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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Wesley Lowery To Speak At USF
The event on Feb. 15 is free and open to the public
Wesley Lowery, the Washington Post’s leading reporter on police shootings and the Black Lives Matter movement, will speak at the University of South Florida at 7:30 p. m. (doors open at 7 p. m.) on Thursday, Feb. 15 in the Marshall Student Center Oval Theater. Lowery is ex- pected to share his thoughts about race, diversity and ac- tivism as part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Frontier Forum Lecture Series.
Lowery is an on-air con- tributor for CNN and a Pulitzer Prize-winning na- tional correspondent who fre- quently covers topics surrounding justice and law enforcement.
His new book, the New York Times best seller “They Can’t Kill Us All,” garnered the 2016 Christopher Isher- wood Prize for Autobiograph- ical Prose by the Los Angeles Times for detailing life- changing experiences, such as being detained by police while covering the riots after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Having worked as a re- porter for the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe, Lowery has dedicated his life to re- porting news stories that strike at the heart of what he values as essential to keep in the political conversation. This work has earned him the title of Emerging Journalist of the Year by the National As-
WESLEY LOWERY ...To speak at USF
sociation of Black Journalists. Lowery’s coverage of police shootings while at the Wash- ington Post and the Boston Marathon bombings while at the Boston Globe helped him earn two Pulitzer Prizes
Presented by USF Phi Beta Kappa alumni faculty and sponsored by the USF College of Arts and Sciences and USF Office of the Provost, the Frontier Forum Lecture Series has hosted sev- eral notable speakers since 2010, including Neil de- Grasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, George Takei, Jane Goodall and Scott Freiman.
The Marshall Student Center at USF is located at 4103 USF Cedar Circle, Tampa, FL 33620. Visitor pay by space will be available in the Crescent Hill parking garage. For reasonable ac- commodations, email cv- goldstein@usf.edu.
The Home Depot Begins 2018 Retool Your School Grant Program For HBCUs
The Home Depot’s Cam- pus Improvement Program Will Award a total of $360,000 in Campus Im- provement Grants to Nine Deserving HBCUs.
Atlanta, GA, — The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, announced Monday that its 2018 Retool Your School Grant Program be- gins. Now, in its ninth year, the program awards accred- ited Historically Black Col- leges and Universities (HBCUs) grants to use to- ward creating sustainable renovations and additions to their campuses.
The Home Depot has awarded $1.8 million to HBCUs since the program launched in 2009.
Schools seeking to par- ticipate in the contest can enter in either of two ways.
A nomination process for HBCU faculty, staff, students and community supporters to nominate their HBCU to participate in the program via Twitter and/or Insta- gram using the school’s sponsor-provided hashtag, which can be found at www.retoolyourschool.com.
Accredited HBCUs with a minimum of 100 nomina- tions will then qualify to enter the voting period.
Schools may accept the nomination or opt-in to the program via the nomination application link found in the eBlast to each of the school’s President and Point of Con- tact. Within the nomination application, a school admin- istrator must provide pri- mary contact information and official school logo to be included on the website for voting.
Nominations must be
submitted between January 29, 2018 at 12 a. m. (mid- night) EST and February 22, 2018 at 11:59 p. m. EST, to enter the voting period.
Voting begins February 26, 2018 at 12 a. m. (mid- night) and ends April 15, 2018 at 11:59 P.M.
During the voting pe- riod, there are two ways to vote.
Votes can be cast an un- limited number of times on- line at www.retool- yourschool.com.
Use your school’s unique, designated hashtag to cast unlimited social votes through Twitter and Insta- gram (hashtags can be found at www.retoolyourschool.- com).
For more information on The Home Depot Retool Your School Grant Program, visit www.retoolyour- school.com.
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