When Kobe Phillips arrived at the USF Tampa campus as a first-year student three years ago, he went directly to the USF Botanical Gardens to become a beekeeper. Phillips' passion for pollinators earned him the title “Campus Bee Guy” among his Judy Genshaft Honors College classmates.
Through his involvement in revitalizing the USF Community Garden, Phillips developed the service-learning course, Rooted in Place, alongside Judy Genshaft Honors College faculty and now teaches as a peer educator about sustainability, beekeeping and urban ecology. He is also working on creating pollinator habitats using bio-receptive sculptures and he plans to attend graduate school to focus on further developing these designs.
12 сен 2024
