USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences

September 15 - 21, 2019

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Tuesday, 09/17
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Thursday, 09/19
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Three Selected as USF I-Corps Fellows

Dr. Kristin Kosyluk, Dr. Kyaien Conner, and Ms. B. Michelle Beekman of MHLP have been selected as members of the Fall 2019 cohort of USF I-Corps Fellows. The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program provides university faculty with entrepreneurial skills alongside resources to investigate and validate the commercialization of their science. The team from MHLP will work with Ms. Jennifer Marshall, co-founder of This Is My Brave, a theater-based program that invites people with lived experience with mental illness to come forward to share their story via creative expression live, on stage, for diverse audiences. Kosyluk and Marshall have been collaborating for over four years to demonstrate the efficacy of TIMB to reduce stigma and improve attitudes towards mental health and increase the belief that those with mental illness are capable of recovery. Kosyluk, Conner, and Marshall will investigate the translation of this program into short, targeted videos that can be marketed to primary care and hospital waiting room videos to encourage conversations about mental health with healthcare providers.

"We hope to learn how to frame our work so that it is marketable as a commercial product to the primary care industry," says Kosyluk.

London Study Abroad

-- written by Henry Trent

This summer, USF students had the opportunity to take behavioral health classes at the University College London in London, England. Drs. Paul Stiles and Kyaien Conner, both of MHLP, taught courses for USF students while in London with curriculum tailored to the study abroad experience. Students and professors lived on the University College London campus in the heart of London.

"We do our best to spend as little time in the classroom as possible," said Conner, who chose excursions in place of traditional class meetings whenever possible. Connor and Stiles' students enjoyed trips to places like the Freud Museum, a production of Mousetrap, and Brixton Prison, all of which were tied into the subject matter of their courses.

"This program taught me more than I could imagine. I finally learned a sense of direction from taking the tube everywhere and walking anywhere I needed to go," said Hannah Pastore, a student on the trip. "I learned what it was like to be independent and that I could survive and thrive away from my home and family."

CSD Colloquium Series

Jean Krause, PhD, OTC, CICS, will present "Factors affecting accuracy and intelligibility of transliterators" on Friday, September 20, 2019 from 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in PCD1147. Dr. Krause holds a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At MIT, her research focused on speech perception and the acoustic properties of clear speech, and she co-invented an "Automatic cueing of speech" system (US Patent # 6,317,716). Since arriving at the University of South Florida in 2003, she has developed a number of instruments for evaluating expressive Cued Speech skills, including a Cued Speech version of the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment. Her current research is concerned with the visual perception of signed and cued communication, as well as the auditory perception of speech by normal hearing listeners and listeners with hearing loss.

Effective Fall 2019, Midterm Grades Due Week 7-8 of Semester

In Spring 2019 the midterm grade policy changed to make midterm grades due week 7-8 in an effort to facilitate performance toward our student success initiatives. The Office of the Registrar's calendar was recently updated to reflect the new dates in accordance with the new policy. For the Fall 2019, midterm grading opens on October 7 and closes on October 18. The new dates should be reflected in Fall 2019 course syllabi. Click here for the Registrar's calendar.

CBCS In the News

The opioid epidemic: Hillsborough County, USF thought leaders look for solutions
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The opioid epidemic is a complex problem and the solution has to be as comprehensive and complex as the problem is," says Dr. Khary Rigg, Assistant Professor in the USF Department of Mental Health and Law Policy, ...

 

Major decline in poverty rate for Central Florida children, report shows
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The findings come from the Florida Kids Count 2019 Child Well-being Index, produced by researchers at the University of South Florida, based on 16 ...

 

Polk ranks in Florida's bottom 20% in kids well-being
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a project of Florida Kids Count, an agency based in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida.

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