UCF Piano Graduate ‘17 Corin Staves Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Munich, Germany
August 06, 2018 Congratulations to Corin Staves ’17, an alumnus of the Bachelor’s of Music in music performance and the Piano Studio, on being named a 2018-19 Fulbright Scholar and awarded a scholarship to participate in international exchange programs in Munich, Germany! Staves is drawn to Munich because of its vibrant music community...
Featured Courses for Fall 2018
August 01, 2018 The UCF History Department has numerous, interesting courses being offered for Fall of 2018. Starting now, you can register for any of the following courses. Be sure to check beck regularly to see what new courses are coming this Fall. In AMH3562, we will unpack this...
Philosophy professor collaborates on journal focused on “collective behavior”
July 31, 2018 One of the world’s oldest academic journals just published a special issue dedicated to studying “collective behavior,” which was assembled by an international group of leading researchers in the field, including UCF Philosophy Professor Stephen M. Fiore. The special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society takes a broad...
Three CAH students receive Fulbright scholarships
July 27, 2018 Three students from the College of Arts and Humanities have been awarded 2018-19 Fulbright scholarships for international exchange programs.
Hurston autobiography chosen for 2018 Common Read
July 23, 2018 All first-year students at UCF read Zora Neale Hurston’s “Dust Tracks on a Road” as a part of the 2018 Common Read program. English professor Anna Lillios talks about why this book was selected and what makes the local author so special.
Florida Veteran Remembered on the 100th Anniversary of His Death
July 23, 2018 100 years ago on July 20, Deland resident and Stetson University student Paul Hon died in a battle “leading his platoon into a charge against the Germans” in the First World War. The battle began on July 18, 1918, under the command of French General Charles Mangin. Dr. Amelia H....
UCF receives funding to archive Jones High collections
July 18, 2018 The Florida Humanities Council granted the UCF History Department a $4,360 grant to assist the Jones High School Historical Society with archiving their museum and collections.
Community Project Grant Awarded to History Department
July 16, 2018 The Florida Humanities Council granted the UCF History Department a $4,360 grant to assist the Jones High School Historical Society with archiving their museum and collections. Located near downtown Orlando, the high school and was founded in 1882 and was originally a segregated high school. Historically black high schools throughout...
Piano Professor Hosts Guests from China for an “East meets West” Summer Piano Program on UCF Campus
July 11, 2018 This year’s All-Steinway Summer Piano Progam held this June at the School of Performing Arts brought a special collaboration between two groups of pianists; young pianists from the age of 12-17 from Florida and professional piano teachers from China. These nine young piano teachers came from five different cities in...
TEFL student gets teaching experience abroad
July 10, 2018 The UCF Modern Languages and Literature Department is encouraging current Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Undergraduate Certification students to apply for an ETA-ship abroad. This year’s selected student, Emily Puckett, worked alongside experienced instructors at two bilingual schools in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.
Veterans Legacy Program Team Member Highlight
July 05, 2018 Harrison Smith and Nikki Hearn are two of our undergraduate students working with the Veterans Legacy Program at UCF. Last Spring they worked on biographies of World War I veterans Clyde Atwood Emerson and Edward D. DeSaussure in Dr. Lyons’ History and Historians course, which focused on World War I...
UCF students, faculty document WWI history
July 02, 2018 The Orlando Sentinel featured the Veterans Legacy Program’s upcoming research trip to France, which is part of an ongoing effort at UCF to research and record the personal stories of American veterans.
UCF students, faculty travel to France to document WWI history
June 29, 2018 The University of Central Florida’s History Department and Center for Humanities and Digital Research are proud to partner with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration to bring the stories of U.S. veterans buried in national cemeteries to life as part of the Veterans Legacy Program. The Orlando Sentinel...
CREATE hosts documentary camp for Boys & Girls Clubs
June 26, 2018 UCF CREATE is hosting a documentary camp for high school students, during which students create their own documentaries on how they have been inspired by mentors.
Florida Prison Education Project wins Community Challenge
June 25, 2018 An initiative that seeks to offer a high-quality undergraduate education to people who are incarcerated and is led by faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities has been championed by the university.
Jennifer Miller successfully defends dissertation
June 21, 2018 Digital Citizenship Tools for Cause-Based Campaigns: A Broadened Spectrum of Social Media Engagement and Participation-Scale Methodology develops and applies two new tools for understanding, measuring, and recursively adjusting small- to medium-size social media-based philanthropic campaigns to better foster participation and engagement—in other words, democratic digital citizenship. First, a theoretical model is offered...
UCF alumni help others "Dump the Pump"
June 21, 2018 In honor of “National Dump the Pump Day,” UCF sat down with Omnimodal founders David Thomas Moran and Nathan Selikoff to ask a few questions.
Opera UCF students praised by Denyce Graves
June 15, 2018 Five opera students had the opportunity to participate in a private master class with Denyce Graves in front of a small audience at Snap! Space on June 10. “The morning consisted of a Q&A with [opera star Denyce] Graves, followed by arias from five of the students with the Washington...
'Human Error' Prepares Students to be Voice of New Generation in Theatre
June 14, 2018 UCF School of Performing Arts presents Human Error, a new play that runs June 14-24 and Aug. 23-26 on the UCF Main Stage. The production is part of Pegasus PlayLab, a summer theatre festival dedicated to developing plays by emerging playwrights. Human Error gives students and faculty the opportunity to create a fully mounted production...
Amanda Hill successfully defends dissertation
June 11, 2018 Power to the People: Responsible Facilitation in Co-Creative Story-Making describes and applies a tool for recording and analyzing the co-productive creation process of Digital Storytelling (DST) workshops to be used by project facilitators for the purposes of reflection and for developing an ethics of responsibility in story-making practices. It provides a...