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$4.8M Mellon Foundation grant opens internship opportunities for USF humanities students

For the first time, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities — invited the University of South Florida to submit a proposal last spring for one of its humanities internship grants. The foundation awarded the college a five-year, $4.8 million grant that will support up to 900 students each year in otherwise unpaid internships. The beneficiaries will be undergraduate students majoring in humanities.

Mellon Internship

Arts and Sciences News

Uncovering ocean tech

The Rising Tides Podcast” covers ocean research from space to the seafloor, including the use of buoys, satellites, and submersibles to advance marine science. Credit: Jay Law.

Designed for ocean experts and general audiences alike, “The Rising Tides Podcast” invites oceanographers to discuss their ground-breaking research.

Transforming waste

person's gloved hands sifting through mulch

A new partnership between USF St. Petersburg and the City of St. Petersburg will bring an industrial-sized composter to campus to process food waste.

Growing up digital

several kids seated use their smartphones

Findings will help inform a 25-year national study that will track young people’s digital media use and wellbeing into adulthood.

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Ajibola Tolase (center left) and Aracelis Gonzalez Asendorf (center right) attend the Florida Book Awards ceremony

USF poets bring home gold, silver and bronze book awards

04/22/25 — Ajibola Tolase, an assistant professor in the Department of English, won a gold medal from the Florida Book for his poetry collection “2000 Blacks.” He joins colleagues Heather Sellers, who received a bronze medal in the poetry category in 2022 for her collection, “Field Notes from the Flood Zone,” and Julia Koets, who received a silver award in the poetry category in 2021 for her collection, “Pine.”

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CAS alumna plans more accessible future for Tampa Bay

Amanda Harig, an alumna from the School of Public Affairs, credits her already impressive career to the hands-on experiences and mentorship she received during her time at USF.