From Rocky the Bull stomping out a giant cigarette to high school students finding out what they might look like twenty years from now if they smoked, USF Health rolled out all the stops at a recent event formally banning smoking on its part of the Tampa campus. University Beat on WUSF-TV has more on the decision and how it came about.
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The husband of a USF professor is wrapping up his fourth military tour of Afghanistan, and hes come up with a way to help the children there through a school supply drive. Now USF is getting involved, thanks to his wife, an adjunct professor at the School of Mass Communications. University Beat on WUSF-TV has more.
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Once nearly abandoned in a garage, almost one hundred interviews with prominent members of Tampas African American community have now found a home at the University of South Florida. This weeks University Beat on WUSF TV takes you to the new Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida Oral History Project and shows you how one mans dream is helping students and the community.
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The University of South Florida is in the middle of its Unstoppable fund-raising campaign, with a goal of bringing in $600 million. University Beat on WUSF-TV/DT brings you highlights from the recent formal launch of the public phase of the campaign.
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While the image of male USF students walking around campus in high heels is pretty funny, the reason why a few hundred of them recently did so is decidedly serious. University Beat on WUSF-TV takes you to "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes," an event designed to raise awareness about relationship violence and sexual assault.
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More than 50 authors, including a number of Pulitzer Prize winners, will be coming to USF Saint Petersburg Saturday, October 24th, for the Seventeenth Annual Saint Petersburg Times Festival of Reading.University Beat on WUSF-TV/DT takes a look at some of the writers wholl be meeting the public and talking about their latest works.
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This episode of Florida Matters takes viewers on a virtual trip around the world as it examines the international diversity that helps make living in the Tampa Bay area interesting.
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You might not have been a victim of crime, but we all hear about it in the news every day, and public safety - including police and firefighters - is one of the largest expenditures of our local governments. This episode of Florida Matters examines crime in our state: the types of crimes that are happening more frequently, efforts to deal with repeat offenders, and financial or white-collar crimes. Plus, learn how media coverage of criminal activity influences people's perceptions of crime....
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University Beat on WUSF-TV/DT takes you to the sidelines as a group of students in a USF College of Engineering research program put their custom-made Lego robots to the test in a high-tech game of soccer.
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