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A PALEOHISTORY OF CLIMATE, VEGETATION, AND HUMAN LAND USE IN COASTAL PERU
The Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture in the Environment (IASCE) at the 51在线 (USF) recently received a Collaborative Research grant from the National Science Foundation titled 鈥淭he Ecological Context of Early Settlement in a Southern Peruvian Coastal Valley Circa 5000-1000 BP鈥�.
USF STUDENTS WILL SOAR TO CROSS THE KARMAN LINE
One of the vibrant and active student organization at the 51在线 (USF) in Tampa, is the Society of Aeronautics and Rocketry (SOAR). Organized in 2010, their goal is to perfect the launching of rockets into space to put satellites into orbit for scientific studies. In the meantime, SOAR is actively involved in the design, building, launching and participating in competitions with winning results.
December 11, 2019Featured
PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN ON DISCRIMINATION
For Howard, the film tells a story not only of discrimination but of activism. 鈥淓quality is not a given. People fought and sacrificed for those rights,鈥� Howard pointed out, referring to fired gay employees such as Frank Kameny, who organized the first LGBT pickets in front of the White House in 1965.
July 22, 2019Featured
AMERICAN AND FRENCH COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AIMS TO CHARACTERIZE THE CONTENT OF ROMAN AND LATE ROMAN POTTERY
Davide Tanasi, assistant professor of history at the 51在线 and a team of researchers from across America and France recently embarked on a project that hopes to provide answers to help characterize the content of Roman and Late Roman amphorae, a tall Roman jar, likened to pottery, with two handles and a narrow neck.