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...
History student named Boren Fellow
June 11, 2018 Rachael Rothstein-Safra ’17, a recent history alumna and staff member for the UCF Community Veterans History Project was named a Boren fellow. Fellows represent highly motivated individuals who are selected to study languages deemed critical to U.S. national security.
History Student Named Boren Fellow
June 07, 2018 History major Rachel Rothstein-Safra received a Boren Fellowship which provides funding for immersive study of the language and culture of countries deemed critical to U.S. national security. Read more at https://today.ucf.edu/3-ucf-students-named-boren-fellows/.
New Issues of Stylus Put Spotlight on First-Year Writers
June 06, 2018 Two new issues of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric’s student publication, Stylus: A Journal of First-Year Writing, have been released. The new issues of Stylus can be found here. Stylus publishes outstanding writing and research produced in the University of Central Florida’s first-year composition courses, ENC 1101: Composition I...
UCF to Celebrate "Station Eleven" in NEA Big Read
June 06, 2018 UCF is one of 75 organizations to receive an NEA Big Read grant to host a community reading program in 2019. The Big Read at UCF will focus on Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Activities will take place from March 15-April 15, 2019.
Art History, History receive mini-grants from The Endeavor Foundation with AAC&U
June 04, 2018 AAC&U announced that 24 departments from institutions across the country will receive mini-grants, supported by a grant from The Endeavor Foundation, to advance civic learning and social responsibility.
T&T faculty member Anastasia Salter interview published in HASTAC
May 29, 2018 From the introduction to the interview: To put it mildly, Dr. Anastasia Salter has been one of the more eclectic thinkers and prolific writers in media studies. Salter’s ever-expanding body of work serves as a signal, spotlighting the issues and concerns we should be paying attention to, whether it be software archiving...
New Summer Festival Dedicated to Emerging Playwrights
May 23, 2018 Pegasus PlayLab provides opportunities for students and audience members to watch experimental new works by the next generation of playwrights. UCF is launching Pegasus PlayLab, a new summer theatre festival dedicated to developing new plays by emerging playwrights. The festival, which runs June 2-24 and Aug. 23-25 on the UCF...
UCF welcomes Yoon Joo Hwang as new bassoon professor
May 23, 2018 The School of Performing Arts is proud to welcome to the faculty Dr. Yoon Joo Hwang, Assistant Professor of Bassoon. Recently, Dr. Hwang held teaching positions at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Pasadena Conservatory of Music, and Idyllwild Summer Arts Academy in California. In addition, she has taught several...
Digital Media student wins Equestrian National Championship title
May 23, 2018 Digital Media student Molly Murtha recently won UCF’s first equestrian national championship title at Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association’s National Championship Horse Show.
Pegasus PlayLab Shines the Spotlight on Emerging Playwrights
May 23, 2018 The new festival, which begins June 2, provides opportunities for students and audience members to watch experimental new works by the next generation of playwrights.
UCF's "30 Under 30"
May 21, 2018 Congratulations to all recipients of UCF Alumni’s “30 Under 30” award, and in particular, those from the College of Arts and Humanities: Samuel Jimenez, ’11 and ’14MFA, and Lindsey Turnbull, ’10 and ’12MA.
T&T faculty Angela Rounsaville elected to CCCC governance
May 21, 2018 CCCC, which stands for Conference on College Composition and Communication Consortium, just announced that T&T faculty member Angela Rounsaville has been elected at-large member of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition. Congratulations, Angela!
T&T alumni Irene Pynn's play to debut at Orlando Fringe Festival
May 18, 2018 Dr. Irene Pynn’s play, Enter, Pursued by a Whale, is being performed five times during the Orlando Fringe Festival. For more information, visit https://orlandofringe.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=201 Enter, Pursued by a Whale Renie and Rob Productions, Atlamonte Springs, FL 13 & Up – Some PG-13 Language 60 Minutes Blue Venue Friday, May 18, 2018 @...
Aquifer named finalist for Firecracker Award
May 18, 2018 The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) has named Aquifer as a finalist in the Best Debut Magazine category of their annual Firecracker Awards for Independently and Self-Published Literature. This distinguished literary awards series spotlights books and magazines making a sparkling contribution to our literary culture, and publishers striving...