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...
Student's App Makes Knightcast Mobile
August 30, 2010 Knightcast listeners no longer have to sit in front of a computer to listen to UCF’s nonprofit, student-run radio station because, thanks to Michael Seifollahi, there’s an app for that. Seifollahi, who graduated this summer with a bachelor’s degree in digital media, created the free app, which is available for...
Folse Publishes Second Edition of Textbook
August 25, 2010 Keith Folse published a second edition of Clear Grammar, an ESL textbook series published by the University of Michigan Press. What makes this new series cutting-edge in a traditional field is that the language presented to learners is based on computer-driven advances in corpus linguistics research findings since 2000.
Choose Your Own Adventure course to be offered this fall
August 18, 2010 In February, the School of Visual Arts and Design received an Undergraduate Education Pilot Project grant from UCF to develop an innovative model for online instruction. The resulting course, entitled Adventures in Emerging Media, is based on the choose your own adventure novels that were popular in the 1970s and...
Art in Motion: SunRail-inspired exhibit features UCF installation
August 18, 2010 What moves you? That’s the question three UCF graduate students pose in a new interactive art installation to be featured during Orlando’s 3rd Thursday Gallery Hop next week. The installation, dubbed “CONNECTIONS,” is a 10-foot sphere illuminated by projections of images and videos about movement. It’s inspired by recent debates...
Sandler and Pugh collaborate on essay of 1950s Hollywood
August 10, 2010 UCF Film’s Barry Sandler teamed up with fellow Associate Professor of English Tison Pugh to write an essay for an upcoming book entitled Larger Than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s. Their essay revolves around the life and work of Montgomery Clift. The book will be released on August 13,...
E. Brady Robinson's Photos featured in Corcoran Gallery
July 28, 2010 The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC has acquired two photographs from the series E. Brady Robinson: Shift for the permanent collection. More of Robinson’s work can be seen at http://ebradyrobinson.com/.
Justin Sargent joins Broadway production of Rock of Ages
July 09, 2010 Justin Sargent is joining the Broadway production of Rock of Ages. Though originally cast in the national tour, he has been selected for the Broadway production and is currently in rehearsals. Justin graduated from UCF with a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre in 2008. Since he graduated, Justin has worked professionaly...
Thomas Potter with the Festival Singers of Florida
June 16, 2010 Thomas Potter will be featured as guest baritone soloist with the Festival Singers of Florida during a performance on October 2 at the First United Methodist Church of Orlando.
Thomas Potter with the Orlando Philharmonic
June 16, 2010 Thomas Potter will be featured as soloist in two Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra performances of Handel’s Messiah. The performances will take place on Saturday, December 11 in Celebration, FL and Monday, December 13 at the Margeson Theater, located in the John & Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Centre, as part of the Orlando...
McDaniel edits special journal issue on video games for good
June 08, 2010 Assistant Professor Rudy McDaniel recently guest edited a special double issue of the international journal Cognitive Technology focused on video games and cognition. Specifically, the issue focuses on “games for good,” video games that impact cognition for a particular pro-social purpose. Also guest editing this special issue is former Digital...
Art History grad curates exhibit of "Miracles"
June 02, 2010 Art history graduate Natália Marques da Silva is the curator of “Requesting Miracles: Votive Offerings from Diverse Cultures,” an international exhibit of sacred objects. The exhibit runs through Saturday, June 5 in the Alice & William Jenkins Gallery at Crealdé’ School of Art. Read more at the UCF Newsroom. Watch...
Nathan Redwood at Flying Horse in June
May 28, 2010 Nathan Redwood, a young painter from Los Angeles whose work is currently gaining international recognition, will be in residency at Flying Horse Editions from June 7 to 17. The LA Times recently wrote about Redwood: “His extravagance leans toward both the baroque and the surreal. Much has fed into this...
Ink!Rub connects collectors with artists
May 24, 2010 More than 100 serious local art collectors and supporters turned out at the new Flying Horse Editions studio in downtown Orlando last week to celebrate and shop for the latest season’s works. The show featured works from internationally known artists completed at the studio. Read the full story at the...
Wind Ensemble to perform at summer conventions
May 21, 2010 The UCF Wind Ensemble has been invited to perform at the American School Band Directors Association‘s 58th Annual Convention and the Florida Bandmasters Association‘s Summer Convention. The two prestigious music conferences are being held concurrently in Orlando. The Wind Ensemble will perform at the Hilton Orlando on Thursday, July 8...
Anna Maria Jones wins 2010 Women's Research Center Award in the Arts and Humanities
May 21, 2010 Anna Maria Jones received UCF’s Women’s Research Center 2010 Award in the Arts and Humanities. She becomes the 16th recipient of the annual award initiated in 2002. The award defrays some of the costs of research and production associated with her scholarly research and production of her book-length manuscript Self-Possessed:...