Theatre UCF wins at Kennedy Center regional competition
February 24, 2017 Theatre UCF students gathered a number of awards at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival at Georgia Southern University. BFA Design and Technology student Jack Audet won the Regional National Sound Design Award and will be head to the national competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C....
UCF Celebrates the Arts to Return April 7-14 for 3rd Season
February 24, 2017 UCF Celebrates the Arts – the university’s annual showcase of student and faculty presentations – will return April 7-14 to the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando. The eight days of music, performances and visual displays, which are open to the public for free, will feature...
UCF Celebrates the Arts to Return April 7-14 for 3rd Season
February 24, 2017 UCF Celebrates the Arts – the university’s annual showcase of student and faculty presentations – will return April 7-14 to the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando. The eight days of music, performances and visual displays, which are open to the public for free, will feature...
UCF Student Wins at Orlando ADDYs
February 24, 2017 José Manuel Llanos won a student award for his package design project at the 2017 Orlando Addy Awards. His Golden Age Beer design took the Silver Addy in the category of Stationary Package – Single or Multiple Pieces. José is an undergraduate student in UCF’s School of Visual Arts and...
Art History Student Wins Barbato Fellowship
February 24, 2017 Art history student Gaby van Ravenswaay has been awarded the Barbato Fellowship for Graduate Study at Case Western University One of the largest awards given at the university, the fellowship covers tuition and includes a stipend. Gaby will continue the work she started at UCF on Northern Baroque art with...
Zemliansky Wins Award for Collection of Essays
February 24, 2017 Pavel Zemliansky, a professor in the UCF College of Arts and Humanities Department of Writing and Rhetoric, has been honored with a 2017 Conference on College Composition and Communication Technical and Scientific Communication Award for his collection of essays, Rethinking Post-Communist Rhetoric: Perspectives on Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication in...
WGST Faculty Affiliate Malaret wins SL award
February 15, 2017 The Women’s and Gender Studies program congratulates Dr. Stacey Malaret, Director of the LEAD Academy as the 2017 recipient of the Service Learning Excellence award. Dr. Malaret incorporates Service Learning at the heart of the LEAD Academy. We are very proud of you and celebrate your commitment to our students.
Robert Rivers Featured in Artborne Magazine
February 10, 2017 Robert Rivers, professor of art at the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design, is featured in Artborne Magazine . The article includes an interview with Rivers in his home and studio, and expounds upon his life experiences in accordance with his art. Robert Rivers has taught art at UCF...
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz to premiere live performance portrait at Knowles Chapel
February 10, 2017 Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, assistant professor in the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design, will create a live performance portrait at Knowles Chapel in Winter Park on Tuesday, March 21 at 6 p.m. The piece, inspired by Michelangelo’s Pietà will feature Raimundi-Ortiz sitting and cradling 33 young people of color, the...
Ballet Performance of Don Qixote to benefit Ukrainian Down Syndrome Organization
February 10, 2017 The Russian club at UCF will host a performance of Don Qixote in partnership with the Russian Ballet of Orlando. The event will benefit the Ukrainian Down Syndrome Organization. The event will take place on February 26, 2017 in the Pegasus Ballroom of UCF’s Student Union at 5:00 p.m. Also...
Knights Write Showcase: A Spotlight on the Exceptional Work of First-Year Writers
February 09, 2017 The Department of Writing and Rhetoric hosted the 7th annual Knights Wright Showcase on February 1, 2017. This showcase is an opportunity for students from the first-year writing program to exhibit their hard work and dedication in refining their composition and research skills. The event was open to the community,...
Romeo and Juliet gets a Jazz Age treatment
February 09, 2017 Theatre UCF’s production of Romeo and Juliet will open on Thursday, February 16 and run through Sunday, February 26. The Shakespeare classic will be set in the 1930’s, and tell the tale of star-crossed lovers whose families clash in their fight to achieve the American Dream. The prohibition-era setting depicts...
UCF Club provides opportunities to use foreign language skills in the community
February 09, 2017 The UCF-Hillcrest Modern Language Club, established in spring 2015, provides UCF and Hillcrest Elementary School students the opportunity to use their Spanish and French skills in a collaborative environment. This partnership connects UCF students with the greater Orlando community. Hillcrest Elementary School, which is part of the Orange County Public...
Kourova wins third STARTALK grant for Russian language program
February 09, 2017 Alla Kourova has been awarded a STARTALK grant for the third year in a row. Kourova’s proposal, “Preparation of a Business Trip to Russia,” has been selected for funding as part of the STARTALK 2017 program. Kourova is an assistant professor of Russian. STARTALK offers students (K–16) and teachers of...
UCF Represents at Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford
February 07, 2017 Educational workshops for aspiring and veteran filmmakers and an exhibition of 14 student films will be sponsored by UCF’s College of Arts & Humanities as part of the seventh annual Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford on Feb. 9-12. This is the third year of the university and festival’s...
Dr. Olivia Sohns Recent Publication
February 06, 2017 UCF History Department’s Dr. Olivia Sohns was recently published in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Dr. Sohns reviewed a new release by Asaf Siniver called Abba Eban: A Biography. “Abba Eban: A Biography by Asaf Siniver (Review)” published by Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (Volume 35,...
UCF School of Performing Arts Student, Alumni and Staff Engaged in Upcoming Cabaret Performance
February 06, 2017 On February 11, 2017, The Orlando Gay Chorus is presenting Love Is…A Fairy Tale, an evening of cabaret performances featuring several UCF staff, alumni and a current student. “I realized as I was putting the show together how many people were part of the UCF School of Performing Arts now...
UCF students to present musical for youth about hunger
February 06, 2017 Orlando, Fla. – On Friday, February 24, Theatre UCF will present the musical Puddin’ and the Grumble, a coming-of-age tale that follows Puddin’, a young girl struggling with starting over at a new school, living with her eccentric, avid singer and yogi of a grandma, and most of all, overcoming...
Students Present Academic Posters at ZORA Festival
February 03, 2017 UCF History M.A. students are encouraged to sharpen their presentation skills and share their work-in-progress through academic poster sessions. Last week a team of five presented at the #ZORAFestival28 Communities Conference. They and others will compete for awards in the upcoming 2017 UCF Graduate Research Forum: http://www.students.graduate.ucf.edu/research_forum/. Click here for...
Rupert & Drexler’s new release climbs jazz album charts
January 31, 2017 The latest album from UCF’s esteemed jazz faculty has been well received following its release on January 6. Imagination, a live duo recording from Rupert & Drexler, debuted at #16 during its first week on the CMJ chart, made the Top 50 on the Roots Music Report, and landed on...