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		<title>USF Launches &#8220;Partner With USF&#8221; Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The university has developed a new website designed to assist the external community in accessing information about how they can partner with USF. The website, titled Partner With USF, launched May 21. A link to the new site can be found on the USF homepage. The URL is: usf.edu/partner The website content was developed by a cross-functional team made up of representatives from Academic Affairs, the Career Center, the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships, the Business Engagement Center, IT and University Communications and Marketing. The content is designed specifically to engage the business community and community organizations who may be interested in learning more about how they can partner with the university. There is information designed to help businesses hire our graduates and provide internships for our current students, as well as links to information about USF&#8217;s business incubator, research park, patents and intellectual property and more. Site visitors will also find information about corporate education and training, continuing education offerings, degree programs and customized training options, as well as technology services and conference hosting. Additional content will be developed and added in the future. The new website will be promoted on a billboard that will display northbound on I-275 at the I-4 interchange throughout the month of June. To view the original article click here.]]></description>
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		<title>Biking for Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USF student Kiersten Downs will bicycle from San Francisco to Washington to support veterans transitioning to university life. By Katy Hennig USF News TAMPA, Fla. (May 8, 2013) &#8211; Kiersten Downs is a veteran, activist and athlete and her passion for encouraging and inspiring fellow student veterans is a powerful force in her next mission: pedaling her road bike across the country, from San Francisco to Washington D.C., in a momentous effort to support the veteran transition from military to university life. “It’s an important topic for me because I am very inspired by higher education in general. It’s a passion of mine; it’s what has gotten me to this point in my life,” said Downs, a doctoral student at the University of South Florida. Downs’ focus with her Bike America Student Veterans Ride for Education is to raise awareness and funding for the national nonprofit Student Veterans of America, which is a coalition of over 800 peer-run student organizations across the country, on campuses all across the U.S. According to Downs, “the importance of these peer-run organizations is they can really be used as vehicles of social change at the university setting from the ground up. These are students coming together with a unified voice to accomplish goals that they’ve set, university wide.” Through Bike America, Downs plans to ride more than 3,800 miles from San Francisco to Washington D.C., linking up with different cycling groups from Student Veterans of America across the country, completing her journey at the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Activating a Community</title>
		<link>http://engagement.rc.usf.edu/?p=5267</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Melendez TAMPA, Fla. (May 3, 2013) – Bradenton’s Village of the Arts wants to attract more people to its eclectic galleries, picturesque restaurants and brightly painted buildings. That won’t happen without planning and action. Previously, University of South Florida students in an urban landscapes design workshop impressed town leaders with their ideas for Bradenton’s Riverwalk which opened last October. The relationship with USF continues with a new focus on Village of the Arts. School of Architecture and Community Design (SACD) Assistant Professor Shannon Bassett, working with her graduate research assistants Adam Skwirsk and Michael Marti, in cooperation with Realize Bradenton and New College of Florida, has stepped up to this latest challenge. An array of creative potential solutions is the result. Bassett, Skwirsk and Marti presented their final design proposal concepts, &#8220;The Village Tapestry,&#8221; to the area’s residents, artists, and business owners at a recent community meeting. This was the last of a series of presentations following an initial design charrette in January – all involving the community. In the upcoming month, Bassett will be working on a final proposal document with recommendations to submit to Realize Bradenton, the Bradenton Downtown Development Authority and the Village’s residents. “This will provide them with the framework to begin the implementation of the overall plan,” Bassett said. To prepare, the USF team walked up and down the streets of the Village. They explored Towles Court, a similar though much smaller community in neighboring Sarasota – one block versus 42 acres. They ...]]></description>
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		<title>USF student to bike across America to support student veterans</title>
		<link>http://engagement.rc.usf.edu/?p=5258</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Times by Stephanie Hayes Kiersten Downs was sitting in a Feminist Research Methods class when MTV called, wondering about her one-woman bike ride across America. Downs was thrilled. Any attention would help the University of South Florida doctoral student and her cause. She was financing a bike trip out of her own pocket to benefit Student Veterans of America. She had saved enough to get 3,800 miles from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., and she still needed a $600 GPS to guide the way. She planned to figure it out as she went. An MTV crew came to campus last week. Downs talked on camera about helping veterans get back to school and rode her bike around USF. She taught an indoor cycling class at the USF gym. The wheels were spinning, cameras rolling. Then the door burst open. Downs was 18 when she chose the military. She had an adventurous spirit and not much direction. She lived in Friendsville, Pa., population 111. She imagined seeing the world, doing something physical. She went to a military recruiting office and joined the Air Force in June 2001. Three months later, before reporting for duty, she sat on a couch with her mother and watched terrorists attack the World Trade Center. Her mother&#8217;s eyes rimmed with water. Downs would be in this for the long run. She spent four years on active duty in the Air Force, traveling the world. She took in everything around her and found herself wanting ...]]></description>
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		<title>School leftovers don&#8217;t go to waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Learning Gate Community School in Lutz, students are learning the importance of recycling food waste. Robert Bair, who is Ph.D. student, and Dr. Daniel Yeh, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at USF, have introduced innovative practices to integrate the school&#8217;s waste into a renewable energy source. It takes about 30 pounds of uneaten food and turns garbage into biogas and fertilizer. Then, the fertilizer goes toward growing vegetables in the school&#8217;s greenhouse, and eventually, the biogas will help power the school. The students are taking part in the project by making mini-digesters of their own to understand how the process works. They will have a &#8220;recycling in action&#8221; experience that will make a difference in the way they think about school leftovers. Click here for the full story. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Touring Tampa&#8217;s History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the month of April, Dr. Barbara Berglund featured her &#8220;Urban Public History&#8221; class in the &#8220;Do the Local Motion!&#8221; program. The program is run through Downtown Tampa Partnerships, which puts on tours for the public in Tampa&#8217;s urban areas. As a way to combine learning with community engagement, Dr. Berglund divided her students into four distinct groups to lead four separate tours around the Tampa area. The tours featured an early history of Tampa, a peak into Downtown Tampa&#8217;s history of mob activity, and cultural spectacles like Franklin Street and memorials around town. To view full coverage of the walks go to: ABC News, USF Magazine, and 83 degrees. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>USF Muslim group finds rewards in helping homeless</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TAMPA &#8211; For Hajjah Kamara, it’s become a tradition. Every Friday for the past seven years, no matter the weather conditions or what holiday might fall, the University of South Florida senior treks to downtown Tampa to feed the homeless. She’s a long-time member and the current president of Project Downtown, a Muslim-based organization founded in 2005, dedicated to improving the lives of the needy by nourishing their bodies and renewing their spirits. “When you walk along Bayshore (Boulevard) you see so much wealth but ironically just next door there are people sleeping in the bushes,” Kamara said. “That’s something that I take to heart.” And she is not alone in her thinking. Some 50 to 60 like-minded young Project Downtown volunteers who have signed with the project believe the war against poverty needs begin in their own back yard. “We are the future and we need to have that connection with the homeless,” said Kamara, an international studies major who plans to attend law school. She said the food they provide, much of it donated by businesses such as Salem’s Gyros &#38; Subs and Westshore Pizza, is an icebreaker to stir up conversations with the homeless. It give faces to an issue Kamara said affects more than 17,000 people throughout Hillsborough County. “Contrary to stereotypes you find they are not all alcoholics or people who are mentally ill. A lot have jobs but they don’t earn enough to sustain themselves,” said Kamara, who noted the group often hands out ...]]></description>
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		<title>USF is named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Arney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of South Florida has been named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Honorees are chosen based on a series of selection factors, including the scope and innovation of service projects, the extent to which service-learning is embedded in the curriculum, the school’s commitment to long-term campus-community partnerships, and measurable community outcomes as a result of the service. This honor bestows national recognition to USF and its faculty, staff, and students for their dedication to community service and civic engagement, which are promoted and supported by the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement as well as the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Work begins on USF Health Specialty Care Center in The Villages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE VILLAGES, FL (March 11, 2013) – Construction began Monday morning on the new USF Health Specialty Care Center in The Villages, setting the stage for a new era and range of health care available for residents in “America’s Healthiest Hometown.” Once the center opens in October, residents of The Villages, the nation’s largest community of people over 55, will be able to receive high-level care from faculty physicians who operate at the forefront of medical knowledge. USF Health doctors who represent several specialties will be providing care at the 25,000 square foot facility. The center is designed as a collaborative complement to The Villages Health primary care network, which is now expanding and will soon operate seven different offices in The Villages for residents to choose from, allowing them to receive the best health care without leaving their neighborhood. USF President Judy Genshaft visited the center for groundbreaking ceremonies Monday morning, along with Trustees Hal Mullis and Debbie Sembler. “Today marks a great step on our journey to creating a whole new model of health care here in ‘America’s Healthiest Hometown,’ The Villages,” said President Genshaft. The unique partnership provides a model for comprehensive care that is truly centered around the patient, said Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, dean of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and CEO of USF Health. “Working together, we will be able to provide better health for The Villagers over the entire spectrum of care,” Dr. Klasko said. “Villagers will have a medical home with a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Service-Learning Day, March 7, 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 7th, the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships, along with the Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence and the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, hosted Service-Learning Day. Nearly thirty faculty and instructors—some coming from as far as USF Sarasota-Manatee—attended the event. Service-Learning Day featured a breakfast roundtable discussion on experiential models in the STEM fields, several presentations on developing service-learning courses, and a featured guest presentation by Leandra Preston-Sidler (University of Central Florida), who was awarded by Florida Campus Compact as the 2012 Service Learning Faculty Member of the Year Award for the State University Sector. Click on the links below to view the PowerPoints used in the presentations. &#160; Breakfast Roundtable: Experiential Models in the STEM Fields moderated by Eugenie Vomvoridi-Ivanovic (Department of Secondary Education) Plenary Presentation Moving the Needle: Report on Experiential Learning’s Effect on Student Success by Elizabeth Strom (Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships) Adjusting Curriculum for Service Learning moderated by Kevin Yee (Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence) Service Learning Through Capstone Design: USF’s EWRE Capstone Class by Sarina Ergas (Department of Civil &#38; Environmental Engineering) Service-Learning at INTO USF by Krista Bittenbender Royal (INTO USF) Helping Students Write Effective Reflections with Intellectual Content by Robin Jones (Department of Geography, Environment and Planning) Getting Started with Service Learning and Finding Partners by Lance Arney (Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships) and Bonnie Silvestri (USF Sarasota-Manatee) Featured Presentation Making it Work: Service Learning Dos, Don’ts, and Lessons from the Trenches by Leandra Preston-Sidler ...]]></description>
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