The Life and Films of Ula Stoeckl
March 26, 2018 UCF Professor Ula Stoeckl has been making films for more than 40 years, and recently had them screened at the Berlin Film Festival. “You never know what someone will remember,” she says in a quiet and distinct German accent. She just returned to the UCF campus from a month-long celebration...
Player Two Ready: For 2nd Straight Year FIEA Student Game Wins Two Awards at Intel University Games Showcase
March 24, 2018 FIEA student game “Hollowed” won the “Best Visual Quality” award and the second place award for “Best Gameplay” at the 2018 Intel University Games Showcase.
‘Bernarda Alba’ Actress Combines Love for Arts, Humanities at UCF
March 23, 2018 Innovative and interdisciplinary, Ibis Enid Rodríguez makes the most of her UCF experience as both a theatre and modern languages and literature student.
SVAD grads' Omnimodal wins local investment in pitch competition
March 23, 2018 David Moran ’14 and Nathan Selikoff ’04 have won a local startup competition and $25,000 investment for their company, Omnimodal.
Professor Terry Thaxton 's 'Mud Song' wins Florida Book Award
March 23, 2018 Terry Ann Thaxton, professor of English and M.F.A. program director, has won her second Florida Book Award for her third book of poems, Mud Song. Her first Florida Book Award was in 2014 for her second book of poems, The Terrible Wife. Mud Song won the silver and The Terrible Wife won the bronze, both in the poetry...
Cassandra Branham, T&T Alum, Named Editor-in-Chief of Writing Commons
March 22, 2018 In a recent letter to members of the Writing Commons community, Sandy wrote: Writing Commons [is] an open-education resource for instructors and students of writing across the disciplines. Our mission is to provide a high-quality, cost-free resource to support students in the development of writing, research, and critical thinking practices. Over the past year, we...
History student chosen for a fellowship designed to impact girls in low-income countries
March 21, 2018 History major, Danielle Dickey was chosen to take part in the She’s the First Community Impact Fellowship. The fellowship will provide Dickey with an opportunity to develop a local community project aimed at empowering and educating girls in low income countries. Dickey will kick off her year-long fellowship with a...
UCF welcomes David Bjella as new Cello Professor
March 20, 2018 The Music Department is thrilled to announce that David Bjella will be joining the faculty as Professor of Cello this fall. Bjella was previously Professor of Cello at Stetson University for more than 20 years. A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, cellist David Bjella has an extensive, multi-faceted career as...
UCF Game to be Featured at Nation's Biggest Video Game Conference
March 19, 2018 A team from UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design is headed to one of the biggest video game conferences in the nation, by special invitation. The team will unveil its Magical Savior of Friends video game at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from March 21-23. The game...
Student choruses promote social justice at UCF Celebrates the Arts 2018
March 15, 2018 The UCF Women’s Chorus, Men’s Ensemble, University Chorus, and Chamber Singers will treat guests to music with a message at UCF Celebrates the Arts 2018. Their concert, entitled “Journey to Justice (Singing the Journey),” addresses social inequalities, prejudice, and discrimination, but also hopefulness and the potential for change. The performance...
T&T Alumni Aaron Zwintscher Publishes Book
March 13, 2018 T&T alumni Aaron Zwintscher’s first book has been published by Punctum Books. Noise Thinks the Anthropocene is a textual experiment in noise poetics that began as his doctoral dissertation in T&T. As Aaron notes, “noise poetics is the use of noise to explain, elucidate, and evoke (akin to other poetic forms)...
CAH 2018 Staff Recognition Awards
March 13, 2018 On March 28, the College of Arts & Humanities will honor USPS and A&P staff with awards for their outstanding work and contribution to their school, department or program, and to the college. The deadline to nominate colleagues is March 15, 2018.
T&T Student Carissa Baker Successfully Defends Dissertation
March 12, 2018 Carissa Baker successfully defended her dissertation, Exploring a Three-Dimensional Narrative Medium: The Theme Park as “De Sprookjessprokkelaar,” The Gatherer and Teller of Stories, on March 9, 2018 Pictured left to right are members of Carissa’s Dissertation Committee: Dr. Duncan Dickson (Rosen College of Hospitality Management), Dr. Anastasia Salter (School of Visual...
STARTALK – Intensive Russian Program
March 12, 2018 Do you want to expand your language and cultural fluencies, enhance your academic resume, and gain a competitive edge in the global workforce? UCF STARTALK Russian Language and Culture Immersion Program may be for you! In 2018, STARTALK is welcoming high school students, community members, and UCF students.
Florida Conference of Historians recognizes UCF History students
March 12, 2018 UCF History students were awarded for presenting the best papers at the annual Florida Conference of Historians. Graduate student Colin Cook was presented with the Blaine T. Browne Award for his paper titled “Scottish Identity and Presbyterian in Antrim, 1613 – 1670.” The award is given out each year to...
Dana Chandler Discusses Tuskegee Archive
March 11, 2018 Dr. Dana Chandler, Archivist and Associate Professor at Tuskegee University, gave a compelling talk on March 6 at UCF about the work he has done with the rich but poorly-preserved archival collection at Tuskegee. They have done amazing work in the past 10 years both in preserving priceless sources of African...
Alumna fuels the future for leaders in the arts and sciences
March 08, 2018 Kate Kinsley ’83, the first female to earn a Ph.D. from UCF, on how she’s helping future trailblazers in nursing and digital media.
History student receives sixth academic award for 2017-2018 academic year
March 06, 2018 Rachael Rothstein-Safra received the Honors in the Major Outstanding Theses Award for her thesis on China’s only female emperor, Wu Zetian. Every year, the award is presented to four students. The award recognizes one student thesis from a social sciences, business and education category, a natural sciences and health sciences...
2017-2018 Research Incentive Award Winners
March 06, 2018 The UCF Research Incentive Awards (RIA) program supports outstanding research, scholarly, and creative activity that advances the body of knowledge in a particular field, including interdisciplinary research and collaborations. This award recognizes employee contributions to UCF’s key goal of achieving international prominence in research and creative activities. The College of...
Eric Murnane Passes Dissertation Defense
March 03, 2018 Congratulations, Eric! Pictured: Dr. Rudy McDaniel, Dr. Anastasia Salter (Chair), Eric Murnane, Dr. Rita Costello (from McNeese State University via Skype), and Dr. Joey Fanfarelli Dissertation title: Emergent Narrative: Stories of Play and Playing with Stories Emergent narrative, a phenomenon of unexpected contextual stories arising through play, has been researched...