Blending Technology and Traditional Art to Inspire A Love of Science
November 23, 2016 Ryan Buyssens was the kind of kid who would take his toys apart and rebuild them in new ways. Sometimes they worked. Sometimes they didn’t. He didn’t think he’d make a career out of his tinkering, but he has. Not only is he an assistant professor for sculpture and art...
UCF community joins charity quilt drive to honor Pulse responders
November 23, 2016 UCF faculty members Anastasia Salter and Anne Sullivan contributed to a charity drive for victims, families and responders following the horrific shooting at Orlando’s Pulse LGBTQ nightclub. Orlando Modern Quilt Guild president Alissa Lapinsky was looking for a way to help, and she coordinated with the guild to launch a...
UCF Alumna Bright As Broadway
November 17, 2016 Three weeks after earning her degree a semester early in December 2014, Abby Jaros sat on her bed alongside her parents in a packed up apartment. All at once, Jaros realized the leap she was about to take in moving to New York City to pursue a career in theater....
T&T Student Published in Xchanges
November 16, 2016 Congratulations to T&T student, Jennifer Miller, on her recently published article in Xchanges! Her article may be viewed here: "Multiliteracies for Inclusive Technologies: A Case Study on Location-Based Services and Domestic Violence Survivors."
Paid Internship on Reproductive Rights
November 15, 2016 The Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps (RRASC) is a 10-week paid summer internship program sponsored by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College. Undergraduate students intern at reproductive rights and social justice organizations around the country. Organizations work on a wide array of issues from reproductive health,...
Three T&T Students Have Been Named 2016-2018 HASTAC Scholars
November 14, 2016 The Texts and Technology program is pleased to announce that three of its students, Nick DeArmas, Jennifer Miller, and David Morton, have been named 2016-2018 HASTAC Scholars (pronounced Haystack: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory). The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program is an innovative student-driven community of graduate and...
Art in Odd Places to Feature Pop-Up Exhibits on Campus
November 10, 2016 Keep your eyes and ears open Wednesday and Thursday around UCF’s main campus – you just may stumble across some pop-up displays that are part of the national Art in Odd Places event. Mixed-media sculptures, photography, plein air paintings, musical compositions and other interactive works of art will be scattered...
Jazz legend Ira Sullivan to join Flying Horse Big Band in concert
November 02, 2016 UCF’s Flying Horse Big Band will perform with five-time Grammy nominee Ira Sullivan on Friday, November 4. The premier ensemble of the university’s jazz studies program, the Flying Horse Big Band is under the direction of Pegasus Professor Jeff Rupert, director of Jazz Studies. Ira Sullivan is a world-renowned multi-instrumentalist,...
UCF Alumnus Heads to His New Position at Daytona State College Writing Center
November 02, 2016 The Daytona State College Writing Center welcomes UCF alumnus Mikael Romo as their new writing specialist. Mikael is a 2015 graduate from UCF with a BA in Writing and Rhetoric. He had this to say about the Writing and Rhetoric major: “Writing & Rhetoric is an intellectually challenging major; it...
A Summer at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture: Grad Student Becomes a Part of History
October 31, 2016 Thousands of applications were received and Porsha Dossie was one of twenty-four chosen to intern at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C. As the Curatorial Affairs intern, Dossie created content for two video installations for the museum, and helped to facilitate a...
García performs at International Flute Convention near Paris
October 31, 2016 Associate professor Nora Lee García recently performed at the 5th International Flute Convention hosted by the Maurice-Ravel Conservatory in Levallois, France. García was the only U.S.-born artist invited to play at the prestigious event. She performed Claude Bolling’s “Picnic Suite” with acclaimed guitarist Rene Izquierdo, professor at the University of...
Underberg-Goode invited to Science of Storytelling Summit
October 31, 2016 Natalie Underberg-Goode is one of eleven scholars invited to the Science of Storytelling Summit Organized by the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, the event was held October 27-28. Inspired by the work of cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner, the summit brought together a group of interdisciplinary...
History Graduate Student selected to work on Digital Documentary Edition
October 30, 2016 Serving as Graduate Research Associate for the Kentucky Historical Society, graduate student Tyler Campbell was selected to work on the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition as an emerging scholar. He will help annotate the project’s first 1,500 documents. More information can be found here: http://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/graduate-research-associates
Rethinking the Theme Park at Halloween Horror Nights
October 28, 2016 While I’ve lived here in Florida for a few years, and been an annual passholder at Disney since before I came to Orlando, I haven’t spent as much time at Universal Studios. Every year I’m impressed by the advertising campaign that accompanies the arrival of Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights (“hosted”...
Cloud 9 is a thought-provoking spectacle
October 28, 2016 Theatre UCF opens Caryl Churchill’s time shifting comedy Cloud 9 on Thursday, November 10, in UCF’s Black Box theater. The play, a parody of the Victorian Empire’s sexual rigidity, runs through November 20. Cloud 9 takes place in Colonial Africa in the first act, and later moves to a modern...
Honorable Mention for Best Chapter of the Year (2016) awarded to UCF's Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
October 25, 2016 Congratulations to UCF’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national History Honor Society for their recent award of Honorable Mention for Best Chapter of the Year. The Alpha Gamma Chi Chapter hosts academic, social, and charitable activities throughout the year. This student-led organization works with campus and community partners to...
Literacy Narratives and the Need to Make Yourself Vulnerable
October 25, 2016 In the beginning of this semester, I asked my students to write a short reflection on how they learned to read and write. The assignment was an abbreviated version of what we traditionally call a literacy narrative in the field of writing and rhetoric. Literacy narratives are popular assignments in...
UCF Percussionist Performs Soundtrack based on SunRail Travels
October 20, 2016 In October, UCF Music faculty and percussionist Dr. Thad Anderson will give two free performances of Northbound, a travel soundtrack he composed based on a light rail trip. The performances will take place on Thursday, October 27 on the UCF campus and Sunday, October 30, at the Timucua Arts White...
UCF History Professor Teaches Through Podcasts
October 19, 2016 Using various items as symbols of history, like a leather cap and goggles, surfboards, ceramic pots, a quirky, yet space-age sound, student animation and over a hundred interviews—Professor Robert Cassanello created a podcast. Listeners all over the world click on “A History of Central Florida” to take on a journey...
Feinstein at UCF School of Performing Arts
October 18, 2016 Award-winning performer Michael Feinstein takes his seat behind the Steinway Piano and accompanies Kyle Laing, a student in UCF’s musical theatre program, on Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Love Look Away,” while an audience of Laing’s peers and professors listens intently. The performance, part of a larger master class session led by...