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SDS protests against new tuition hikes at USF Tampa listen

10/04/11 Alessandra Da Pra
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Tags: Tuition fee increases, University of South Florida, Students for a Democratic Society, USF, SDS

About 50 University of South Florida students voiced their discontent and unrest over tuition hikes during a march at the USF Tampa campus today.It was organized by Students for a Democratic Society, a national movement with over 100 chapters in the United States.

Tuition fee increases are nothing new, but students coming back to school this Fall semester were greeted by a bitter surprise: that is a 15 percent tuition hike. And that...

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Residents complain about abuses in Tampa Bay nursing homes listen

09/26/11 Andrea Lypka
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Tags: Agency for Health Care Administration, Assisted Living Facility Governor’s Task Force, Janet Boston, USF

Recent reports of abuses in nursing homes have put Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) under a spotlight. The agency regulates 2,850 assisted-living facilities (ALF) in Florida. Several residents complained about abuses, neglect and other illegal activities in Tampa Bay nursing homes at a meeting organized by the Agency for Health Care Administration's [Assisted Living Facility Governor’s Task Force on September 23](http://ahca.myflorida.com/SC...

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Fletcher Ave near USF plans for pedestrian improvements listen

09/21/11 Janelle Irwin
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Tags: University Area, Hillsborough County Planning Commission, bike lanes, pedestrian deaths, pedestrian safety, USF

Plans for safety improvements to parts of Tampa's Fletcher Avenue in the University of South Florida area are closer to completion. But funding for the project still has not been secured.

Between 2006 and 2010 63 pedestrians were involved in accidents on Fletcher Avenue between Nebraska and 50th Street. There were three fatalities. Peter Brett, traffic operations manager for Hillsborough County said it is stats like those that pr...

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BP awards consortium including USF $11 million for oil spill research

08/30/11 Janelle Irwin
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Tags: BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, USF, marine science

A research consortium led by the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science has been awarded $11 million by BP’s Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to study the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The announcement was made today in Washington. USF was one of eight universities to receive funding. U.S. Representative Kathy Castor called it “vital in the ongoing effort to address the environmental and ecological implications of the BP blowout.” She said an...

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USF's solar-powered house will soon be a reality in Tampa listen

08/16/11 Andrea Lypka
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Tags: FleX House, green technology, Beck Construction, USF, solar power

A team of Florida students has been chosen as a finalist for a green design competition. Their entry, called FLeX House, is a solar-powered home that uses no net energy located near downtown Tampa.

Tampa’s green home is one of 20 international projects that will compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition this fall. Team Florida’s adviser is Stanley Russell, the director of the University of South Fl...

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HIV/AIDS infections an epidemic among African-Americans listen

08/04/11 Josh Holton
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Tags: AIDS, USF Health, HIV, USF, African Americans

Florida HIV infection rates have increased recently in two groups: gay and bisexual males, and African-American females. WMNF’s Josh Holton reports from today’s National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS conference at the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health.

A report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, found that there have been about 50,000 new HIV infections in the country each year from 2006-2009, and that...

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USF researchers study ghost crabs to find out more about impacts of Gulf oil spill listen

07/20/11 Andrea Lypka
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Tags: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, oil spill, USF, Deepwater Horizon, BP oil disaster, beaches

Questions about the impact of last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and the effectiveness of the beach cleanups remain to be answered by researchers. A team of researchers from the University of South Florida say that their study on ghost crab populations and sediments of Gulf beaches might answer these questions.

Susan Bell, professor of biology and chair of the Department of Integrative Biology, and her research team will start to document the D...

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USF Researchers Say Red Light Cameras Do Not Improve Traffic Safety

06/28/11 Robert Lorei
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Tags: red light cameras, USF College of Public Health, Etienne Pracht, USF

Good morning, welcome to radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. In recent years there's been a move by local governments to install red light cameras in order to improve safety at intersections. Our guest today, Etienne Pracht, PhD is part of a research team at the USF College of Public Health which has studied red light cameras. Their studies conclude that the cameras do little to promote safer intersections. And that there are other, cheap...

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Governor Scott leaves beach renourishment funding in budget listen

06/07/11 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: Rick Scott, Jim Frishe, beach renourishment, Beach nourishment, tourism, Pinellas County, beaches, Development, USF

The state of Florida boasts of more than 800 miles of beachfront. Some of these beaches erode so much that encroaching waters threaten buildings and worsen the impacts of storm surge. Across the state, a practice known as beach renourishment attempts to stop this. Such projects rely heavily on state funding, which Governor Rick Scott threatened to cut. But $16 million dollars for beach renourishment was not among the items he vetoed when he signed the state budget passed by the Legislature. B...

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International water experts, students, study Tampa Bay water supply listen

05/27/11 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: UNESCO, Tampa Bay Water, USF, SWFWMD, water

Florida may once have had one of the world’s most richest water stores underlying most of the state, but now water managers across the state are scrambling to come up with more sustainable water sources for the coming decades. For example, Tampa Bay’s water utility is about to repair cracks in the 15 billion gallon CW Bill Young reservoir. The enormous surface water store is just part of the complex system the area uses to distribute the vital resource. An international team of water experts ...

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