graduate sooner, and they do better in
their GPA,” said Judy Genshaft, USF
president.
Next door to USFSP, the Poynter
Institute for Media Studies continues
to be the world-renowned educational
center for journalism studies, and
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital,
a regional pediatric referral center for
Florida’s west coast, is one of the top 50
children’s hospitals in the country. Last
year, the hospital opened a new $85
million, 225,000-square-foot research
center, which includes a high-tech medical
simulation center for teaching and
state-of-the-art research labs.
INTERSECTION OF ART
& TECHNOLOGY
The Dali Museum is located in the
Innovation District, too. It’s not often
that you think of a world-class art
museum being a hub of the latest
embracing this concept. The Dali
CHANGING LANDSCAPES
Eckerd College tudents
survey on South Beach
with Geoscience and
Marine Science Professor
Laura Wetzel. Photo
courtesy Eckerd College.
Photo by Sean Beckwith
Steve Butcher, from the CMS Ocean Technology Group, assisted Matt Garrett and Eric
Muhlbach, from FWC’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, as they deployed a glider that
helped explain the occurrence of the 14-month long red tide that ended in 2018.
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