USF Magazine Spring 2012

Volume 54 | Number 1

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Grand Challenge

| USF News

It may be one of the most basic components of human life, but for nearly 900 million people around the world, clean water remains out of reach. And leaders at the USF Patel School of Global Sustainability are working to change that.

In November, the school announced the first Patel Grand Challenge, a challenge to inventors in developing nations to create a low-cost and easy-to-use water purification device that could save millions from the perils of contaminated drinking water.

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Visiting Dignitaries

| USF News

Amid the excitement of the GOP debate coming to campus, 50 top USF students got the opportunity to meet with Sir Peter Westmacott, Britain's top diplomat in the United States.

It was the recently-appointed ambassador's first visit to an American university campus.

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