Donny Allen featured by UCF Today
August 31, 2011 It was the “BRPPBBBB” sound that blasts from a trumpet—“so appealing to a 5th grader”— that got Donny Allen hooked on music. Today, as the director of the Marching Knights and the Jammin’ Knights, it is music’s power to inspire and connect that keeps him playing his passionate tune. “94%...
UCF English Lit Majors Take Top Prizes in (Inter)National Jane Austen Essay Contest
August 23, 2011 Two UCF English majors—Faith Dickens and Hillary Casavant—have taken top prizes in the annual Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) essay contest. Faith Dickens won first prize in the undergraduate division for her essay entitled “Whims of the Wealthy: Marriage and Desire for Sense and Sensibility’s Miss Grey.” Hillary...
E. Brady Robinson to lecture at Smithsonian American Art Museum
August 16, 2011 E. Brady Robinson will lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on Sunday, August 28 at 1:30pm. Robinson will look at early landscape paintings on view in the Luce Foundation Center in relation to her own work, in which she explores the immediacy of capturing images made possible by modern...
E. Brady Robinson: Transfer solo exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum
August 16, 2011 The work of E. Brady Robinson is featured in Transfer, a solo photography exhibition on display through October 9 at Cornell Cornell Fine Arts Museum E. Brady Robinson’s work is informed by a culture of instant and mobile image capture. She uses the camera to examine her environment and record...
Music faculty join 9-11 memorial concert
August 15, 2011 On Sunday evening, September 11, UCF Music faculty members Kimberly Saunders Randall and Thomas Potter will be featured soloists in a special concert to remember and honor those who perished on “9-11” ten years ago. This First United Methodist Church of Orlando Chancel Choir and orchestra concert, entitled “We Remember...
UCF Music grad organizes Accidental Music Festival
July 27, 2011 Recent Music M.A. graduate Chris Belt has organized a contemporary music festival in downtown Orlando. The Accidental Music Festival will take place September 4-13, featuring ten days of concerts, public discussions with composers, open rehearsals, and a workshop for middle school and high school composers. Several UCF faculty members and...
CAH Faculty Deliver Games Workshop in Costa Rica
July 22, 2011 From July 11 to July 15, professors Rudy McDaniel (School of Visual Arts and Design) and José Maunez-Cuadra (School of Visual Arts and Design and Latin American Studies) traveled to Puntarenas, Costa Rica to deliver a hands-on workshop to nine faculty at the University of Costa Rica, Pacific Campus. The...
Atkins Foundation gives to technical communication scholarship
July 19, 2011 The Atkins Foundation, Inc., has awarded a grant of $3,000 to the UCF Foundation, Inc. in support of the STC-UCF Melissa Pellegrin Memorial Scholarship, an endowment established by the Orlando Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. The STC endowment is managed by the philanthropic arm of the University of...
Kelle Groom's memoir gaining national attention
July 18, 2011 UCF alum Kelle Groom is garnering critical acclaim with her newest book. I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl: A Memoir, from Free Press/Simon & Schuster, was recently selected by Oprah Winfrey for O Magazine’s 2011 summer reading list. In stirring, hypnotic prose, I Wore the Ocean...
Reedy and Potter in Orlando Arts Magazine
July 08, 2011 Robert Reedy and Thomas Potter are featured in the July/August 2011 edition of Orlando Arts Magazine. The latest issue profiles Reedy as a fine artist and a teacher and spotlights Potter’s professional career as well as the local outreach events he organizes through the UCF Opera program. Orlando Arts Magazine,...
UCF Theatre grad joins The Second City
June 30, 2011 David Knoell, who received his M.F.A. in Acting in 2006 from the University of Central Florida, has been accepted to the Directing Program at The Second City, the leading improv-based sketch comedy company. The competitive program is a year-long intensive program that will have Knoell teaching classes, working as the...
Hunting the Basilisk a Success for John Shafer
June 14, 2011 John Shafer’s play Hunting the Basilisk is currently being performed by the Looking for Lilith Theatre Company at The Rudyard Kipling in Louisville, KY. The play was first introduced at UCF as part of Women’s History Month. The UCF Women’s Studies and Theatre departments were sponsors and UCF students originated...
UCF Hosts Creative Writing Classes for Adults and Teens
June 13, 2011 Creative writing workshops for teens and adults this summer aim to build UCF’s literary community. Courses are designed to teach the skills and techniques used by professional creative writers to create fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Each class will consist of a lecture, discussion and workshop where participants will learn new...
English Student Presents Paper at PCA Conference
June 06, 2011 On April 20-23, 2010, Amanda Ewoldt, a student in the English M.A. in Literary, Cultural, and Textual studies program, attended the Popular Culture Association conference in San Antonio and presented her paper, “‘The twenty-first century is when everything changes’: Torchwood and Resistance to Posthumanism.”
SVAD faculty present at international videoconference on social networking
June 02, 2011 Natalie Underberg, Daniel Novatnak, and Maria Cristina Santana presented on their work at an international videoconference entitled “Las redes sociales como una novedosa herramiento de la investigación” (“Social Networks as an Innovative Research Tool”). Organized by the University of Costa Rica, UCF was invited to participate along with Kansas State...
Peter Telep co-authors Tom Clancy novel
June 01, 2011 By day, Peter Telep teaches screenwriting, creative writing and fiction writing at UCF. By night, he’s a New York Times best-selling author and the most recent collaborator of Tom Clancy, the renowned author of international thrillers. He co-authored Clancy’s newest book Against All Enemies, to be released in June. On...
Knight Winds and García-Velázquez to perform at National Flute Association convention
May 04, 2011 The Knight Winds ensemble and Nora Lee García-Velázquez have been invited to perform at The National Flute Association Annual Convention in Charlotte, NC. The Knight Winds will perform in the evening on Saturday, August 13, while García-Velázquez will perform the following afternoon. Find out more about the Flute Studio at...
Snap! Orlando Showcases Students, Profs’ Photography
May 03, 2011 UCF students and professors’ work will be on display during Snap! Orlando this week. Snap! Orlando is a five-day photography celebration showcasing the work of renowned international and national photographers, as well as images from emerging local talent. The event and its programs are designed to inspire and galvanize a...
‘Green’ Fashions Displayed at Rockefeller Center
May 02, 2011 When Erin Gordon created and photographed dresses made of recycled material for a photography class, she didn’t expect her designs to grab the attention of the NBC network. But they did. Last week, the University of Central Florida senior’s designs were on display at the NBC Experience Store, located in...
2011-12 Hopes Scholarship Winners Announced
May 02, 2011 Five aspiring UCF student artists have been awarded the 2011 J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship, named after the senior vice president of marketing at AOL-Time Warner during the height of the Internet boom. The scholarship was established to encourage talented arts students with financial need to further their artistic careers. Each...