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The Studio@620 digital collection opens at library

Library launches digital archive featuring 20 years of work from The Studio@620

The Nelson Poynter Memorial Library unveiled a new comprehensive digital collection and gallery exhibit highlighting two decades’ worth of artistic material from the popular art venue The Studio@620 and its co-founder, Bob Devin Jones.

September 17, 2024Campus News, Community Partnerships

Aerial view of Harborwalk.

New This Year

The start of the academic year brings fresh features and additions to campus. At USF St. Petersburg, that means new educational, health and recreational opportunities. Check out all that’s new this year!

August 22, 2024Campus News, Student Life

The life-size panoramic video installation features 14 boats crossing a sea, each with its unique collection of masked characters.

GENERATOR art exhibit will feature a panoramic video installation

The USF College of The Arts’ Contemporary Art Museum GENERATOR will debut a new exhibition, MARE MAGNVM, by artist Edison Peñafiel. The life-size panoramic video installation features 14 boats crossing a sea, each with its unique collection of characters.

August 20, 2024Campus News, Events

Students painting garage mural in parking garage.

Marine mural adds color and vitality to campus parking garage

The newest addition to USF St. Petersburg is a lively and colorful mural of Tampa Bay’s marine environment spanning all seven floors of the campus parking garage. 

August 8, 2024Campus News

CRESCENDO team after concert

An interdisciplinary team of faculty and students turns environmental impact data into music

USF Anthropologist Heather O’Leary turned her coastal impact data into music that people could understand and enjoy. The project, CRESCENDO, is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students working together to create and disseminate moving music about the environment.

February 20, 2024Campus News, Research and Innovation, Sustainability

St. Pete Science Festival school day

St. Petersburg Science Festival & MarineQuest returns with exciting new STEM and art exhibits

The St. Petersburg Science Festival and MarineQuest returned with more hands-on activities than ever before, including a mobile aquarium, seagrass maze and a shark show utilizing virtual reality. The event aims to inspire creativity, engage curiosity and deepen knowledge of science and the arts.

February 7, 2024Community Partnerships, Events, Research and Innovation

Panel discussion during the St. Pete Conference on World Affairs

Global affairs conference explored how artificial intelligence is changing the world

Distinguished speakers from around the world discussed issues related to international relations, business, culture and climate change through the lens of artificial intelligence at the largest conference on global affairs in the Tampa Bay region.

February 1, 2024Community Partnerships, Events

Students in the process of painting a new street mural on campus.

New street mural adds color and vibrancy to campus

A new street mural in between the University Student Center and Student Life Center melds geometric figures with school spirit. It was painted by a Graphic Arts faculty member along with 10 students and was part of the SHINE St. Petersburg Mural Festival.

October 18, 2023Community Partnerships, Events

The Vertical Migration viewer responsive animation will be featured in the new exhibition.

USF Contemporary Art Museum’s inaugural GENERATOR exhibition opens on the St. Petersburg campus

As part of its ongoing expansion of arts programming across the bay, USF College of The Arts’ Contemporary Art Museum is presenting the GENERATOR exhibition on the St. Petersburg campus. The free exhibition will run from October 6 through November 22 in the Harbor Hall Gallery.

October 6, 2023Campus News, Events

Honors class goes out to sea.

Judy Genshaft Honors College class experiences the high seas firsthand

Students from five Honors Colleges in the State University System boarded a research vessel for an overnight trip into the Gulf of Mexico. While on board, they participated in lab-based research, observed marine life, and explored society's relationship with the ocean.

March 23, 2023Campus News, Student Life

PlacemattersSP/FloridaStudies Speaker Series

New speaker series invites community to learn about history and preservation in Florida

Two new speakers’ series on the USF St. Petersburg campus will give the public a chance to explore history and local preservation through interactive and engaging lectures during the spring semester.

February 16, 2023Campus News, Community Partnerships, Events

Science Festival St. Pete

St. Petersburg Science Festival and MarineQuest returns for in-person experience after more than four years

For the first time since 2018, the St. Petersburg Science Festival and MarineQuest will return to an in-person experience that will engage curiosity and deepen knowledge of science and the arts.

February 13, 2023Community Partnerships, Events

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