Texts and Tech Program Hosts Workshops on How Learning Works
February 12, 2014 UCF Texts and Technology hosted two workshops for the program’s Graduate Teaching Associates. Led by Eric Main, Associate Director of UCF’s Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning, the sessions were based on the book How Learning Works: Seven Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan Ambrose, et al. The workshops...
InMedia publishes Mauer article
February 12, 2014 An article by Barry Mauer entitled “Control Room and the Staging of War” was recently published by InMedia, a french Journal of Media and Media Representations. Read the article online here. InMedia documents the study of media and media representations in the English-speaking world. The journal focuses on press, photography,...
UCF Collaborates with ROBOTIS in Robotics Workshop
February 11, 2014 On January 18 at the annual Otronicon expo in the Orlando Science Center, UCF’s HCI Lab and CREATE teamed up with ROBOTIS to hold an inaugural teacher’s workshop for STEAM learning with robots (http://hci.cah.ucf.edu/roboticsworkshop). ROBOTIS is known globally for making stand outs in the field of robotics. In 2011, DARwIn-OP,...
UCF Students Send Holiday Greetings in Spanish to U.S. Troops
February 11, 2014 During the fall semester, students in Yilaisa Seijas’s Spanish 1120 and 1121 courses created holiday cards in Spanish to send to women and men serving abroad. Custom greeting cards were mailed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations. Seijas’s students were recognized by the president and co-founder of For the Troops,...
Amelia Mackarey receives 2014 Order of Pegasus Award
February 10, 2014 Congratulations to Amelia Mackarey, a recipient of the 2014 Order of Pegasus Award. This award is the most prestigious award given by UCF. Amelia is an undergraduate major in both English/Literature and Biomedical Sciences and is working with Dr. James Campbell on her HIM thesis Representation and Imagination of the...
Madelyn Flammia Wins Technical and Scientific Communication Award
February 06, 2014 Madelyn Flammia has been honored with a CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award for her article, “Preparing Technical Communication Students to Function as User Advocates in a Self-Service Society.” The article appeared in Volume 42 Issue 3 of the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. Flammia’s work was recognized in...
New UCF Public Art Designed to be Temporary
February 05, 2014 The latest piece of art on UCF’s main campus won’t last forever — by design. The “pop up” sculpture, a project by senior studio art major Lea Fales, is meant to exist only for a short period. “Untitled,” which Fales created over a five-week period for Associate professor Scott F....
Alumna receives Writing Grant from National Endowment for the Arts
February 05, 2014 UCF alumna Kelle Groom recently was one of just 38 writers to receive a $25,000 Creative Writing Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Groom received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing/Poetry in 2008 and has been making waves in the literary world ever since. The...
Adele LaBrake Retires After 35 Years of Service to UCF
February 05, 2014 Adele LaBrake worked at the University of Central Florida for 35 years, and for 25 of those she was a staple in the Music Department. On Friday, January 31, 2014, Adele retired from the university. During her time at UCF she was the Administrative Assistant to more than 10 different...
Retired SVAD Professor Exhibits Among Art Giants
January 27, 2014 Recently retired professor David Haxton is among 40 artists exhibiting at the Museum of Modern Art featured in the exhibit Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New. His film “Overlapping Planes” is on display alongside artists including Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris and John Baldessari. Haxton’s film is on...
Adriana Nieves Recipient of Burnett Honors College Scholarship
January 22, 2014 UCF senior music major Adriana Nieves is the recipient of a $ 1,000.00 scholarship award from the Burnett Honors College at UCF for her HIM (Honors in the Major) Thesis proposal, which was submitted during the Fall 2013 semester. Her thesis, “Madama Butterfly: the Mythology, or How Imperialism and the...
UCF Hosts Game Competition at Orlando Science Center's Otronicon Expo
January 21, 2014 The Orlando Science Center is holding its annual Otronicon video-gaming expo this weekend, and part of its draw is a 48-hour competition organized by UCF to create a video game for a virtual reality game system. The 20 chosen competitors, which have already been placed on four teams, will be...
UCF Alum's Screenplay To Premiere at Sundance
January 08, 2014 The One I Love, a film written by Justin Lader (Film B.F.A. ’06), will premiere at the 30th annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The quirky comedy stars Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss as a troubled couple, while Ted Danson plays the therapist urging them to take a...
Trumpet Ensemble to Perform at FMEA Conference
January 08, 2014 The UCF Trumpet Ensemble has been invited to present a clinic andperformance at the Florida Music Educators’ Association conference in Tampa on January 9. The session, “Superior Choices: A Survey of Exemplary Trumpet Ensemble Literature from the FBA S&E List”, will introduce new works for trumpet ensemble and offer techniques...
Modern Languages Faculty and Alum Present at International Conference
January 07, 2014 In December, Keith Folse and Melanie Gonzalez presented papers at the Vocab@Vic Conference on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition at the University of Victoria in New Zealand. In 2013, Folse was an invited plenary speaker at international conferences in Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Oman, and Japan, as well as several...
Thaxton Authors Guide to Creative Writing in the Community
December 16, 2013 Bloomsbury Publishing recently released a new creative writing guide from Terry Ann Thaxton. Creative Writing in the Community focuses on the practical side of creative writing, connecting classroom experiences to community-based projects. It prepares creative writing students for teaching in schools, homeless centres, youth clubs and care homes. Enhanced by...
UCF Film Students Become Producers for Five Stories 2013 Compilation
December 16, 2013 Film students at the University of Central Florida have taken on a new role: producer. A group of 28 students in a class this past semester took on the task of producing a compilation of five films by classmates, marketing them online and submitting them to film festivals around the...
Two UCF Artists Present Solo Exhibitions at Art Basel
December 05, 2013 6th Street Container Gallery is currently hosting two solo exhibitions featuring artists Stephanie Cafcules and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz. The exhibitions will be on display until December 12, coinciding with Art Basel, the famous international art show. Cafcules presents Fluid Dynamics, her continued investigation altering synthetic materials and exploring the dynamism of...
Meet UCF Grad Who is Broadway's Spider-Man
November 22, 2013 Who says Knights can’t fly? Justin Matthew Sargent, who graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2008 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in musical theatre, is soaring over New York City audiences in the title role of Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” Sargent got his start...
English Professor and Chair Will Lecture at China Universities
November 22, 2013 In December, Patrick D. Murphy, Professor and Chair of the Department of English, will give twelve lectures in China at eight different universities in the cities of Beijing, Shijizhuang, Dalian, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Jinhua. His presentations will focus on the theory and practice of ecological literary criticism, American humanities programs,...