.
Last year, Governor Rick Scott signed a law he said would cut down on voter fraud. Among other things, it reduces the number of early voting days. At the West Tampa...
Be the first to commentWho makes up the Florida electorate? And the President's State of the Union message
01/25/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Susan Macmanus, USF, voting, demographics, I-4 corridor, 2012 Election, Florida primary election
Coming up we'll hear from Dr. Susan MacManus who teaches political science at USF in Tampa. With the GOP primary next week she'll talk about the Florida electorate. What group's are growing in size? Which geographic area will most decide the winner in Florida? What is our religious and age break down? Who are the people who are supervoters? We'll talk about all of these questions. Then we'll hear a portion of the President's State of the Union speech from last night and then take your phone c...
Be the first to commentRepublican Presidential candidates debate at USF Tampa listen
01/24/12 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, USF Clean Energy Research Center, Copper Top Pub, debate, USF, 2012 Election, Florida primary election
With the Florida's primary one week away, the top four GOP candidates for President of the United States gathered at Tampa's University of South Florida last night. WMNF’s Kelly Benjamin reports, the candidates sparred during the nearly two hour long debate.
Newt Gingrich's landslide victory in South Carolina last Saturday has shaken Mitt Romney's perceived front runner status. That’s forcing Romney to go on the offensive. Romney laid into Gingrich several times attempting to connect him t...
Be the first to commentUSF President Judy Genshaft tells FL Legislature she's OK with higher STEM tuition listen
01/18/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Judy Genshaft, USF, Florida Legislature
The Florida House Committee on Education is considering how to increase the number of state university students who pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering and math. University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft told the committee this morning USF is one of the state’s leaders in STEM disciplines.
Some Legislators hope to boost the number of students in STEM programs. They say the science fields better prepare students for employment after graduation than, for example, the...
1 commentsUSF students and faculty celebrate the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. listen
01/12/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, USF, Ray Arsenault, Freedom Riders
Thursday afternoon the University of South Florida kicked off their 25th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior commemorative week. Two guest speakers were experts on the Freedom Riders, a civil rights activism group that Dr. King supported. One of them, Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Junior was one of the students who rode public buses through the segregated South in the early 1960s. And he was with King on the morning he was shot in Memphis.
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New USF medical learning center to create 55 jobs in Tampa with more to come listen
01/09/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Kathy Castor, CAMLS, Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, USF Health, USF
Next month a medical simulation and teaching center will open in Tampa and bring with it 100 jobs. In a press conference this morning, local leaders say they expect the facility to make the Tampa Bay area more economically competitive.
Only 55 of the 100 jobs the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation will bring to Tampa are new – 45 will be transferred from the University of South Florida. But member of Congress [Kathy Castor](...
Be the first to commentSDS formally demands tuition freeze from USF administration listen
11/19/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday
Tags: USF, tuition hike, tuition increase, SDS, Occupy USF
Members of the University of South Florida administration say they were relieved to see that only five people from Students for a Democratic Society attended a meeting in the Marshall Center this morning. SDS at USF said they want a more diplomatic approach in their ongoing demands for a tuition freeze.
Last week about fifty members of [Occupy USF](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occ...
Be the first to commentUSF students honor fallen transgender people listen
11/17/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: transgender, LGBT, USF
Transgender individuals suffer from high rates of unemployment an even homelessness. Those challenges, combined with prejudice, puts this group at a higher risk of both suicide and violence. An LGBT advocacy group held a memorial at USF Tampa Wednesday night for all those who have lost their lives due to being transgender.
Gianna Love is a transgender individual. She’s been taking hormones since she was 17. Prior to that, she struggled with a devoutly religious family who demonized her f...
2 commentsOccupy USF organizers demand tuition freeze listen
11/10/11 Andrea LypkaWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Occupy USF, Tampa, USF, Occupy Tampa, SDS
University of South Florida students are continuing to protest against 15 percent tuition hikes. A crowd of fifty Occupy USF protesters marched across campus to demand a tuition freeze on November 9. Students gathered in front of Cooper Hall and then marched to Patel Center to meet with university officials and administration. Some demonstrators demanded the resignation of USF President Judy Genshaft. Students chanted “Judy got paid off, we got ripped off,” “Hey, ho, tuition hikes have got to...
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