Discovery
Tourism Trends
The USF Sarasota-Manatee campus College of Hospitality & Tourism Leadership (CHTL) focuses on preparing students for careers in Florida’s booming hospitality and tourism industry.
Read MoreFully Engaged
From risk assessment to field work in Costa Rica, USF Sarasota-Manatee students undertake meaningful research projects that enrich their academic experience and help position them for success after graduation.
Read MoreUnderstanding Boko Haram
When it comes to researching Boko Haram, the violent jihadist movement that has terrorized northern Nigeria since 2009, the challenges are plain.
Read MoreVeteran Volunteers
Eric Hodges, PhD, is searching for an effective way to integrate returning veterans into civilian society. Combining preliminary research findings with his own experiences as a Marine, he’s proposing that civic engagement.
Read MoreRoly Poly Revelation
Biologist Carlos Santamaria, PhD, is glad his team of student researchers didn’t follow directions when he sent them out to collect specimens from the mangrove forests of Sarasota and Manatee counties.
Read MoreInvesting in Relationships
Even before joining the faculty at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Anthony Coy, PhD, focused his attention on the dyadic perspectives of romantic relationships, taking particular interest in exploring how one partner’s behavior may influence the other.
Read MoreBias by Design
Christine Ruva, PhD, saw a lot of high-profile criminal cases when she worked as a probation and parole officer in Pinellas County in the 1990s, and she always wondered what effect media coverage of those cases had on juries’ decisions.
Read MoreThe Connector
Gerontologist Kathy Black, PhD, says aging is being rewritten before our eyes. “We are in the midst of a great demographic transition,.”
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