First published on July 13, 2015 in observance of the COPH’s 30th anniversary celebration. Founded in 1997 by a training grant supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Sunshine Education and Research Center at the USF College of Public Health stemmed from an industrial hygiene training […]
Each year, students in the USF College of Public Health (COPH) nominate faculty members for the COPH’s Excellence in Teaching Award. The award is given to one faculty member who, according to the college’s webpage, “has made major contributions to student development, as well as to the quality of education […]
Dr. Ira Richards, a USF College of Public Health (COPH) professor who specialized in toxicology, and Dr. Lillian Stark, a veteran of the Florida Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories, the 2005 COPH Florida Outstanding Woman in Public Health and a past adjunct assistant professor at the college, recently passed […]
USF College of Public Health (COPH) Professor Dr. Tom Bernard has been honored by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) with the William D. Wagner Award. The award, given annually since 2003, recognizes a person in the field of national and international worker health and safety who is […]
USF College of Public Health (COPH) alumnus Commander Lane Vause grew up in the suburbs of Boise, Idaho. His father was a first-generation college graduate and emphasized to Vause and his siblings that they had to either learn a trade, go to college or join the U.S. Service. “I did […]
The USF College of Public Health (COPH) has teamed with Purdue University and the University of Toledo to develop online training modules and research experiences for graduate students across the country studying industrial hygiene. The modules are being developed with the help of a nearly $250,000, 5-year National Institute of […]
It wasn’t until her last year of undergraduate work at the University of South Florida (USF) that Dr. Laura Riley even thought about a career in public health. “I took an intro to public health course during the last year of my undergraduate degree, which really introduced me to the […]
It was a toxicology class at the Inter American University in Puerto Rico that spurred USF College of Public Health (COPH) graduate Dr. Luis F. Pieretti’s interest in industrial hygiene. “At that time, I was thinking about pursuing a graduate degree, but I wasn’t sure in which field,” said Pieretti, […]