Vie Wins Chuck D. Dziuban Award
April 21, 2014 Stephanie Vie is the 2014 winner of UCF’s Chuck D. Dziuban Award for Excellence in Online Teaching. Vie will receive an iPad tablet along with a stipend to attend the 2014 Sloan-C Asynchronous Learning Networks Conference in Orlando. The Dziuban Award is a peer-reviewed selected honor. The award committee consists...
Writes of Spring Puts Young Students' Words Into Play
April 16, 2014 The 2014 Writes of Spring, a collaborative writing and theatrical production involving the UCF Theatre for Young Audiences, will be presented April 22-23 at the Orlando Repertory Theatre (REP). The 11th annual event is a writing contest designed to support literacy and promote creative expression. Each year The REP accepts...
Kourova Wins Multiple Faculty Awards
April 16, 2014 Alla Kourova is the winner of multiple faculty awards this spring. Most recently, she was honored for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at both the college and university level. Kourova received the 2014 University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Previously, she was one of four college-level winners from the Arts &...
Grad Student Featured in Comic Art Journal
April 15, 2014 Gary Dufner is a teacher at the International Academy of Design & Technology in Orlando. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cartooning from the School of Visual Art in New York City. Gary is also a graduate student in UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design. While taking...
Ice-Cold Oscar
April 14, 2014 After twice applying for Disney’s talent development program, Mo Hassan, ’11, finally received the news he’d been hoping for. He packed up his car and drove more than 2,500 miles across the country from his home in Bradenton, Fla., to the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, Calif. “They offered...
Film by UCF Student to Premiere at Florida Film Festival
April 10, 2014 Where Is Alice?, a short film written and directed by award-winning director Zachary Beckler, premieres this weekend at the Florida Film Festival. Zachary is a Film B.F.A. graduate and current M.F.A. student in UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design. The film will screen at 2:00pm on Sunday, April 13...
Donor Plans Major Gift to UCF Architecture Program
April 07, 2014 In 1963, Florida governor Farris Bryant signed a bill that created a new state university in Orange County. With Florida Technological University scheduled to open in the fall of 1968, there was much work to be done. Central Florida architect Frederick G. Owles was hired to lay out the vision...
Partnerships Celebrated at President's Circle Reception
April 07, 2014 Members of the UCF President’s Circle – donors who make annual gifts between $1,000 and $24,999 – were acknowledged for their contributions to the university last night at a reception in the UCF Art Gallery. Surrounded by a collaborative show entitled “The UCF S.T.E.A.M. Exhibition” – which presents paintings, posters,...
Dissertation Research Award For Texts & Technology Ph.D. Students
April 04, 2014 The Texts & Technology program, the UCF Center for Humanities and Digital Research, and the UCF College of Graduate Studies announced a new award program available to students at the dissertation phase of their research in the T&T program. Five awards of up to $3,000 each will be made for...
Coming this Fall: B.A. in Writing and Rhetoric
April 02, 2014 On March 27, the UCF Board of Trustees approved a new bacholor’s degree in Writing and Rhetoric. The new program is the first of its kind in Florida and was designed to address workforce needs by producing graduates who are proficient in analyzing, creating, editing and adapting text. Surveys of...
Meet UCF English Professor Who Balances Teaching, Writing and Family
April 02, 2014 “Serious writer” and “One of our very best young writers” are among the praises that flank the back sleeve of The Heaven of Animals: Stories, a collection of short stories by David James Poissant, or Jamie, an assistant professor of English at UCF. Poissant’s first book, released in March, is...
'War Horse' tour stars UCF grad Michael Wyatt Cox
April 01, 2014 Michael Wyatt Cox’s Florida childhood provided an unexpected boost to his career. The actor, starring in the touring production of “War Horse,” grew up in Jupiter Farms, west of the turnpike in Palm Beach County. “I grew up around horses,” says the University of Central Florida graduate, 26, with a...
Award-winning UCF film Featured in Orlando Sentinel
April 01, 2014 “The Committee,” a documentary by University of Central Florida students and professors, tells part of its shocking story: how in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Florida college students and teachers were pulled out of class and questioned for hours — not about their politics but about their private lives,...
Alum's Short Film to Screen in New York
March 27, 2014 UCF Film alumni Benjamin Pearson (B.A. Cinema Studies 2007) will screen his short video Former Models at the Art of the Real 2014 film series hosted by The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York on Thursday April 24th at 7:00 p.m. in the new landmark state-of-the-art Elinor Bunin...
Animation Alum's Oscar-Winning Effort
March 18, 2014 Recent graduate Mohanned “Mo” Hassan is one of the animators behind Disney’s latest box office smash Frozen. The film has been honored with a host of awards including Best Animated Feature at the 2014 Academy Awards. Hassan is a member of the Visual Effects team at Walt Disney Animation Studios...
Pat Rushin: Making The Zero Theorem
March 14, 2014 Pat Rushin discusses his first feature film and the screenplays that inspired his work in the latest edition of Pegasus magazine. Rushin is the screenwriter behind The Zero Theorem, the latest film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon, and Tilda Swinton. The Zero Theorem is a futuristic fantasy...
Short Film by UCF Grad Screens at Florida Film Festival
March 14, 2014 Gabrielle Tillenburg’s short film Fantasy Land will be screening during the Florida Film Festival in Winter Park next month. The film follows the UCF alumna’s journey to revisit Disney’s Magic Kingdom and explore her childhood relationship with her now-deceased father, with the hope of discovering whether those memories were just...
Public Invited to View UCF Student Art Inspired by Science
March 13, 2014 A unique showcase featuring scientific research as it has been interpreted by student artists will be open to the public from March 27 through April 4. The UCFSTEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) exhibit presents paintings, posters, prints, photographs and 3D artworks created by UCF fine arts students in...
Giordano invited to conference in Italy
March 12, 2014 Paolo Giordano, Neil E. Euliano Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, was invited to a conference/workshop at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center titled “Transcending Borders, Bridging Gaps: Italian Americana, Diasporic Studies, and the University Curriculum.” Eighteen professors of different disciplines, nine from the United States and nine from...
Vie Examines Digital Activism in New Journal Article
March 12, 2014 Stephanie Vie examines “slacktivism” in an upcoming online journal article. According to Vie, the Human Rights Campaign Marriage Equality logo is an important example of how seemingly insignificant moves such as adopting a logo and displaying it online can serve to combat microaggressions, or the damaging results of everyday bias...