Walt Napier ’15 ’16 ’20MA recently returned to UCF for Veterans Month to share his experience as historian at the US Army Command and General Staff College & Combined Arms Center in Fort Leavenworth, KS.
The UCF community gathered to salute and celebrate alumni veterans. The salute was planned in a joint effort by Military and Veteran Student Success, the Department of History and the UCF Community Veterans History Project.
A new movie by musician and filmmaker Trevor Rigby ’08 was released earlier this year and is now available on many streaming platforms, including Amazon, YouTube and Apple TV.
UCF’s Art Knight! will be held on Friday, November 17. The annual event, hosted by the School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD), is an open house for the community to tour studio spaces and classrooms, see current student projects and interact with art students and faculty.
During Hispanic Heritage Month, the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies program in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures brought to campus the award-winning Brazilian film “Olha pra Elas” (“Look at them”), which shares the experiences of women imprisoned in Brazil.
The Enna chapter of the Kiwanis Club, an international organization dedicated to the education and well-being of children worldwide, recognized Associate Professor Chiara Mazzucchelli, Ph.D., for her outstanding contributions to the field of Italian Studies and her career in education.
UCF’s historians are working with the National Cemetery Administration to collect the stories of individuals buried in the cemeteries as part of the Veterans Legacy Program.