Featured Events
Past Events
Homecoming Week 2006
50 Years of Pride - 10 Years of Football. Show your Bull pride and participate in Homecoming festivities all week.
Details: Monday, October 30, 2006 through Saturday, November 4, 2006. See http://www.usfhomecoming.com for a complete schedule of events.
Faculty & Staff Appreciation Event and Football Game
Come relax and enjoy the Faculty & Staff Appreciation Event on Saturday, September 9, 2006. Tailgate festivities are from 4:30–6:45 pm at Raymond James Stadium (Lot 6). The tailgate will feature food, refreshments and activities. Game kickoff is 7 pm when our USF Bulls will take on the FIU Golden Panthers.
Employees and their families can purchase discounted tickets for $11 each, which includes the tailgate party and a game ticket. Tickets can be purchased at the athletics ticket office (located at Entry 3 of the Sun Dome). Season ticket holders can pick up a free tailgate party wristband by visiting the athletics ticket office.
Details: Saturday, September 9, 2006 from 4:30-6:45 pm at Raymond James Stadium
Vik Muniz: Reflex
For more than a decade, Brazilian born Vik Muniz has been dazzling audiences worldwide with his photographs of images created from an astonishing variety of materials such as dirt, diamonds, sugar, wire, string, thread, chocolate syrup, peanut butter, dust, ketchup, the circular paper remnants made by hole punches, junk and pigment. The images Muniz creates are often familiar, remembered from the news, history, or the media. After an initial moment of recognition, it quickly becomes clear that these images are not what they first seemed. It’s an approach to art that Muniz calls "the worst possible illusion."
Muniz’ illusions have earned him critical acclaim and widespread recognition. Time Magazine named him one of its leaders of the new millennium and the New York Times has recommended his work as a sure-fire antidepressant, describing it as "an idea wrapped in surprise and laughter." The exhibition will also include 50 photogravures produced at Graphicstudio.
Details: July 7 - October 7, 2006 at the USF Contemporary Art Museum
30th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition
The Annual USF Juried Student Art Exhibition is an opportunity for students to have their artwork reviewed by an art professional from outside of the University and to see it displayed in a museum environment. The University and Tampa Bay community can view emerging talent nurtured by the faculty of the School of Art and Art History.
Details: April 7 – May 26, 2006 at the USF Contemporary Art Museum
Spring Commencement
The USF Commencement Ceremony, rich in tradition, opens with the processional of the mace. Attend the 2006 Spring Commencement and celebrate the milestone of graduation.
Details: Saturday, May 5, 2006 @ 9-11 am, 2-4 pm, & 6-8 pm.
"Crumbs From the Table of Joy"
The touching story of an African American family seen through the eyes of a seventeen year old daughter. When the Crump family moves to Brooklyn in 1950, their pursuit of the "American Dream" is complicated by issues of race, romance and religion.
Details: April 6-8 & 12-15, 2006 @ 8 pm; April 8 & 9, 2006 @ 3 pm
Wangari Maathai
The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, Wangari Muta Maathai pioneered the concept of mobilizing communities to protect their environment through tree planting in 1976, while an active member of the National Council of Women of Kenya. A year later she developed this idea into a grassroots organization, The Green Belt Movement. Wangari Maathai is internationally recognized for her persistent struggle for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation. Over the years, she and the Green Belt Movement have received numerous awards, most notably the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Currently, Maathai is an elected Member of Parliament and serves as Kenya’s Deputy Minister of Environment.
Details: Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 7 pm in the Special Events Center
The 2006 Children's Festival
The event is sponsored by the USF College of Education and designed for elementary and middle school students and their families to experience learning together at no cost. Its goal is to celebrate children and learning through a variety of activities. At the festival children and their families will learn new and creative ways to learn and to view learning. There will be performances by elementary and middle school students and activity booths where children will do arts and crafts, listen to stories, and become involved in interactive learning. Close to 3,000 people are expected to come from surrounding community and schools.
Details: Saturday, March 4, 2006 from 10 am - 4 pm
Jared Diamond
Author and biologist Jared Diamond will hold a book signing and lecture Thursday, March 2, 2006 in the Special Events Center from 7-9 pm. Diamond is renowned globally for his popular scientific works that combine anthropology, biology, linguistics, genetics, and history. He is the author of the 1997 book Guns, Germs, and Steel, which asserts that the main international issues of our time are legacies of processes that began during the early-modern period, in which civilizations that had experienced an extensive amount of "human development" began to intrude upon simpler civilizations around the world. In his most recent book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Diamond examines what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin and considers what contemporary society can learn from their fates. Diamond is currently a professor of geography and of environmental health sciences at the University of California – Los Angeles.
Details: Thursday, March 2, 2006 in the Special Events Center from 7-9 pm
Desmond Tutu
Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, will speak at the Sun Dome January 19, 2006 at 7 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Message from the President
President Judy Genshaft delivers a video message discussing the extraordinary achievements of our students, alumni, faculty, staff, and partners throughout the world during the past 50 years. Watch the video or visit USF's Netcast website for instructions on viewing the streaming video.
USF Announces Official Kickoff Week
USF will begin the official celebration of its 50th Anniversary on January 17, 2006. Festivities include an appearance by Desmond Tutu and other kickoff events to be detailed in the 50th Anniversary section of the USF Calendar of Events.