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Dr. Kala Vairathamoorthy is known around the globe as an authority on water issues related to urban growth, climate change and how a population can benefit from a sustainable water system in the face of future challenges. He now brings his expertise and leadership to USF in his role as director of the Patel School of Global Sustainability. Vairathamoorthy is committed to a school dedicated to interdisciplinary research and teaching with a focus on improving the quality of human life and supporting fragile ecosystems.

USF's partnership with Apple has led to tens of millions of downloads of classic literature, lectures and engaging content worldwide while the use of Apple technology has modernized care at USF Health and allowed the university's students to pursue their education via mobile technology.

Why children kill is the question USF professor Kathleen Heide is seeking an answer to. Kathleen Heide, Ph.D, is a Professor of Criminology at University of South Florida's College of Behavioral and Community Sciences in Tampa, Florida. Heide studies violence in children, has evaluated hundreds of troubled kids and has testified in court many times.

A personal tragedy yields a triumph of the spirit as members of the USF dance and engineering communities work together to create a wheel chair that helps break stereotypes of persons with disabilities.

Dr. D. Yogi Goswami is the John and Naida Ramil Professor at University of South Florida. He and his team at the College of Engineering are building a solar power plant at the Tampa campus of USF; their aim is to find a way to make solar energy available 24 hours a day at affordable prices.  The on campus solar power plant is funded with a grant from the State of Florida through the Florida Energy Systems Consortium. Included in this project is a thermal storage system being developed with $ 3.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The University of South Florida's College of Marine Science is charged with exploring and monitoring the waters around Florida and beyond to increase understanding and appreciation of their value to the planet.

A look at how scientists, researchers, staff and graduate students at USF's College of Marine Science responded to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. The team tracked the spill and continues to assess environmental damage.