From internships to student achievements to recognition of The University of Tampa faculty and institution as a whole, the following is a running archive of UT press releases, called News Articles, and feature stories, noted as UT Life.
Posted January 04, 2017 in News
David Gudelunas, currently professor of communication at Fairfield University, has been named by The University of Tampa as the dean of the College of Arts and Letters (CAL).As dean, Gudelunas will oversee the departments of art; communication, English and writing; languages and linguistics; music; philosophy and religion; and speech, theatre and dance.
Posted March 22, 2016 in News
The University of Tampa’s annual Juried Student Art Exhibition in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery is an opportunity to see fresh, innovative work created by students. The exhibit opens Friday, March 25, and runs through April 20. There will be an opening reception at the gallery on Friday, March 25, from 7–9 p.m.Included in the exhibition are paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, ceramics, sculpture, digital media, animations and mixed media.
Posted March 09, 2016 in UT Life
As a young kid, teachers, friends and family members would default to Lázaro Saavedra whenever they needed something sketched. He had an innate ability, and their encouragement inspired him to study the craft. Today he is one of Cuba’s most respected living artists.“You enter into another dimension on that white sheet of paper, and it’s magical,” said Saavedra. “The world outside you disappears.”
Saavedra is one of seven renowned and provocative contemporary Cuban artists featured in the University of Tampa’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery exhibit “Growing Up in Neverland,” which runs until March 18.
Posted March 04, 2016 in News
Don Morrill, associate dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at The University of Tampa and Dana professor of English, received the silver medal for poetry in the 2015 Florida Book Awards for his volume of poetry, Awaiting Your Impossibilities (Anhinga Press).
Posted January 25, 2016 in UT Life
Across Jude Chehab’s resume are the words director, cinematographer, writer. As a little girl growing up first in New York and Florida, then in Lebanon, her mother gave her three other words to weigh carefully, three words she would embrace and use to become the three on her resume today: woman, Muslim, Arab.“This immediate awareness of responsibility ignited a flame within me instantly,” Chehab ’16 wrote on her application for an upcoming film workshop. “It is a very rare feeling in life to feel ignited, to feel as though the entire world around you has just appeared and with every flame within you, you plan to face it.”