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桃瘾社区ampa President Trains with ROTC
WFLA
Jan. 29, 2025
President Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg took part in ROTC personal training workouts. Dahlberg completed battalion runs and the 鈥淪partan Circuit,鈥 which includes deadlifts, kettle bell swings, push-ups and a buddy team sled drag.
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Breanne Williams
Jan. 28, 2025
Larry Marfise, 桃瘾社区ampa鈥檚 athletic director for the last 26 years, has announced his retirement, effective in November. 鈥淚 cannot overstate the profound impact Larry has had on 桃瘾社区ampa鈥檚 co-curricular experience and on the hundreds of student-athletes who have competed on our fields and courts,鈥 said President Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg. His legacy at the University includes creating gender equity plans, increasing athletics fundraising, improving athletic facilities on campus, creating new teams for the university and leading the charge on ensuring Spartan athlete GPAs were at or above 桃瘾社区ampa鈥檚 overall student GPAs.
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Pam Huff
Jan. 27, 2025
President Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg was named to Tampa Bay Business Journal鈥檚 Power 100, which celebrates Tampa鈥檚 most influential business leaders who significantly impact the community. Former president Ronald Vaughn was previously named to the list, and is now labeled as a 鈥2024 Legend.鈥
The Hill
Vivekanand Jayakumar
Jan. 19, 2025
In this opinion piece, Associate Professor of Economics Vivekanand Jayakumar says that economists predicted the dollar to weaken in 2024, but that is rose sharply instead. Now, with President Trump sown in and planning to implement trade tariifs and restrictive immigration policies, both of which are likely to be inflationary, signal a further strengthening of the dollar.
Bankrate
Sarah Foster
Jan. 16, 2025
One of President Trump鈥檚 main campaign promises was to create a 鈥渦niversal baseline tariff,鈥 believing that it will bring jobs back to communities hurt by globalization and increase government revenue. But economists, including Associate Professor Michael Coon, say that tariffs aren鈥檛 a reliable tool for either of those objectives. 鈥淥ne of the few things that most economists unanimously agree on is trade is good,鈥 said Coon. 鈥淚f you implement a world that鈥檚 super protectionist by putting in a lot of tariffs, it鈥檚 going to raise prices on consumers and effectively make everybody poorer.鈥
Bay News 9
Jeff Butera
Jan. 5, 2025
Colter Ray, assistant professor of communication, has studied how people communicate with cancer patients for more than a decade. When talking to patients ages 18-39, two-thirds of the population had experienced a lack of support from a friend or loved one they expected to hear from. 鈥淭he most common thing is, 鈥業 don鈥檛 think what to say鈥 or 鈥業鈥檓 afraid I鈥檓 going to say the wrong thing.鈥欌 Ray said. While there are unhelpful things that people can say to a patient, the worst thing is nothing at all.
Religion News Service
Bob Smietana
Jan. 3, 2025
A recent academic paper drew on crime-tracking data on college campus and religious affiliation surveys to show that states with higher percentages of so-called 鈥渘ones鈥 鈥 people who claim no religious affiliation in surveys 鈥 have higher rates of sexual assault on campus as well as higher suicide rates overall.听Ryan Cragun, sociology professor at 桃瘾社区ampa, reviewed the paper and said that while it does show a correlation, the paper鈥檚 author fails to prove that disbelief causes those higher rates. Cragun also said the paper ignores other data, such as that showing that states with higher murder rates are correlated to higher per-capita populations of evangelicals. 鈥淚f I were to use his logic, then I should be able to argue that evangelicals are more likely to kill people,鈥 said Cragun.听
