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Two Festivals on October 27th

Two Festivals...

MarineQuest 2012, the annual open by FWRI, has been joined by the 2nd Annual St. Petersburg Science Festival, which celebrates the wonders of STEM. Both of the festivals are free and will take place along the Bayboro Waterfront of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus.

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New Center for Molecular and Life Sciences

New Center...

Eckerd College is currently under construction with a new $25 million, 55,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility which will house Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry programs, as well as new academic initiatives that explore developments at the Chemistry-Biology Interface.

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Tweeting Undersea Robot

Tweeting Undersea...

@Tavros02 made quite a splash as the newest team member of the College of Marine Science at USF. The underwater robot can independently analyze and report back, via Twitter, what its learning about the Gulf and Tampa Bay.

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St. Petersburg's Bayboro Harbor Scientific Research District is the largest marine research community in the Southeastern United States.

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