UCF CAH promotes Creative Careers through Florida IT Performance Grant
March 03, 2014 The Creative Career Speaker Series is a collaboration between the UCF College of Arts and Humanities (CAH) and UCF’s School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD), recipients of a Florida IT Performance Grant. Rudy McDaniel, Assistant Dean for Research and Technology for the College, noted that “the Speaker Series was...
Destined for the Stage
March 03, 2014 Thanks to having three sisters who liked watching musicals, Rob Stack, ’07, grew up watching them too. As a kid, he found himself drawn to Grease 2. “I know. It’s a horrible movie with a campy, cliché depiction of high school,” he says. “But, I loved every minute of it....
Theatre Lecturer Receives Life @ UCF Award
February 27, 2014 Theatre Lecturer Sybil St. Claire is a recipient of the 2014 Life @ UCF Award for UCF Women Faculty Excellence in Academic Partnerships. She was awarded for the creation of interACTionZ: a queer youth theatre for social change. interACTionZ is a partnership between Theatre UCF, the Zebra Coalition, the Orlando...
UCF Film Wins Best Documentary Award
February 26, 2014 The film The Committee won the award for Best Documentary at the Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford on Feb. 15. The Committee was directed by faculty members Lisa Mills and Robert Cassanello. The 24-minute documentary was produced during the fall 2011 semester by a Honors Advanced Documentary Workshop...
Theatre UCF Student Wins Regional Competition for Dramaturgy, Advances to Nationals
February 14, 2014 University of Central Florida student Elle Sullivan has won the Southeast regional competition for dramaturgy at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and will be heading to Washington D.C. to compete at the national level this spring. Sullivan, a junior majoring in Theatre Studies and minoring in Music, says...
UCF Alum Flourishes on New York Art Scene
February 13, 2014 In a culture that tends to fixate on fame and fortune, it is easy to overlook the real success achieved by everyday people living their dream. UCF alum Elana Eda Rubinfeld is one of those people. After graduating from UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design, Elana moved to New...
Texts and Tech Program Hosts Workshops on How Learning Works
February 12, 2014 UCF Texts and Technology hosted two workshops for the program’s Graduate Teaching Associates. Led by Eric Main, Associate Director of UCF’s Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning, the sessions were based on the book How Learning Works: Seven Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan Ambrose, et al. The workshops...
InMedia publishes Mauer article
February 12, 2014 An article by Barry Mauer entitled “Control Room and the Staging of War” was recently published by InMedia, a french Journal of Media and Media Representations. Read the article online here. InMedia documents the study of media and media representations in the English-speaking world. The journal focuses on press, photography,...
UCF Collaborates with ROBOTIS in Robotics Workshop
February 11, 2014 On January 18 at the annual Otronicon expo in the Orlando Science Center, UCF’s HCI Lab and CREATE teamed up with ROBOTIS to hold an inaugural teacher’s workshop for STEAM learning with robots (http://hci.cah.ucf.edu/roboticsworkshop). ROBOTIS is known globally for making stand outs in the field of robotics. In 2011, DARwIn-OP,...
UCF Students Send Holiday Greetings in Spanish to U.S. Troops
February 11, 2014 During the fall semester, students in Yilaisa Seijas’s Spanish 1120 and 1121 courses created holiday cards in Spanish to send to women and men serving abroad. Custom greeting cards were mailed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations. Seijas’s students were recognized by the president and co-founder of For the Troops,...
Amelia Mackarey receives 2014 Order of Pegasus Award
February 10, 2014 Congratulations to Amelia Mackarey, a recipient of the 2014 Order of Pegasus Award. This award is the most prestigious award given by UCF. Amelia is an undergraduate major in both English/Literature and Biomedical Sciences and is working with Dr. James Campbell on her HIM thesis Representation and Imagination of the...
Madelyn Flammia Wins Technical and Scientific Communication Award
February 06, 2014 Madelyn Flammia has been honored with a CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award for her article, “Preparing Technical Communication Students to Function as User Advocates in a Self-Service Society.” The article appeared in Volume 42 Issue 3 of the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. Flammia’s work was recognized in...
New UCF Public Art Designed to be Temporary
February 05, 2014 The latest piece of art on UCF’s main campus won’t last forever — by design. The “pop up” sculpture, a project by senior studio art major Lea Fales, is meant to exist only for a short period. “Untitled,” which Fales created over a five-week period for Associate professor Scott F....
Alumna receives Writing Grant from National Endowment for the Arts
February 05, 2014 UCF alumna Kelle Groom recently was one of just 38 writers to receive a $25,000 Creative Writing Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Groom received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing/Poetry in 2008 and has been making waves in the literary world ever since. The...
Adele LaBrake Retires After 35 Years of Service to UCF
February 05, 2014 Adele LaBrake worked at the University of Central Florida for 35 years, and for 25 of those she was a staple in the Music Department. On Friday, January 31, 2014, Adele retired from the university. During her time at UCF she was the Administrative Assistant to more than 10 different...
Retired SVAD Professor Exhibits Among Art Giants
January 27, 2014 Recently retired professor David Haxton is among 40 artists exhibiting at the Museum of Modern Art featured in the exhibit Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New. His film “Overlapping Planes” is on display alongside artists including Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris and John Baldessari. Haxton’s film is on...
Adriana Nieves Recipient of Burnett Honors College Scholarship
January 22, 2014 UCF senior music major Adriana Nieves is the recipient of a $ 1,000.00 scholarship award from the Burnett Honors College at UCF for her HIM (Honors in the Major) Thesis proposal, which was submitted during the Fall 2013 semester. Her thesis, “Madama Butterfly: the Mythology, or How Imperialism and the...
UCF Hosts Game Competition at Orlando Science Center's Otronicon Expo
January 21, 2014 The Orlando Science Center is holding its annual Otronicon video-gaming expo this weekend, and part of its draw is a 48-hour competition organized by UCF to create a video game for a virtual reality game system. The 20 chosen competitors, which have already been placed on four teams, will be...
UCF Alum's Screenplay To Premiere at Sundance
January 08, 2014 The One I Love, a film written by Justin Lader (Film B.F.A. ’06), will premiere at the 30th annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The quirky comedy stars Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss as a troubled couple, while Ted Danson plays the therapist urging them to take a...
Trumpet Ensemble to Perform at FMEA Conference
January 08, 2014 The UCF Trumpet Ensemble has been invited to present a clinic andperformance at the Florida Music Educators’ Association conference in Tampa on January 9. The session, “Superior Choices: A Survey of Exemplary Trumpet Ensemble Literature from the FBA S&E List”, will introduce new works for trumpet ensemble and offer techniques...