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 Topic: Youth Sports July 21 - July 27, 2002 In 1968, the National Youth Sports Program started at Ohio State University and the University of Southern California. A year later, it came to the University of South Florida. Director Hildreth Fleming says, during the five-week, Federally funded program, about 425 low-income teenagers from around the bay area get free instruction in at least two sports...emphasis on the word "instruction!" Listen Now! If you would like more information on this
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Topic: Antarctica July 14 - July 20, 2002 USF marine scientists are studying the Antarctic krill. The research melds physical oceanography and biological oceanography so that scientists can better understand the influence of ocean circulation on marine life. Listen Now! If you would like more information on this
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| Topic: Trade Corridors July 7 - July 13, 2002 Experts recently gathered in Tampa for a USF co-sponsored conference, "Vulnerability Reduction in Trade Corridor Development." Listen Now! If you would like more
information on this subject, please contact: or Thomas Mason
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Researchers at USF's Center for Biological Defense have come up with a three-step process that kills possibly dangerous anthrax spores while still leaving the bacteria alive. This creates a safer work environment for the testing of samples. It also lets testers work faster. Listen Now! If you would like
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USF researchers are now talking about the possibility that certain tests may detect the Alzheimer's disease decades before it strikes. Listen Now! If you would like more information on this
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There are millions of stories from people who were in New York City on September 11th, 2001. Recently, the USF School of Mass communication and the Society of Professional Journalists' Mid-Florida Chapter invited Pulitzer Prize nominated photographer David Handschuh to help people understand what the media faced that fateful day. Handschuh witnessed the events of the day through a camera lens. Listen Now! If you would like more
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Topic: School Computers June 9 - June 15, 2002 The second and fourth grade classes at Clearview Avenue Elementary School in Saint Petersburg are working everyday with some of the latest computer technology, thanks to University of South Florida and the research-based project "No Strings Attached." Listen Now! If you would like more information on this
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Topic: College Drinking June 2 - June 8, 2002 A task force co-chaired by Mark Goldman, a distinguished research professor in the Psychology Department at the University of South Florida, and University of Notre Dame President Father Edward Malloy, shows that college drinking and its consequences are much more serious than many have thought. Listen Now! If you would like more information on this
subject, please contact: Website Cited: www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov |
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Students in USF'S School of Archaeology recently participated in a dig on the north side of the Tampa campus. According to Professor Nancy White, they are doing research into the prehistoric past of Florida's original people. Listen Now! If you would like more information on this
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"What's wrong with downtown Tampa?" It's a question many residents have asked, and it's one that 11 graduate students at USF's School of Architecture and Community Design recently tried to answer. Listen Now! If you would like more information on this
subject, please contact: Michelle Carlyon (email:
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The University of South Florida is taking people back in time, to Saint Petersburg. Jim Schnur from the Special Collections section of the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library on the Saint Pete campus, says a film found by Phyllis Jordan, and was shot in Saint Petersburg around 1929. Listen Now! If you would like more information on this
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Topic: Scholarship in Action May 5 - May 11, 2002 Some USF officials are calling "The Center for Scholarship in Action" one of the most ambitious efforts ever by the school to put research and teaching into service. Carol Mackinnin-Lewis, the center's Director and a Professor in the Department of Children and Family Studies, says the major difficulty that people and organizations outside the school face is figuring out how to access the different resources at such a large university. Listen now. If you would like more information on this
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| Topic: Uplift Program April 28- May 4, 2002 Depression, relationships, and health are three issues that "The Uplift Program" hopes to address. The program was recently brought to the University of South Florida by the University's Center for Positive Health and the College of Public Health's Continuing Education Department. "The Uplift Program" was created by the husband and wife team psychotherapists Alicia Fortenberry and Psychologist Bob Murray. Listen now. If you would like more information on this
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Topic: College Bound Success Program/SAT Preparation March 3 - March 9, 2002 In its nearly three year history, USF's "Promoting College Bound Success Program" has helped close to 300 minority high school students from all over Pinellas County get ready for the SAT and ACT exams. Doctor Alexis Zubrod, the program's acting coordinator say the pupils learn a lot during an intensive nine-week session. Listen Now If
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Topic: Alzheimer's-Adapt February 24 - March 2, 2002 The latest study at USF's Roskamp Institute is
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Topic: Suncoast Writers Conference February 17 - February 23, 2002 Over 400 presenters and participants recently
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Topic: Philosophy February 10 – February 16, 2002 A new class has made its debut at the University of South Florida this semester, and it brings together concepts from literature and movies from around the world. But now, "Philosophy in Literature and Film" takes place in a world changed by the events of September 11th, 2001. Charles Guignon, a philosophy professor who just came from the University of Vermont last September, says while events of that month aren’t specifically part of his syllabus, they just naturally intrude upon the subject matter. Listen Now If
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Topic: Digital Divide February 3 – February 9, 2002 The “digital divide”...it’s a phrase that unfortunately is becoming as common as "www-dot" or "the information superhighway," and it’s something a pair of USF researchers are looking into. Listen Now If
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Topic: JJ On The Bay January 27 - February 2, 2002 The life and works of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century will be celebrated February 1st and 2nd at USF's Sarasota-Manatee campus. " JJ On the Bay," a commemoration of the 120th birthday of James Joyce, is taking place at USF after 15 years at the University of Miami. Conference Coordinator Joan Saunders says her previous work on Bloom's Day, which commemorates the odyssey Leopold Bloom undertook in Joyce's classic, "Ulysses," helped convince Joycians the Sarasota-Manatee area was a good choice. Listen Now! If
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Topic: Neighborhood News Bureau January 20 - January 26, 2002 Stop the presses! They've opened the doors on the "Neighborhood News Bureau" on USF's Saint Petersburg Campus. Professor Mike Killenberg, the Director of the Journalism Studies Program, says it began as a class discussion four years ago. Listen Now If
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Topic: Thermoelectrics January 13 - January 19, 2002 From the scientist "Yofay" in Saint Petersburg, Russia in the 1950s to researcher Julian Goldsmith in the early 1970s, the field of thermoelectrics has seen many advances. Now, an Assistant Professor in USF's Department of Physics who co-wrote a book with Goldsmith, hopes to make his own contribution. First, however, Doctor George Nolas needs to define "thermoelectrics." Listen Now If
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Topic: Spinach-Age January 6 - January 12, 2002 And the "finish" for Popeye probably came with his memory and mental skills at or near their peak...at least that's the theory a professor in USF's Department of Neurosurgery is working on. Doctor Paula Bickford, a career scientist at the V.A. Medical Center, says as people age, oxidative stress and the buildup of "free radicals" cause damage to the brain, leading to age-related mental deterioration, and quite possibly, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. The answer may be found in antioxidants. Listen Now If
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| Archived University Beat Segments Did you miss a segment of University Beat? No problem. Hear on-line University Beat segments that were broadcast on WUSF 89.7 between August 12 through September 29, 2001. |
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