Garcia Celebrates Latin Heritage Month with Recital
September 30, 2015 On Saturday, October 3, flutist Nora Lee Garcia will perform a recital entitled “Music of the Americas” with guitarist Rene Izquierdo at the University of Central Florida Rehearsal Hall at 8:00 p.m. The recital celebrates Latin heritage and includes music from Cuba, Brazil, and Argentina. Garcia, who is of Puerto...
R. Mark Hall Awarded 2015 Diversity and Inclusion Impact Award
September 23, 2015 R. Mark Hall has been awarded the 2015 Faculty/Staff Diversity and Inclusion Impact Award by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. He was nominated by Mary Tripp and Mariana Chao for his sustained efforts to help Writing Center consultants at the University Writing Center consider issues of language and diversity...
Welcome to the T&T Blog!
September 21, 2015 Welcome to the new Texts and Technology blog! Texts and Technology is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Florida. This blog will serve as a repository for thoughts and ideas from the minds of our students, faculty, and staff, as...
UCF Grads to Show Work for Art in Odd Places
September 18, 2015 Bright green geometric shapes made out of plastic drinking straws juxtaposed against street medians. Groups of participants knitting in unison to create musical sounds. A live art installation consisting of an X-ray camper parked in a city lot. These are just some of the sights that passers-by can expect to...
UCF Grads to Show Work for Art in Odd Places
September 18, 2015 Bright green geometric shapes made out of plastic drinking straws juxtaposed against street medians. Groups of participants knitting in unison to create musical sounds. A live art installation consisting of an X-ray camper parked in a city lot. These are just some of the sights that passers-by can expect to...
Beckler’s Horror Feature INTERIOR to Screen at LA Film Festival
September 18, 2015 UCF Film Lecturer Zachary Beckler’s horror feature INTERIOR will screen at Shriekfest 2015 on October 3. The film is an official selection for the prominent Los Angeles festival. INTERIOR is an “alternative” horror film about one man alone in a haunted house capturing evidence of the supernatural over the course...
UCF is One of 75 Organizations Nationwide to Receive Big Read Grant
September 11, 2015 The University of Central Florida is a recipient of a grant of $15,000.00 to host The Big Read in Orlando. The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for...
Women's and Gender Studies Program Ranked in Top 12 Best Colleges for Queer Women
September 02, 2015 In August of 2015, UCF’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program was ranked as one of the Top 12 Best Colleges for Queer Women by SheWired. SheWired, an online magazine focusing on queer women culture wrote, “The Women and Gender Studies program at UCF is one of the best in the...
Mazzucchelli Publishes New Book on Sicilian American Literature
September 01, 2015 Chiara Mazzucchelli new book, The Heart and the Island: A Critical Study of Sicilian American Literature, was published by SUNY Press earlier this month. The Heart and the Island is the first full-length study of Sicilian American literature, and it opens a space for new interdisciplinary discussions on what it...
Animation Career Review Features UCF Animation Programs
August 31, 2015 Animation Career Review’s recent “Take Two: Q&A Interview” with UCF animation professors Cheryl Cabrera and Scott Hall boasts SVAD’s Emerging Media program. The interview explores what undergrads can achieve in UCF’s Character Animation and Experimental Animation programs. The two degrees approach animation differently… Character Animation employs applied industry training and...
Fifth Annual Women's Suffrage March
August 26, 2015 On August 26, the Women’s and Gender Studies program along with the College Democrats, the National Organization for Women and the Voices of Planned Parenthood, met to commemorate the 19th Amendment and the right of women to vote. Two dozen students joined the march from Milican Hall to the Student...
UCF Flute Professor Performs at Two Festivals this Summer 2015
August 26, 2015 Nora Lee García was recently invited to perform with Keith Koons and George Weremchuk at the ClarinetFest Madrid, Spain in July 2015. Recently García presented and performed at the National Flute Convention 2015 held in Washington, D.C. August 2015. Her graduate senior student Ariana Stark was the Assistant Coordinator at...
UCF Marching Knights Recognized in the Orlando Sentinel
August 26, 2015 This summer, members of the UCF Marching Knights went through vigorous training to be physically ready for the season while braving the scorching heat, even training during a downpour. There’s nothing that can stop the UCF Marching Knights from performing at the first half-time show of the season on September...
Experimental Animation Graduates Showcase Animated Short at Film Festivals
August 14, 2015 Four experimental animation graduates are showcasing their animated short film, The Falling Leaf, at LA CineFest, Orlando International Peace and Film Festival and the Miami Independent Film Festival. The short tells the story of a young monk who is assigned a seemingly impossible task and follows his efforts to overcome...
Danker Leads Talk after Easy Rider Screening at the Foosaner Museum of Art
August 14, 2015 On August 20, Lisa Danker will introduce the film Easy Rider at the Foosaner Museum of Art in Melbourne. Following the screening, Danker will lead a discussion about the production history, style and the impact of Easy Rider on the reception of independent filmmaking. In the film, two counterculture bikers...
New Chair of English Department
August 08, 2015 After serving his five-year term, Dr. Patrick Murphy is stepping down as chair of the Department of English. Though Dr. Murphy will be greatly missed, we wish him well on his future endeavors. The department warmly welcomes Dr. Trey Philpotts as our new chair. He is joining us from the...
Russian Intensive Language Program Graduates First Class this Summer
August 06, 2015 The first UCF Russian intensive summer language program, STARTALK, launched from July 6-24. Over one hundred students applied to participate in the free program, however due to the grant’s budget, only eighty were admitted to attend – a number that remained well over the original grant budget plan. The program...
2015 Conference in Ireland
July 13, 2015 Pastoral and inspiring, the University of Limerick campus in western Ireland served as the perfect backdrop for two back-to-back conferences on technical communication attended by several T&T faculty and students, ProComm 2105 and Sigdoc 2015. Faculty and students presented both workshops and posters during the events.
UCF Art Gallery to feature Art of the Carnival Sideshow
July 10, 2015 Painted carnival banners, photographs, sculptures and film screenings are on display at the UCF Art Gallery July 16 – August 29. The exhibition tells the story of the exciting, imaginative, and dissapearing world of the carnival sideshow. The banners on display range in size with the largest spanning an entire...
New Scholarship for Architecture Students
July 08, 2015 There is a new scholarship available for Architecture B.Des. students. The annual Craig Tremblay Memorial Endowed Scholarship in Architecture will be awarded each spring with the application opening in the fall semester. This scholarship may be used to pay for tuition, textbooks, fees and any other items included in the...