UCF Theatre Student “Best Performer in the World”
December 01, 2010 Rebecca Galarza, a junior and Musical Theatre major at the University of Central Florida, was recently chosen as the Best Female Performer in the World by the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions during its Brass Ring Awards. The IAAPA Brass Ring conference and award ceremony, held Nov. 17...
Flute Students Perform Well in Recent Competitions
November 30, 2010 Adriane Hill won the concerto competition 2010 Sophomore Stephanie Hoeckley – Finalist Florida Young Artist Junior Kate Nichols Alternate Florida Young Artist Sophomore
Knights Write: UCF to Showcase New Department
November 29, 2010 The inaugural Knights Write Showcase on Wednesday, Dec. 1, will feature exemplary work that first-year students have produced with support from UCF’s new Department of Writing and Rhetoric. The showcase, which is open to the public, will be from noon to 5 p.m. in the Pegasus Ballroom of the Student...
Flying Horse Editions featured in Orlando Weekley
November 23, 2010 Across the street from the old Amway Center downtown, tucked inside an institutional-looking brick building, an unobtrusive printing operation with a big reputation is quietly turning out some unique items. Flying Horse Editions, a 20-year-old nonprofit that publishes limited-edition art objects and fine-art books, is located here in the University...
UCF Team Finishes Strong in Ethics Bowl
November 16, 2010 On Saturday November 13 at the Southeast Regional Ethics Bowl in St. Petersburg, our UCF ethics bowl team (Alexander Kaplan, senior, Philosophy; Jessica Fears, junior, Economics; Stephen Oldham, junior, Philosophy and Political Science; Kevin Dupree, senior, Humanities; Ramon Lopez, senior, Political Science; and Catherine Perrault, senior, Molecular Biology) participated in...
John Almeida to present at 64th annual "Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic"
November 04, 2010 John Almeida has been invited to present a clinic at the 64th Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL. The event will take place Dec. 15–18, 2010. Mr. Almeida’s clinic is entitled “Sound Ideas on Playing the Trumpet” and will be presented on Friday morning Dec. 17. The clinic...
Gallagher to Present at the Free University in Berlin
November 04, 2010 A conference, “The Socially Extended Mind,” focusing on Philosophy Professor Shaun Gallagher’s research on embodied social cognition and its relation to critical theory is scheduled to take place at the Free University in Berlin on March 21-22, 2011, sponsored by the Working Group on Languages of Emotion in Philosophy of...
Gallagher Speaks at New York Academy of Sciences
November 04, 2010 Shaun Gallagher will be participating as an invited speaker in the New York Academy of Sciences meetings on the topic “Perspectives on the Self: Conversations on Identity and Consciousness” in April 2011. Gallagher is editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Self (to be published by OUP in early 2011).
Animated short "Mocha Latte" selected for international animation festival
November 03, 2010 “Mocha Latte”, a 3-D computer animated short created by six students in the Art – Emerging Media B.F.A. program, has been juried into the 2010 Red Stick International Animation Festival. Joseph Barbour, Christina Fowinkle, Janae’ Fox, Nadia Jarquin, Donald Marks, and Nicole Walsh produced the short in just four months...
Rebecca Galarza Selected as Finalist for IAAPA Brass Ring Awards
November 01, 2010 Congratulations to Rebecca Galarza for becoming a finalist for the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Brass Ring Awards – Best Female Performer of the Year! The IAAPA Membership is composed of every Amusement Park, Waterpark, zoo, or public attraction in the world. Brass Ring Awards deliver recognition to...
MFA students display ‘Transformations’ in Gallery 500
October 27, 2010 Five MFA art students will be exhibiting their multimedia work at Gallery 500 in UCF’s Center for Emerging Media next month. The new works were created by Heather Comparetto, Corey Robertson, Sherri Nienass, Jeffrey Hoffman and Nanette Cherry — all pursuing MFA degrees in Studio Art & the Computer in...
Martha García Speaker at University of Cambridge, England
October 26, 2010 Martha García was awarded an Ambassadorship & Speaker at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, England, 2010. Her research presentation Devotio Moderna: Theological Dialogues Within Celestina and Don Quixote de La Mancha is based on her third book manuscript. Her most recently published article “El hijo pródigo en El condenado...
E. Brady Robinson featured in Washington, D.C.
October 26, 2010 New work from E. Brady Robinson appears in Remote, a group photography exhibition at Civilian Art Projects in Washington, D.C. The opening reception is Friday, October 29 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Potter joins Orlando Philharmonic for "Home for the Holidays"
October 25, 2010 UCF Opera Director and baritone Thomas Potter will perform as soloist with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra for its “Home for the Holidays” concert—two performances at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center on Saturday, November 27. Highlights will include “O Holy Night”, “Panis Angelicus”, and “White Christmas”. For more information, please...
Flying Horse Editions Mentioned on Daily Serving
October 12, 2010 Flying Horse Editions was mentioned in an article on Daily Serving.
Jeff Rupert at the Kennedy Center
October 07, 2010 Jeff Rupert performs at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on October 30 with singer Kevin Mahogany. Mahogany will sing one of Rupert’s compositions from his latest album, From Memphis to Mobile. Rupert will provide saxophone accompaniment during the performance. With his gift for bebop, ballads, blues, and swinging jazz,...
Art grads ‘Face Off’ in NYC art exhibit
October 05, 2010 UCF alumni Kristofer Porter and Christopher Davison face off with more than 100 individual drawings in their “Tall Tales” exhibit, featured at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York City through Nov. 13. Read the complete article from UCF Today.
UCF Choir Breathes Life Into Mahler's Masterpiece
September 28, 2010 On Saturday, September 25 at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, 113 students in the UCF Choir sang one of the most challenging and beloved symphonies ever composed. Throughout September, the students prepared for the Orlando Philharmonic’s opening night concert. They performed Gustav Mahler’s symphony No. 2, “Resurrection,” alongside the...
Increasing Student Success: Smaller Classes, Innovative Pedagogy at UCF
September 20, 2010 The June/July 2010 issue of AAC&U News includes a feature article about recent undergraduate curriculum innovations at UCF, including the redesign of first-year composition classes. The article contains commentary from Elizabeth Wardle. AAC&U News is published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Read the complete article.
Writing & Rhetoric Department goal: help all students graduate
September 20, 2010 Will students one day improve their writing skills by taking an engineering class? That’s one of the goals of an innovative series of changes in how UCF teaches writing. UCF’s new Department of Writing and Rhetoric will serve as a flagship program to coordinate comprehensive writing instruction and support across...