"Eye for Broadway" Art Competition Winners
November 25, 2014 The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design proudly announces the winners of the inaugural J.R. Hopes “Eye for Broadway” Art Competition. The competition invited SVAD students to create art inspired by upcoming Broadway performances at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Joy Garcia won for The Phantom...
Undergraduate WST Student Presents at the National Women's Studies Association Convention
November 20, 2014 Amy Maitner, presented her work on Purple Ribbon at the NWSA convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico on November 15, 2014. The convention was notable in the association’s history with 2,6000 participants, and keynote speaker, Bell Hooks. The Purple Ribbon Program is a student-created original program that certifies university faculty...
Cuevas Shares Dissertation Advice
November 18, 2014 Haydee M. Cuevas, a member of the UCF Texts and Technology Advisory Board, recently shared dissertation advice in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s HFES Bulletin. Cuevas authored two articles, “Preparing the Dissertation Proposal” and “Preparing the Dissertation Final Defense.” Read Preparing the Dissertation Proposal Read Preparing the Dissertation Final...
Scot French Presented Work at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
November 13, 2014 T&T faculty, Scot French, presented his latest work on text-mining and topic modeling of the Florida Historical Quarterly at the Southern Historical Association annual meeting in Atlanta, Nov. 14. As part of the SHA workshop, “Computers, Visualization, and Regional History: New Approaches to Visualizing the Literature of a Field,” French included examples of...
Print Your Own Holiday Cards at Flying Horse Editions' Open House
November 13, 2014 Letterpress. Learning. Libations. UCF’s Flying Horse Editions will host an open house on Thursday, November 20 for visitors of all ages to have a hands-on experience with letterpress and to print their own holiday cards. Letterpress is the process of printing from an inked raised surface when paper is impressed...
Haran Wins First Prize at National Juried Exhibition
November 12, 2014 SVAD Associate Professor and Assistant Director Kevin Haran earned first prize at the annual Works on Paper exhibition at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Massachusetts. His mixed-media drawing UFO 3 was selected from over 700 entries. Juror Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of...
Film by Barry Sandler Screens at Writers Guild Event
November 06, 2014 Knock ‘Em Dead a film written by Barry Sandler, recently screened at the Writers Guild of America’s Los Angeles headquarters. The WGA’s Gay & Lesbian Writers Committee and Committee of Black Writers hosted a special preview screening of the new comic murder mystery on November 3. Knock ‘Em Dead follows...
Alumni Interview: Mark Pollitt
November 03, 2014 Former FBI agent Mark Pollitt first visited UCF while working with the National Center for Forensic Science to develop standards for digital forensics. After his retirement from the FBI, he consulted as a cyber-security expert and did some adjunct teaching before accepting a full time position as a visiting professor...
Mónica Cruz Wins Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards
November 03, 2014 Mónica Cruz, a student in the Department of Modern Languages, wins the "Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards". Among winners, she is the only one from the state of Florida. Mónica’s poem “Raíces” was published in The Early Years, West Chester, PA: Story Line Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-9785997-5-1. A significant fact...
Students celebrate the dead during Dia de los Muertos
October 31, 2014 While some UCF students prepare for Halloween festivities, UCF Spanish professors conjured up their own version of a traditional Mexican celebration usually honored after the spooky holiday. The Dìa de los Muertos festival returned to Colbourn Hall for its second year Wednesday, Oct. 29, and was sponsored by the UCF...
Competitive Research Incentive Seed Funding for Women's Studies
October 30, 2014 CAH granted Women’s Studies instructor, Meredith Tweed and Sociology Assistant Professor, Amanda Anthony, created a Competitive Research Incentive Seed Funding for $13,129 for their project titled “Understanding how cultural gender beliefs affect young women’s core leadership identity development.” Their research project, a partnership between the Women’s Studies Program’s Young Women...
Than you, Dr. Jahani for the Lecture about Women's Status in Iran, Pre/Post Islamic Revolution
October 27, 2014 Visiting International scholar, Dr. Sheida Jahani spoke to Professor Tweed’s “Women, Race, and Struggle” honors course on October 23rd, 2014. She spoke about the status of women in Iran, focusing on the changes that the Islamic Revolution brought for women’s roles and equity. Her talk, part of a unit on...
UCF MFA Graduate’s Films Playing at Four Festivals this October!
October 24, 2014 UCF MFA Film graduate Zachary Beckler who directed “Interior” and “Where is Alice?” will be premiering both films at four locations this October. “Interior” and “Where is Alice?” will be showing at the Orlando Freak Show Horror Film Festival, Atlanta Horror Film Festival, Knoxville Horror Film Festival and Atlanta Horror...
Authors to Read from Works, Discuss Writing
October 21, 2014 Two authors will visit UCF to read from their works and talk about the writing process. Jim Ray Daniels, who has published poetry and fiction about the rust-belt working class, will be on campus Tuesday, Oct. 21. He is the prize-winning author/editor of more than 30 books as well as...
Sandler Honored by the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema
October 20, 2014 The Montreal International Festival of New Cinema will present a special 30th anniversary screening of Ken Russell’s classic psycho-sexual thriller Crimes of Passion, written and produced by UCF film professor Barry Sandler. Crimes of Passion, first released in 1984 is now considered a cult classic, and has maintained a strong...
Love Your Body Week promotes healthy self-image at UCF
October 17, 2014 The National Organization for Women at UCF held its annual Love Your Body Week Oct. 13 to Oct. 17 in 2014. Having recovered from six years of anorexia, NOW Vice President Christina Marriner is passionate about changing the conversation about body image. “A lot of the representations of different body types...
SVAD Professors Featured in Experimental Animation Show
October 16, 2014 UCF School of Visual Arts & Design professors Matt Dombrowski and Scott F. Hall is featured in an exhibit at Purdue University. Their work will screen at the Fountain Gallery in Lafayette, Indiana as part of “Set in Motion: Video Art & Experimental Film Nights.” “Set in Motion” is a...
J.R. Hopes Sponsors Inaugural "Eye for Broadway" Art Competition
October 15, 2014 The inaugural J.R. Hopes “Eye for Broadway” Art Competition is now open to students in UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design. The competition invites participants to create pieces of artwork inspired by upcoming Broadway performances at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. One winner will be selected...
Kourova Awarded Grant by U.S. Department of State
October 06, 2014 Alla Kourova recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of State. The award, worth nearly $100,000, is part of the US-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program. Kourova’s project is called “Getting Closer: A Cross-Cultural U.S.-Russian Project Focusing on Teaching Foreign Languages to U.S. Students and Blind/Visually Impaired Students in Russia.” The...
UCF brings digital art to Art & Algorithms festival
October 03, 2014 Art and math — when those two words are together, it’s usually in an either/or scenario, but one local festival is hoping to break that trend by bringing the two together. The Art & Algorithms Festival will take place in Downtown Titusville, focusing on digital art as an artistic medium....