UCF Graduate Research Forum Winner
April 06, 2016 Congratulations to Texts & Technology student, Jennifer Miller, who won First Place in the Fine Arts & Humanities category at UCF’s 2016 Graduate Research Forum. In addition to a cash award, Jennifer is off to compete in at the State-level research forum to be held in Gainesville at the end...
T&T Student Jardaneh Successfully Defends Dissertation
March 31, 2016 Congratulations to T&T student Kevin Jardaneh for successfully defending his dissertation,Building a Foundation for Goal-Attainment and Problem-Solving in Interdisciplinary Studies: Reimagining Web-Based Core Curriculum Through a Classical Lens, on March 31. Pictured from left to right are Dr. Stephen Fiore (Institute for Simulation & Training), Dr. Bruce Janz (Chair), Kevin,...
T&T Students Miller & Dieterle lead terrific interactive workshop
March 31, 2016 T&T students Jennifer Roth Miller and Brandy Dieterle led a terrific interactive workshop, From Strategic Objectives to Digtial Tools: Using Social Media for Activism, at the Department of Writing & Rhetoric’s Annual Symposium. They are pictured here with DWR’s Jacob Stewart who helped lead the workshop. T&T faculty Dr. Angela...
JUST KNIGHTS helps students in cases of bias
March 30, 2016 The purpose of the Just Knights Response Team (JKRT) is to act as a clearinghouse for any bias-related incidents that may occur on UCF campuses. In this role, the JKRT will receive, monitor, refer, and, as necessary, coordinate university resources to these incidents that impact the university community. The team,...
Film Student Tyler Marino Produces Award-Winning Documentary Code 9
March 30, 2016 BFA film student Tyler Marino produced the award-winning documentary Code 9 that will be featured at the Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa, Florida. A groundbreaking Documentary Film, Code 9 explores the darker side of law enforcement as it tells the stories of police officers who are suffering the mental...
UCF Celebrates the Arts to Experience 'The Warped Side of the Universe'
March 29, 2016 An out-of-this-world collaboration of music, science and visual effects will fuse when the story creator and artists of the science fiction film Interstellar will present a star-studded event with UCF musicians April 9 at the UCF Celebrates the Arts festival. The multimedia performance, The Warped Side of the Universe, will...
Chiu Wins 2016 Performance Excellence Competition
March 29, 2016 Percussionist and music major Calvin Chiu won the 2016 Performance Excellence Competition. The contest is hosted annually by the UCF School of Performing Arts. You’ll be able to see him perform at the UCF Honors Convocation on Thursday, April 21.
UCF Creates Entertainment Management Degree with $5 Million Donation
March 29, 2016 The Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida has received a $5 million private donation to establish a Bachelor of Science degree in Entertainment Management starting Fall 2016. The donor wishes to remain anonymous. This four-year undergraduate program will focus on the managerial aspects of entertainment...
International Study Abroad Initiative
March 28, 2016 Dr. Fernando Rivera, Sociology and Dr. M. C. Santana, WGST were recipients of UCF’s 2016 International Affairs and Global Strategies In-House Faculty Study Abroad Grant. Their proposal “Global Family Trends & the Place of Women in the Family“explores the diversity of the world’s families by analyzing different family structures, processes,...
Student Documentary Nominated for College Emmy
March 28, 2016 A team of UCF students has been nominated for an Emmy for their documentary film about the challenges to academic freedom nearly 90 years ago at Florida State College for Women. The film, Filthy Dreamers, is about state lawmakers and religious activists who tried to ban certain textbooks and the...
Bertolt Brecht’s Dramatic Structure
March 25, 2016 For Bertolt Brecht, the dramatic structure underlying any situation reflects the structure of social forces at work in society. Since Brecht was a Marxist living in an industrial capitalist nation, he understood these social forces as competing classes (although he also dealt with historical struggles, such as “science versus church,”...
Orlando Science Center collaborates with SVAD students in parallel SOLO shows
March 24, 2016 SVAD’s new relationship with the Orlando Science Center hosts rotating exhibitions featuring student work that explores themes in science. On view is two parallel SOLO shows by BFA student Clayton Dunklin and MFA Grad Forest DeBlois. Both artists share similar intellectual and emotional responses to the complex contemporary dilemma of...
SVAD Film Lecturer Zachary Beckler’s Feature Film INTERIOR to Screen at Festivals around Florida
March 24, 2016 Continued success for Zachary Beckler as his award winning Horror Film INTERIOR screens at several Florida Film Festivals. Beckler’s film will be a contender for additional Awards at Gasparilla on April 1st at 10:50pm (In Competition), Silver Springs on April 8th at 11:00pm (In Competition: Best Florida Feature. Cash Prize:...
Dining with the Cyborgs: Cotto Successfully Defends Dissertation
March 22, 2016 Congratulations to T&T student Maggie Cotto for successfully defending her dissertation, Dining with the Cyborgs: Disembodied Consumption and the Rhetoric of Food Media in the Digital Age, on March 22. Maggie is pictured here with members of her Dissertation Committee (L to R): Dr. Barry Mauer, Dr. J. Blake Scott,...
Marie Léticée's Debut Novel Featured at 36th Annual Salon du Livre
March 17, 2016 UCF Modern Languages Professor Marie Léticée published her debut novel, Moun Lakou [Inna de Yard], this week in Paris, France. Léticée’s publisher, Ibis Rouge, spotlighted the novel by launching it at Salon du Livre, a massive book fair with exhibits by more than 1,000 publishers from around the world, heavy...
UCF Art Gallery to Host Symposium to Unite Orlando's Cultural Scene
March 15, 2016 As if working with a blank canvas, local artists and art organizations will gather at the UCF Art Gallery on March 16 to discuss ideas toward the goal of uniting and promoting the Orlando cultural scene to rival other artistic meccas. In the past couple of years there has been...
T&T Student Mitchell Successfully Defends Dissertation
March 14, 2016 Congratulations to T&T student Cynthia Mitchell for successfully defending her dissertation, ”Exploring Repurposing Across Contexts: How Adolescents’ New Literacies Practices Can Inform Understandings about Writing-Related Transfer.“ Cynthia’s dissertation explores how middle school students engage in new literacies practices and how they repurpose across contexts. With the use of screencast software...
Professor Emeritus Lotz Exhibit to be Featured at Orlando Museum of Art
March 10, 2016 New and old art works by UCF Professor Emeritus Steve Lotz, who created the university’s art department in 1968 and retired in 2003, will be exhibited March 12-June 5 at the Orlando Museum of Art. Lotz, whose mural-sized floral triptych Florida Dream has greeted travelers passing through Orlando International Airport’s...
Censorship Is Not All Bad
March 09, 2016 Censorship is not all bad! Free-speech idealists argue that the solution to bad speech (misinformation, lies, abusive language, etc.) is not censorship but more speech. But bad speech can, and often does, drown out the good. A classic form of bad speech is hate speech. Jeremy Waldron, a law professor...
UCF Celebrates the Arts' Musical Performances to Feature Variety of Tastes
March 07, 2016 The music performances at the second UCF Celebrates the Arts will take you on a journey across the globe. The variety is sure to appeal to many, including those who might not normally attend a classical concert. The April 8-16 festival at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts...