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The approved stadium will include 35,000 seats and host USF's football and women’s lacrosse teams.

The donation is the largest gift ever made to USF Athletics. It will be used to name USF’s future Center for Athletic Excellence, which is part of its $340 million stadium project.

The Western Flyer, which is parked at USF's St. Pete campus, is expected to create new opportunities for students.

USF president Rhea Law said it's an "opportunity to re-imagine the property for a use that more closely aligns with the mission of the university."

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Dana Thompson Dorsey of the University of South Florida about the implications of the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.

University professors and students, including some from USF, are urging a federal appeals court to uphold a decision blocking a 2022 Florida law that would restrict the way race-related concepts can be taught in classrooms - a law that Gov. DeSantis dubbed the "Stop WOKE Act."

Among the items approved in Florida's 2023-24 fiscal year budget are a new Environmental and Oceanographic Sciences Research and Teaching facility on the USF St. Petersburg campus.

Joseph Dituri said his goal was to work on projects related to PTSD, traumatic brain injury and brain traumas, as well as inspire other scholars.

Despite the good news, there has still been a profound increase in sargassum in the Atlantic, and thus Florida’s beaches, compared to the early years of the USF study.

Membership into the Association of American Universities will attract more students and world-class faculty to USF, as well as allow it to compete for federal research funding.

A proposal a USF Board of Trustees committee is set to take up estimates a 35,000-seat football stadium on the Tampa campus would cost $340 million to build.

Shortly before she retired as USF president, Judy Genshaft and her husband, Steven Greenbaum, donated $20 million to help build a new home for the Honors College.