UCF Celebrates the Arts Proposal deadline extended
September 07, 2017 The Steering Committee for UCF Celebrates the Arts is now accepting event and exhibit proposals for the 2018 and 2019 festivals.
UCF Community Veterans History Project receives The Anne J. Caudal Foundation Grant
September 06, 2017 The UCF Community Veterans History Project, coordinated by the History Department’s Dr. Barbara Gannon, has been awarded the Anne J. Caudal Foundation Grant. The Anne J. Caudal Foundation’s grant helps to fund the UCF CVHP’s efforts to collect the stories of veterans in the Central Florida community as well as...
Hsu as Guest Pianist for US-China Piano Festival in Northwest China
September 06, 2017 UCF Piano Professor Yun-Ling Hsu was invited as the guest pianist for the Second US-China Piano Festival held in Ürümqi (Xinjiang Province), Northwest China from July 28 to August 5, 2017. The largest city in China’s western interior, Ürümqi has been a multi-ethnic city and was a major hub on the Silk...
That First Labor Day
September 02, 2017 Associate professor of History Robert Cassanello discusses the origins of Labor Day and how the holiday has evolved over the last 135 years.
Imagineering The Future
September 02, 2017 Disney Imagineer, James Moore, uses his experience as a Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) alumnus to create amazing, immersive places for Disney guests.
Returning Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students celebrate the beginning of fall term
August 31, 2017 The Women’s and Gender Studies program sponsored the reception “Chocolate, Chat and Coffee” for Faculty and Junior Affiliates on May 30th. The event was a collegial reception providing a space to share research and ongoing projects with each other. The next social event is a Wine and Cheese scheduled for...
History Professor receives Community Based Research Grant
August 31, 2017 Dr. Rosalind Beiler, Associate Professor of History, received a Community Based Research Grant from the Office of Research and Community Engagement at the Burnett Honors College to partner with History Revealed, Inc., a historical research organization that focuses the public education of lesser-known groups of people from the past. The...
SVAD Professor's Internationally Recognized Projects
August 30, 2017 Matthew Mosher, assistant professor in UCF’s School of Visual Arta and Design (SVAD), and his projects are gaining international recognition: His project, Tributaries of Our Distant Palpability, was installed at the Sound and Music Computing conference in Espoo, Finland. The interactive sculpture responds to changing light levels with bubbly music...
Faculty Wanted as Guests on Radio Show
August 29, 2017 Reagan Smith, a history adjunct professor, is offering College of Arts and Humanities faculty members an opportunity to be on his radio show, “Florida Roundtable.”
English Professor’s Prize Winning Book of ‘Harrowing’ Poems
August 29, 2017 Terry Ann Thaxton, a professor in the Department of English, won Truman State University Press’ 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for her third book of poems, Mud Song. Each year, TSUP receives about 500 manuscripts that are screened and judged by a nationally known poet. Kevin Prufer, author of...
GPA Awards New Grant to University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities for Building Bridges with Language and Culture in Russia
August 28, 2017 The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program in the U.S. Department of Education has awarded an amount of $91,795 grant to the University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities.
History Undergrad Awarded Integrative Learning Scholarship
August 28, 2017 Laurel Schafer sees integrative learning as a path to career success and so far, it is paying off for her. The senior history major was recently awarded a Quality Enhancement Plan’s What’s Next: Integrative Learning Scholarship.
CFE Federal Credit Union and FAIRWINDS Credit Union Support Theatre UCF
August 16, 2017 The UCF School of Performing Arts is pleased to announce that CFE Federal Credit Union and FAIRWINDS Credit Union are supporting Theatre UCF as joint sponsors of the 2017-18 season. This sponsorship will help diversify the school’s theatre programming by introducing students to different genres, and new as well as...
SVAD Artist Develops Fabric-Gaming Interface
August 16, 2017 Slate Magazine discusses some innovations in making fabric, featuring SVAD assistant professor Anne Sullivan’s project, Loominary. Loominary is a game system that uses a tabletop loom as the controller for the games. The games are written in Twine and the choices in the game are shown in distinct colors. The player...
Student's Comic Book Dream Becomes Reality
August 15, 2017 UCF senior Branden Hall hopes that one day Zeek St. Cloud finds his true purpose in life – but he knows that’s going to take thousands of years. Hall, who is majoring in creative writing and advertising/public relations, and his brother Horacio are enabling Zeek on his journey, and recently...
New UCF Music Professor to Rock the Classroom – and Stage
August 10, 2017 New School of Performing Arts professor Tommy Harrison – who started playing guitar in his early teens, wrote his doctoral thesis on Van Halen, and signed with Atlantic Records last year – hopes to teach his students “to be champions of good music, not music that can simply make money.”
UCF Students Gain Insight Through Service-Learning
August 09, 2017 In Summer 2017, Dr. Maria Santana and Dr. Alvin Wang brough students to Mexico for an incredible experience. Read more… http://www.cah.ucf.edu/news/ucf-students-gain-insight-through-service-learning/ In June, a group of University of Central Florida students and faculty members traveled to San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico for a service-learning program at a Tzotzil school...
UCF Hosts STARTALK Program for the Third Year in a Row
August 07, 2017 Dr. Alla Kourova, Associate Professor of Russian and TESOL at the College of Arts and Humanities has been awarded a STARTALK grant for the third year in a row. Dr. Kourova’s proposal, “Preparation of a Business Trip to Russia” has been selected for funding as part of the STARTALK 2017...
A Generous Gift to Languages at UCF
August 03, 2017 Russian immersion student Julia Rosengren is looking forward to the growth of languages and fluency at UCF through fellow student participation and her recent generous gift to the College of Arts and Humanities. After visiting Moscow, Rosengren became infatuated with the country and was eager to learn more, which led...
Stella Sung Honored as Trustee Chair
August 03, 2017 On July 20, the UCF Board of Trustees honored Pegasus Professor of Visual Arts and Design Stella Sung as one of the three new Trustee Chairs.