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New report says USF’s Innovation Enterprise contributes hundreds of millions to the local and state economy

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The University of South Florida’s “Innovation Enterprise” contributes close to $395 million to the Tampa Bay area economy, according to a new report issued on Wednesday. The report by the Coral Gables based Washington Economics Group (WEG), is the first in-depth study on the specific impact and return on investment for the university’s innovation efforts. It shows that approximately 1,550 people are directly employed in the USF Innovation Enterprise. The report says another 1,467 related jobs are sustained among partner organizations and businesses that provide goods…

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Once-controversial Florida Poly University gets expansion funds

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Now in its second year of operation the state’s newest university, Florida Polytechnic in Lakeland, will receive money in this year’s state budget for its second major academic building and funding for a new program. In the budget, and approved earlier by the Board of Governors, are $5 million for the preliminary preparation and construction of the Applied Research Center and $2.5 million for a program named the Enterprise Center to spur and aid in developing local technology startups. “Though…

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University of South Florida president gets big pay raise

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The president of the University of South Florida is about to get a significant pay raise. The university’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Thursday to increase Judy Genshaft‘s base salary 5 percent to $493,500. The Tampa Tribune reports that with a performance-based stipend of up to $275,000, she could earn $768,500. The school’s longest-serving president has also secured at least one more year at the helm. The Tribune reports Genshaft has a history of meeting performance goals, approved by the…

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USF Heart Institute is largest request from Hillsborough House members

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Among the items Hillsborough County legislators are requesting in the just-unveiled 2016-2017 House budget, none looms larger than the $22.5 million sought for the USF Morsani College of Health Heart Institute. In February 2015, USF’s request to relocate its new Morsani College of Medicine and USF Heart Institute to downtown Tampa was approved, and in June, Gov. Rick Scott allotted $17 million from the state budget to fund it. The total cost of the project is about $153 million. According…

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Kathy Castor tells VA Secretary that latest reported problems are “unacceptable”

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Tampa/St. Pete Congresswoman Kathy Castor has become just the latest member of Congress to blast the persistent problems with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Listing three major problems that have surfaced in the news recently, the lawmaker has penned a letter to VA Secretary Robert McDonald, where she states that, “the VA has not met its responsibility to our veterans on a number of fronts. Veterans’ personal information has not been safeguarded with requisite care, our veterans have been forced into…

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Tampa Bay elite gathers to dedicate USF’s new Channel District med school

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A crowd filled with members of the Tampa Bay political and business elite, along with USF donors and members from the USF medical community congregated Tuesday morning where the USF College of Medicine and Healthy Heart Institute will be built in the city’s Channel District. The medical facilities are the “anchors” of the massive development being envisioned by Strategic Property Partners, the development company owned by Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik, and Cascade Investment. “For the record, as of this…

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Activists determined to have Bill Young’s name removed from USF building

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Members from the Tampa Bay chapter of Students for a Democratic Society aren’t backing down from their call that USF President Judy Genshaft change the name of C.W. Bill Young Hall. Activists want the late Pinellas County congressman’s name removed from the building that houses the USF ROTC program over Young’s involvement with the Johns Committee in the early 1960s. The group worked to identify gay students and faculty on the USF campus and other public universities in Florida. In…

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