University Beat; Compilation of Clips

This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey. Our language is spiced with phrases such as ideas that take root or plant seeds in someone's mind and unguarded such as the nature of zone at Tyrone elementary school or frog TIR elementary school. Butterfly Garden teachers cultivate children's imaginations hundreds of Bay Area teachers use gardens and plants as teaching tools. U.S. Education Professor Rosanne Blass says there's a natural connection to Cicero said at first. When he said if you have a garden in a book you have all you need. So the idea really was not original with me and think of the word kindergarten a garden for children a master gardener herself Professor blast teaches teachers how to work gardening into the curriculum. It's a logical place for science lessons and to take it a step further Plas likes to also emphasize the connection with social science and literacy development stories folklore and children's literature.

Today we're talking about providing authentic experiences and authentic assessments. The gardening. Does provide. Had. A setting in which children and engage in authentic real experiences interacting with peers with adults reaching out to the community. Glass encourages parents and grandparents who like gardening to turn their hobby into a family learning adventure for the university beat. I'm Sondra happy this week on the university beat we discover an often overlooked teaching tool

that's taking root in area schools. All young children love to dig in the dirt. Play with the worms are fascinated by the will be crawling. And excited when the thieves begin to break the ground and they see the plants grow. Join us as we cultivate imaginations and ideas on the university. This is the university beat Santagati. It's something we know inherently but learned the hard way. Stress affects memory. Think of the last time you took a test. The kind with the pressure is on a grade a licens

your future is on the line. The tension builds you can't remember what you study just last night. And therein lies the problem says USF psychology professor David Diamond. The facts figures and formulas we memorized eight hours before went to the hippocampus part of the brain and stress directly effects the hippocampal memory. It tends to be newer memory. A short term memory or something you learn how to close it to study. So what it's suggesting is cramming isn't a good idea to prove it. He took breaths and taught them a maze. Then put them in a room with a cat. The feline couldn't actually harm the rats but the fear of the cat caused the rats to forget how to get out of the maze. When you're searching around for your cues and you can't remember where they are you are activating or trying to activate your hippocampus. Dr. Diamond is currently researching the impact extreme stress and trauma have on memory.

There are inaccuracies that occur with high stress. Typically people don't remember very well the information they learned during trauma. So even though people will say they remember it very well. Turns out they were actually very inaccurate. Take for example eyewitness accounts of crime scenes or accidents. This explains how two credible witnesses can have radically different stories. For the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey. This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey. Well many university students are

caught in the paper chase just trying to get their own studies done. A group at USF is volunteering to help others learn every Monday evening USF Big Brothers and Big Sisters meet in a small room in the campus activity center for a couple of hours they tutor area youngsters through the program. On this particular night we're tackling a spectrum of subjects. Last night it was from my. Home Monday next Monday even algebra or C is algebraically. Property Precious is a freshman in high school. She's discovered college students are great tutors. None of the U.S. students I met planned to be teachers. All of them are doing this because they care about us. I just enjoy doing this I've been tutoring for some time. Morny tutors every week and is an officer in the club. So I just thought it would be neat to keep doing it as chapter president Tracy says

the remuneration is substantial. Just there are these kids. Thanks for helping me. They come back with something like that. As a graduate student speaks for all the tutors and saying he enjoys the work. But there's one major challenge. For the university beat. This is the university beat.

Every year we say this is the holiday I'll enjoy the real meaning of the season and not get suffocated by crass commercialism or swept away by activity and busy. But still in the midst of the joy of giving. Has the burden of buying. Finding the perfect present that says he's special or she's appreciated nothing in a blister pack or in a preprinted red and green box that says especially for you. Will do. I found a lot of help right on campus and then swing back to the USA golf course pro-shop offers lessons. They have gift certificates and are open to the public. Whole families are now even golfing together. USF is committed to making educational opportunities available for anyone in the Bay Area. The division of lifelong learning offers classes in music health personal finance the arts and of course computers. With tickets to the university's concerts and the theater are appreciated by

almost everyone especially if you go along. Friends and relatives who are already gifted those who have everything may also appreciate your making a contribution in their name. You could even sponsor a day of broadcasting in their honor or contribute to a scholarship fund in their field. This year you'll also give yourself a gift by creating memories or making a significant improvement in someone's life for the university. This is the university beat.

The image of a hurting child the play dated the picture I mean you can imagine a picture of you know having this picture come with me. It was really a challenge to me to see if somebody was interested enough to take part the photograph is that of three year old Maria Cortez. A precious child with an alarming problem a cyst the size and shape of an orange has grown right between her eyes. David a second year med student met Maria and her mother in August when he was assisting in a remote clinic in El Salvador. Paula Maria's mother walked on ahead of the clinic knowing that American physicians were going to be there. I think Paula and Maria waited for a little over seven hours to see a physician. The unfortunate thing was that when we saw our we didn't have any resources for mother and daughter when home without hope and David returned to Florida with a burden for the little girl. And that's when he met Dr. Nesco Ross is certain that all children's hospital in St.

Petersburg. He readily offered to do the surgery here at no charge. One world one heart a medical mission back to El Salvador grew from there. This week five U.S. F med students are celebrating the holidays as clinic volunteers. They'll return with Maria and her mother and with vital first hand medical experience. Connie St. Clair is one of the students on the mission. We really appreciate all the support and all the encouragement and we hope to play this again in the future. Students in the colleges of nursing and public health are already interested for the university beat. I'm Sondra Guffey. If.

This is the university beat her Kathy. You're right you're right it looks and sounds like an ordinary high school class and basically it is but this keyboarding class like Clearwater high school has a mission beyond teaching how to type. The students are part of the program for international culture and commerce. It makes good sense to me and Stuart is one of the teachers. I feel like we're on target that we're providing a practical education for the students. I think that they understand why they are supposed to take certain courses now and that all of it combined prepares them for a job.

It's a privilege for the students who participate and extra work for the teachers who take this on out of their concern for the students futures. So it was important to me for us to talk to community leaders and see if what we were teaching here at Clearwater high school was in sync with what the job market needed. So we called together a group of business people and they say from USF came over and joined us. Dr Dick put Lisi is the director of the stabber Center at the University of South Florida. The center promotes the integration of free enterprise and economic education in grades K through 12. All of our energies all of our resources are devoted to making sure that that teacher is prepared in what he or she walks in the classroom to do the kind of job that needs to be done to get those students ready for the university beat. This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey in the spectrum of American city's

St. Petersburg is a relative youngster named in 1888 it entered its boom time in the early 1900s. Mr. Ap a Fogarty lived in one of the prime houses at the time or the Booker. The 95 year old Bodhi grew up in the house built by one of the city's leading developers. Perry Snell the snow house and the home built by the father of the city John Williams now sit on the campus of us at St. Petersburg and they're both historic landmarks. The university moved the house to campus in order to save them from the wrecking ball. They now House offices for faculty and staff and through mid-February the homes are part of the 1998 American Society of interior designers jewels on the bay showcase designers architects and contractors donated thousands of hours and materials to transform the homes floor to ceiling. Well the main thing was just to be mindful of the error that the house came

from and to remain true to that USF alumna Linda Wimmer says one of the first designers on the project. All of my work I think reflects a certain warmth. And that's the main thing that I would want them to feel when they walk in and I would hope that they would have a curiosity about the lives of the people who lived in the house. Proceeds from the showcase home tours will benefit the Boys and Girls Club of the Suncoast or the university beat. The big dog the Beauford law before the bomb bomb.

Bomb. Bomb eat the beat both who. Eat Dog eat with. This is the university beat I'm Sondra Guffey. It's the plight of urban centers everywhere. The decline of their neighborhoods at us

upscale Florida Center for Community design and research it's more than just an academic study. Their mission is simple assist the citizens of Florida in the creation of more livable and sustainable communities. John Marsh is the director. Ideally we try to start with the Chris roots of community instead of just going through local government code. Such is the case for the recently completed study of the neighborhood surrounding the university. The area has just been allowed to develop really with very little controls for the last 30 years and the land use pattern is pretty haphazard. The residents took disposable cameras and photographed what they liked and disliked about their community heading the list of what they did not like. Too much garbage and not enough sidewalks. Researcher Ana Garcia was surprised by what they do like quite a few pictures of people which I thought was very interesting because from there were the actual physical being from the people.

And it's the people who will help fulfill the mission and bring about the 20 million dollars of improvements over the next nine years. If government funding is approved for the university. This is the university beat for Gabby.

One of Tampa's favorite traditions is the first night New Year's Eve event. This year's celebration also marked a milestone for a group of young people exploiting different parts of a large though we never knew like music and dancing on every part of art drawing painting. And some of the music we're hearing comes from the instruments they made in their boys and girls clubs. These children are part of the afterschool program run by America or arts USF. Marian Winters is the Director of people who work in the arts and have a background in the arts are better students. At school they learn a lot of problem solving skills teamwork how to be flexible thinkers and be innovative in working on projects and those are the kinds of skills that you need to be successful in life later on. America or arts USF is affiliated with the National Service President Clinton initiated and it helps to children have a sense of worth and a sense of value.

And it's pretty much immediate gratification because they can see their work developing the USF fine arts students involved make a commitment to spend at least 900 hours with the program. Or the university beat. This is the university beat on Sondra guppies.

I admit sometimes when I see a homeless person asking for money I divert my eyes walk the other way or avoid contact altogether. But USF business Major Christopher Gregg had a different response one day he stopped to talk with a middle aged homeless man in Ebor. He asked the questions we all want to know what's wrong with the system to end up in such straits he said that there are programs out there for emergency shelters and food. Yet there was no place to get the education. Along with working and residents to where they can have a mailing address and receive information from the government and other entities. So Greg started a search for answers. Surely there must be a program a center or an outreach that's effective. We could not find any other program to benchmark off of so we went ahead and started from scratch. Greg has called on all of his business ACCU men and contacts both local and national to help launch e s enterprises E S stands for employ

educate shelter the target is the physically and psychologically sound people who happen to be homeless. This compassionate young entrepreneur has already drawn up plans but still needs a location. Yes commitments from various companies and the USAF colleges for help. The MBA candidates will develop the business plan while they're looking for a product. The enterprise can manufacture or a service they can provide for the university beat guppy. The thug. The bag the bag the boy. From the

bomb eat the bag. If. This is the university beat on saga. We believe that young people are at risk.

USF graduate Teresa Ellis turned her commitment to kids and community from concept to creation. She founded community partners with youth in St. Petersburg two years ago and now tells local audiences what makes the program work. Dignity. And we're back and we're not about fixing it. Each week about 35 middle school kids many abandoned by the system and adult volunteers meet in space provided by USF St. Petersburg. They hit the heavy subjects head on. But a lot of what we're doing you know love first. Leader Mitch Akins directs conversation about emotional issues and the adult volunteers like St. Pete musician Johnny White say they meet on fair ground to share with to hear the rectum know that I have experienced the same thing what they're going through through to it this age group that they had 13 to 16. Tommy Sue a Palm Harbor physician says he gains as much as the young people.

And I realize that I'm still struggling every day with trying to find ways to. Find. A sense of peace and happiness in my life. Community Partners is a grassroots organization run by volunteers and funded by local contributions for the university. Thug. The bag the Beauford lib. The bomb. The bomb. Eat the beat

both who. Eat. This is the university beat Guffey. The top floor of the cooper building on the US Ep. campus looks like a segment of the United Nations. But ask any of the 139 students they'll tell you this is survival class. Here are men foreign students

come here to learn English well enough to enroll in an American university. Dr. Jeffrey flights is the director of the English Language Institute. The demand is incredible it's one of the greatest periods of needs for English as a Second Language in the history of the country. For 20 years the institute has been training the teachers and provided a research lab for students in Applied Linguistics. Their work not only reaches around the world it also reaches around the city so that we can serve those populations who are really in need of English language instruction whose lives would be changed tremendously if they had it and don't think it's just immigrants and students who need English businesspeople healthcare professionals and even athletes want to learn the institute's Barbara Smith is working on an English for aviators course so they can learn all the technical vocabulary that they need to fly the plane but they can't express just other simple problems or there's a fire in the cabin. Many local companies are bringing their international divisions here for English instruction. And now that there's a hotel on campus they expect a man for these

short term programs to increase for the university beat. Will. The Form. Mom. Form. Feel. For you. This is the university beat Santagati.

It's the last hypothesis I'd expect to hear a sports columnist tackle his lecture this evening is entitled Why sports doesn't matter anymore. New York Times sports writer Robert Lipsyte is one of a dozen guest speakers at the USS St. Petersburg public lecture series. They're all taking a swing at sports and American culture. Peter Goldbach is here tonight as a member of the audience. He writes books about sports history. Now he's looking forward to the future. Major League Baseball is going to bring sports excitement to this area that we have never ever ever seen before. And it's going to make a huge huge difference in the U.S. this area in so many many ways economically psychically emotionally. It's just going to make a huge difference. Baseball is inspiring growth in the Bay Area and conversation at this lecture. It's not just what you can see it's what bringing a feeling. To the city of St. Petersburg that something is special and terrific is really

going to happen here and yet Lipsyte still argue sports doesn't matter anymore. And by matter. I mean that sports no longer has any moral value in America. It is purely a vehicle to selling products through entertainment. USA offers an intellectual approach to today's issues for the university beat. With. If.

This is the university beat I'm Sondra happy. While many childhood illnesses are in decline asthma rates are rising nearly five million children in the United States suffer from asthma. Michelle greter is one of them. When I was little I used to say it felt like somebody was when you squeeze toilet paper that's what it felt like inside my chest. Michelle is fortunate to have a supportive family a concerned doctor who have helped her through this. Other children are now benefiting from the open Airways program put on by the U.S. College of Nursing and the American Lung Association. Specially trained nursing students teach the course and several Hillsboro elementary schools. These are the schools that have the higher numbers of low income minority children

that are most affected by asthma according to nursing professor Dr. Phyllis Paige many of these children don't get the support at home that they need to manage their asthma and Hispanic and African-American children are disproportionately affected by the illness. And they also have less access to health services. And that's a key to if they're not getting health management and getting the information about you know how they can manage and prevent attacks then these are the children that end up going to the emergency rooms and it's a high cost and they're missing more school days because they're not well managed so a little classroom time now is helping students and teachers breathe a little easier in the future for the university beat. The thug. Didn't.

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Our search for the fountain of youth doesn't have to go farther than the local drug store but which pills potions or prescriptions will actually help to faculty members of the U.S. AF College of Medicine are leaders in the research of anti-aging benefits drugs and hormone therapies. Dr. Berry Bercu is a pediatrician who has conducted extensive studies on growth hormones and also on part of the baby boomer population. And there's a sort of interest in the lay public in general physicians about how to use these these drugs. Their goal to improve the quality of life as a result of this public interest we get information not from the classical route of having a clinical trial but from anecdotal information. Dr. Richard Walker is the director of the U.S. AF division of pharmaceutical studies. Next week scientists from around the world join doctors Bercu and Walker in Tampa for a professional symposium that includes an educational forum for the public.

When I think about some of the ideas that have come over the years to me as a practicing pediatric endocrinologist uneconomical I came from parents asking probing questions next Wednesday's forum gives us a chance to find some answers which of these things which are good for me. What should they be taken in. What time of day should they be taken for the university beat. The thug. The bag the boy. The boy. From. The back

seat the bag. This is the university beat Sondra guppy. Textbook history lessons tell the dates and the facts but people tell the stories. USF St. Petersburg along with the Florida Humanities Council sponsored St. Pete's first community history fair.

The February event drew hundreds of all ages. They were there to learn to be entertained and even do a little networking. Sonny Reed has just started her own business reads African-American books is just accomplishing the facts getting back to the basics of Knowledge really is another small business owner whose beads jewelry and hand painted fabric attracted a lot of interest when they buy my work they buy part of me. And when I do any type of. Artistic work I do it from a spiritual approach. But these folks were here for more than just a shopping experience. It was truly a celebration of culture and a tribute to heritage. Abbassi OTI is a musician who not only performs music but also makes his own instruments such as this didgeridoo made from a jacaranda branch. His philosophy make the most out of what you have to give you what you need.

That is the ability to make two out of one. That is a very ancient way of thinking you know is called resourceful thinking in a western world USF professors Jason and Ray Arsenault unveiled their St. Petersburg oral history project that is now available on tape and CD-ROM for the university. I'm Sandra guppy. This is the university beat I'm Santagati.

The Forgotten Hero in the story of the Titanic is a character named album. Calvin is a remote controlled submersible. Researchers used to explore in areas where larger vessels and people can't go. The biggest challenge we had natural was to find the ship in a very short period of time. We had much this National Geographic film shows Alvan at work. It's part of the Titanic exhibit at the pier aquarium in St. Petersburg. The University of South Florida provides continuous support through the Department of Marine Science aquarium director Catherine King put this special exhibit together with the help of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. We wanted to come at it from the standpoint of what we're all about which is oceanography and ocean exploration. So what better way to do that than to talk to the people that actually discover Titanic visitors see and even experience the lives of ocean explorers. So this is where all the people have to feel. Like the earth. And there was actually a little. It includes a replica of the submersible

scientists use so many times I think people think science is sort of a mystery and it's actually done by real people who are eager to talk about what they're doing and share it with other people most especially young people. The peer aquarium is staffed in part by USA students like Joe Torana who helps children get excited about marine science. It's a good environment in which to bring kids up here to just look around and check it out. Bringing marine science to life on land for the university beat. If.

This is the university beat on Sandra Jaffe. 40 people living together dedicated to serving others. Sounds more like a convent than a college dorm. But inside US s leadership House is nothing like a convent. The students are a cross-section of the university. Various ethnic backgrounds majors ages and outside interests. What brings them together is a commitment to community service and leadership. People that are wanting to develop and grow feel themselves as a person. John Warner is an engineering student who led the House's most recent community service project building a home through Habitat for Humanity in Tampa. Freshman Abby green uncle says the house is an environment that fosters servant leadership skills. We all pretty much. Share like the same goals of making ourselves better with the

people around us and the community around us. They're dedicated to giving back to the community a quality they say is displayed in all great leaders their advisers graduate student Frank Hamilton a retired Army officer who's now studying leadership from an academic as well as a practical approach. You see the light bulbs come on and you see the. Thing can plan and realize things that maybe they didn't realize before hadn't thought of before. Hamilton's now thinking of his next goal to recruit a Bay Area business and community leaders as guest speakers at the house and even find a few CEOs who will serve as mentors for the university beat. I'm Sandra Kathy. The third leg. Or third leg. The ball.

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What are universities a long term economic effects in a community. How much revenue does a Super Bowl bring the Bay Area. What economic impact is the Tampa International Airport having on this region. When the chamber of commerce economic development center city council or a substantial corporation wants answers to crucial economic issues they often turn to USF Center for Economic Development Research. There are opportunities for them problems. Dr. Kenneth weekend is the center's director. The feeling that I had been here for 17 years is the last five years. I really have seen the areas of the take off in certain ways and then the feeling of community and an opportunity and and confidence. The center's research is academically based and unbiased. We're not in the business of trying to justify decisions that people already made. We really are those in the business of trying to help them make rational logical decisions.

Businesses and local governments often don't have the resources to do this research on their own. One of things we want to do is to try to find those sources and make them available in usable form for the people who are out there actually trying to attract businesses to the area or solving the water problems or all of those things that people have to do when you're looking at a successful weekend is also preparing the center to serve as a resource in the development of the I-4 corridor. As you may remember USAF and the University of Central Florida have a strategy to attract high tech companies to this region for the university beat. I'm Sandra Jaffe.