UCF is One of 75 Organizations Nationwide to Receive Big Read Grant
June 16, 2017 ORLANDO to Read and Celebrate THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT HEAVEN BEARS JANUARY 8 –FEBRUARY 4, 2018 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, IN COLLABORATION WITH SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, is a recipient of a grant of $14,000 to host the NEA Big Read in Orlando. An initiative of the National Endowment for...
UCF Flying Horse Big Band's Record Climbing the Charts
June 14, 2017 The Flying Horse Big Band is garnering a bit of national attention for its most recent album, Big Man on Campus, which at the time of this writing is #6 on the Roots Music Report (RMR) Top 50 and #45 on the JazzWeek Top 50.
Theatre UCF’s 2017-18 Season Features New and Provocative Works
June 13, 2017 Theatre UCF, part of the UCF School of Performing Arts, examines current social issues and focuses on new and contemporary plays in its 2017-18 season. This is the first season planned by artistic director Julia Listengarten and it includes plays and musicals that are rarely produced in Central Florida. Listengarten...
Recent DWR Award Winners
June 13, 2017 The Department of Writing and Rhetoric is continuously celebrating the successes of our faculty. Over the weekend, three of our faculty members have won various awards for their accomplishments. Stephanie Vie attended the 2017 Computers and Writing conference this past weekend in Findlay, Ohio. There, she received the 2016 Charles...
Citizen Curator Project on RICHES
June 08, 2017 RICHES (the Regional Initiative for Collecting the History, Experiences and Stories) includes a permanent archive of Resilience: Remembering Pulse and Pulse: A Consultation, plus five additional projects: Florida Pride and Shame by Amanda Polk; Black in White by Kimari Jackson; Literature for the Resistance by Jaclyn Crawford; Central Florida Pulse:...
"The Committee" Documentary Now Online
June 06, 2017 Watch CAH’s award-winning documentary “The Committee” online at WUCF TV.
T&T Student, Clayton Benjamin, Published in Textshop Experiments
June 01, 2017 Clayton Benjamin’s piece, “Conducting Place/Consulting Space: A Proposal to an Electronic Monument to Addiction,” was recently published in Textshop Experiments (volume 3, Summer 2017). Textshop Experiments is an open-access journal dedicated to extending Gregory Ulmer’s work. Using methodology from Ulmer’s Electronic Monuments, Benjamin’s article proposes the installation of a new...
History Department's Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni has been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science
May 26, 2017 History Department’s Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni has been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Her article, “Spatial History, deep mapping and digital storytelling: archaeology’s future imagined through an engagement with the Digital Humanities,” argues for collaboration between GIS specialists and digital humanists, as well as collaboration in deep mapping, digital storytelling and...
UCF Students’ Solar-Powered Art Sculpture to be Installed in Lake Nona
May 25, 2017 A team of University of Central Florida students who designed a solar-powered art sculpture celebrated this week after the Orlando Utilities Commission and Tavistock Development selected its project to be built in the innovative, master-designed Lake Nona community later this year. Four teams of senior-level undergraduate students in mechanical engineering,...
MLL Student Named as a 2017 Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate
May 23, 2017 American Council of Teachers of Russian, a division of the American Councils for International Education, has named UCF student Michael Martinez as a 2017 Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate. Martinez is the first student from UCF to win the award. The award is given to students for “an unfailing devotion and...
Remembering Pulse
May 22, 2017 UCF invites the community to campus on June 8 to honor and remember the 49 lives taken at Pulse.
Kevin Mora: One of Many Success Stories
May 21, 2017 Meet Kevin Mora, a UCF May 2017 graduate and former foster care child. Mora is staring a career at the Orlando Regional Medical Center microbiology lab. His past in foster care was difficult but he focused in his schoolwork and thrived at UCF. He says, “You are forced to grow...
Anna V. Eskamani Service-Learning Day 2017
May 20, 2017 May 20th marks Anna V. Eskamani Service-Learning Day! Service-Learning is a major component of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and we embrace the power of service and its integration into academics wholeheartedly. To celebrate throughout the week, we will elevate programs that impact Florida’s foster children and meet successful...
'Hamilton' Calls UCF Alumnus for Role in National Tour
May 15, 2017 “Perform as if your last meal depended on it,” Desmond Newson said. That piece of advice from his wise brother was a driving force that landed Newson a coveted spot in the national tour of the Tony-award winning Broadway musical, Hamilton.
Arts & Humanities 2017 Founder's Day Awardee
May 15, 2017 Dean Jeff Moore introduces the UCF College of Arts & Humanities 2017 Founder’s Day winner: History major Kayla Davis.
Gerstein to Show in Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art
May 15, 2017 Mark Gerstein, associate professor of UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design, has been chosen to exhibit in the 2017 Orlando Museum of Art Florida Prize in Contemporary Art. This annual event celebrates the achievements and innovation of Florida artists and the vision and talent inherent in their work.
VA Selects UCF Historians to Archive Stories of Deceased Veterans
May 15, 2017 A University of Central Florida team of scholars has been awarded a $290,000 contract from the National Cemetery Administration, an agency of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to archive the stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery for a new generation of students. UCF is one of three...
To Theatre Graduate, Acting Can Help Change the World
May 15, 2017 Jarrett Poore sees the time honing his acting skills at UCF as more than just performing on stage. He sees it as a way to change the world.
UCF Ranked No. 2 Video Game School in North America by Princeton Review
May 15, 2017 The University of Central Florida’s video game graduate school ranks No. 2 in North America, according to The Princeton Review and PC Gamer magazine.
1st Generation Student Encourages Classmates to Give Back
May 15, 2017 Josh Goodridge, the first in his family to attend college, believes in the power of education so much that the senior already donates his time and money to UCF’s giving drive to financially help other students.