USF St. Petersburg Community Relations

10/03/2024

USF St. Petersburg is set up as a donation site and partnering with Sol Relief for distribution.

09/28/2024

If you are without power and need a place to cool off, charge your phone and connect to the internet, USF St. Petersburg campus is opening the University Student Center (USC) to the public from 9 am to 8 p.m. tomorrow - Sunday, Sept. 29.

Our USC is located at 200 6th Ave. S. in downtown St. Petersburg. There will be coffee, other beverages, electricity and WiFi!

For tomorrow, the public can park in any lot on campus. Metered street parking is also available outside the campus. Please come and take a break from the heat.

04/17/2024

Interested in partnering with USF St. Petersburg? If you don’t know how to connect to the correct department or staff on campus, the Office of Community Relations is here to help. This booklet, Engaging with USF St. Petersburg, describes some of the myriad ways to connect with campus resources.

This booklet, Engaging with USF St. Petersburg, describes some of the myriad ways to connect with campus resources.

12/19/2023

Congrats to USF St. Petersburg career services coordinator Rita Zweifel!

We are pleased to announce the Leadership St. Pete® Class of 2024!

This year’s class includes people in academia, healthcare, finance, real estate and philanthropy, among other industries.

“It’s a well-balanced class with different levels of leadership experience already within the class,” said Class Chair Dr. Leslie Hafer, Provost at . Petersburg College. “Every class comes with their own unique set of skills and abilities, but the thing they can always count on every single year is that they’re going to learn more about our community, they’re going to find ways to get involved in our community and they’re going to leave an impact in our community.”

Join us in congratulating the Class of 2024!



St Petersburg Chamber

08/30/2023

Do you have a family keepsake or heirloom you’d like to know more about? Do you have letters, photographs, art, or other historical objects that tell a story about the history of your family or community?

The Department of History at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus is holding its first-ever History Harvest, a one-day event for community members to bring and share letters, photographs, records, objects, and stories, and participate in a conversation with students majoring in History about the significance and meaning of their materials.

Anyone interested in participating in the Harvest is invited to fill out this form by August 31. Questions about the event should be directed to Dr. Erin Mauldin at [email protected]

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=3vcbdOXi30aNZ4Jgffneqvp_ZPKo73pEpVHDIDekVftUOTdNTzFFRUdOMjgyVTA3R01CTjc3QU5aTi4u

08/18/2023

University of South Florida St. Petersburg nursing students will soon move from the adjacent port's ramshackle rooms into nearby state-of-the-art facilities inside Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. The new partnership also provides $857,944 in scholarship and faculty salary funding and guarante...

08/17/2023

Do you have a family keepsake or heirloom you’d like to know more about? Do you have letters, photographs, art, or other historical objects that tell a story about your family or community? The Department of History at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg is holding its first-ever History Harvest, a one-day event for community members to bring and share letters, photographs, records, objects, and stories, and participate in a conversation with students majoring in History about the significance and meaning of their materials. Artifact selection will be limited. Selected artifacts will be viewed and processed at the History Harvest, where students will digitally catalogue objects and briefly interview owners as to their item’s backstory. No items will be taken or kept from the event, and no value appraisals will be available. Students will use the items and oral histories as the basis for a semester-long historical research project.

WHEN: September 18, 2023 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
DEADLINE FOR ARTIFACT SUBMISSIONS: August 31, 2023
APPLY HERE: https://forms.office.com/r/fw6jxEyc7G

OR SCAN THE QR CODE
Questions? Contact Dr. Erin Mauldin at [email protected]

06/05/2023

With hurricane season approaching, the USF St. Petersburg's Initiative on Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (iCAR) is working to enhance disaster preparedness, streamline recovery efforts and provide greater access to resources within communities with the greatest needs. ICAR is hosting a public town hall in collaboration with Pinellas County Emergency Management on June 10 from 10 a.m to noon at the Mattie L. Gardner Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. to share information on neighborhood-level initiatives geared towards increasing the community’s overall resilience.

With hurricane season approaching, the USF St. Petersburg Initiative on Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (iCAR) is working to enhance disaster preparedness, streamline recovery efforts and provide greater access to resources within such communities. iCAR is hosting a public town hall in collaborati...

06/02/2023

Congratulations Dev Shah from Morgan Fitzgerald Middle School in Largo for winning the Scipps National Spelling Bee! We hope we can call him a Bull one day!

Dev Shah, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida, won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, correctly spelling the word ‘psammophile’ to take home the $50,000 first prize.

05/22/2023

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Experts explore and explain how hunger/food insecurity are used as weapons of control and suppression affecting global and national security

05/15/2023

USF researchers secured 84 new patents in 2022! USF is 14th among American public research universities and 35th among all universities worldwide in generating new patents. This marks the 10th year USF has ranked in the top 15 among American public universities.

USF continues to rank among the top universities for new patents, from USFRI News in Research & Innovation at the University of South Florida.