Award-winning Artists: Announcing the 2015 J.R. Hopes Scholarship and Competition Winners
April 03, 2015 The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design proudly announces the winners of two award programs, the J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship and the J.R. Hopes “Eye for Broadway” Art Competition. Both awards are dedicated to nurturing young artists at UCF, encouraging them to make an impact in the Orlando community...
Fernández-Rubiera Presents at University of Oslo Conference
April 01, 2015 On March 9-10, Francisco Fernández-Rubiera and Christine Meklenborg Salvesen presented at the Traces of History conference/workshop at the University of Oslo. The paper presented, “V2 and Enclisis: A Uniform Analysis for Germanic and (Some) Romance Varieties,” provides a syntactic account to explain the connection between V2, a specific restriction on...
Women's Studies Student Selected to the President's Leadership Council
March 25, 2015 Amy Maitner has been selected for the UCF’s President’s Leadership Council. Maitner is one of 35 students selected for excellence in leadership, scholarship, and service to the university and the Orlando community. The President’s Leadership Council was established during the 1977-1978 academic year to recognize students who exemplify well-rounded excellence...
Digital Humanities Workshops by Dánielle Nicole DeVoss
March 18, 2015 The T&T Guest Speaker Series brought Dánielle Nicole DeVoss to campus in March to discuss innovative new directions in Digital Humanities. She conducted a workshop, "Composing Multimodal Projects,” and presented “Creative, Innovative, Digital, and Entrepreneurial: Constellating New Directions for Humanities Work.” Students, faculty and staff enjoyed learning how to engage...
Film Student Wins Graduate Teaching Award
March 16, 2015 Ben Lancaster will be honored with UCF’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award at the 12th Annual Graduate Research Forum on March 31, 2015. "I’m so grateful and humbled to receive this award,” says Ben, “and I hope it’s a testament to the great work that all of the TAs in SVAD...
UCF Film Graduates Sweep StarLite Film Festival
March 12, 2015 Several UCF graduates took home awards from this year’s StarLite Film Festival. Held February 26 – March 1 in Winter Garden, FL, the festival showcases micro-budget narrative films that investigate untold stories, express fresh perspectives and introduce new faces of cinema. Five alumni from UCF’s School of Visual Arts and...
Santana Presents Keynote in India
March 09, 2015 This past November, M.C. Santana was granted the opportunity to present the keynote address at the Media Youth and Values conference at the Holy Cross College in Tiruchirappalli, India. During her presentation, Creating the Whole Individual, Dr. M.C. Santana discussed the importance of allowing young people to lead and create...
SVAD Students Win Big at Orlando ADDYs
March 09, 2015 Several SVAD students were honored at the 2015 Orlando American Advertising Awards, also known as the ADDYs, receiving silver and gold honors including “Best Student” for senior Brandon Stoker’s packaging design. Winners include: Brandon Stoker – Best of Student, Gold for his Fantaisel Salt Packaging design. Silver for his Rich...
Folse Prestented at Illinois Bilingual Education Convention in Chicago
March 05, 2015 Keith Folse was invited to deliver a plenary address on March 1st at the 41st annual Illinois Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESOL) — Bilingual Education convention in Chicago. His talk "Why Being a Native Speaker Does Not Make You an ESL Teacher" addressed the skills and knowledge...
Milanés' Short Stories Make The Top 10 Books About Cuba
March 02, 2015 Two short story collections by Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés have been listed on the Top 10 Books About Cuba by The Guardian coming in at number four and five. The short stories, “Marielitos, Balseros, and other Exiles” and “Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You,” aim to show a different side of...
UCF Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band to Feature at the UCF Celebrates the Arts 2015 Festival
March 02, 2015 The UCF Wind Ensemble and UCF Symphonic Band will be featured April 12 in the UCF Celebrates the Arts 2015 festival. The bands’ 3 p.m. program is called Light & Space, and will include stellar songs in keeping with the theme of the festival’s opening night music and narrative of...
UCF Music Student Competing at the Chicago Brass Festival
March 02, 2015 UCF Sophomore, Joshua Toler (Music Performance, Trumpet), has been accepted to the final round of the Chicago Brass Festival Solo Competition held March 13-14 at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. Solo finalists were selected from an international recorded preliminary round and will compete in a live final round performance on Saturday...
T&T Guest Speaker Series: Understanding Graduate Research Production in the Digital Age
February 26, 2015 Guests from the University of Florida – Sophia Acord (Associate Center Director/Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology & Law) and Laurie Taylor (Digital Scholarship Librarian) – met with T&T students and faculty to discuss Open Access and Electronic Dissertations. Please click here to download the event flyer.
Women's Studies Faculty Affiliates Awarded LIFE Awards
February 24, 2015 On February 22, 2015, two Women’s Studies faculty affiliates were awarded this year’s LIFE at UCF Awards by the Center for the Success of Women Faculty. Winners included Meredith Tweed and Christine Hanlon, as well as two other members of UCF faculty. Meredith Tweed is a Women’s Studies instructor and...
Documentary to Look at Academic Freedom, Censorship in 1920s
February 24, 2015 “Filthy Dreamers,” a documentary that looks at the effort of students, faculty and the president of Florida State Women’s College to stand up for academic freedom and against censorship in the 1920s, will be shown at 1 p.m. Feb. 23, in the UCF Visual Arts Building, Room 132. The film...
April Anderson: Breaking the Archival Fourth Wall
February 24, 2015 April Anderson, University Archivist at the Milner Library at Illinois State University, presented a lively discussion for T&T students, faculty, and members of the UCF Library concerning Digital Archival Exhibition in the Digital Realm. Dr. Anderson also visited Dr. Barry Mauer’s class, Visual T&T, to discuss Citizen Curatorship of digital...
Dombrowski Wins Undergraduate Teaching Award
February 24, 2015 Matt Dombrowski has won the UCF College of Arts & Humanities Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. The award signifies a commitment to undergraduate education and affirms the recipient’s proven abilities as an excellent teacher. Dombowski is an Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts and Design. His work focuses...
Stoeckle Premieres Two Films at Berlinale
February 24, 2015 One of Germany’s first independent female filmmakers, Ula Stoeckl was invited to premier two films at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Stoeck, considered one of Germany’s most important filmmakers, was awarded the prestigious Konrad Wolf Film Prize for her lifetime achievement in 1999 by the Academy of Art...
Raimundi-Ortiz Presents on Wepa Woman at El Museo Del Barrio
February 20, 2015 On January 21, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz presented about the Wepa Woman at Diseño , a panelist discussion on the subject of using comic books and superheroes as vehicles for the exploration of identity. The panel took place at El Museo del Barrioin, New York City, and received federal funding from the...
Graduate Film Students Featured at Upcoming Festivals
February 19, 2015 Four graduate students in UCF’s M.F.A. film program will premiere films at upcoming festivals. Zachary Beckler, Maria Emilia Garcia, and Max Rousseau will screen their respective feature-length thesis films Interior, La Descorrupción, Pembroke Circle at the Starlite Film Festival. John Goshorn’s The Happiest Place on Earth will debut at Cinequest...