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 March 13, 2019 in News
Novelist Jonathan Lerner, a founding member of the Weather Underground, will present a reading on Tuesday, March 19, as part of the Writers at the University series. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, and is free and open to the public.
Lerner will reader from his novel, Swords in the Hands of Children, which a memoir about his youthful radicalism. In his story, Lerner also writes about the counter culture among the group known as the Weather Underground or Weathermen, a radical left-wing domestic terror group active in the 1960s and 1970s which led a series of bombings in the U.S.
Posted March 12, 2019 in News
Posted March 11, 2019 in News
The community is welcome to view the laser cutters, 3-D printers, computer numerical control (CNC) routers, large format printers, vinyl cutters and state of the art computer technology that make up The University of Tampa’s new digital fabrication lab (the Fab Lab), at an open house on Friday, March 22, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Posted March 11, 2019 in News
Anna Auerbach, co-founder and co-CEO of Werk, will give a presentation at The University of Tampa as part of the Today’s Entrepreneurial Women Speaker Series on Wednesday, March 20. Her presentation begins at 1:30 p.m. in the Lowth Entrepreneurship Center, located on the eighth floor of the Daly Innovation and Collaboration Building. This event is free and open to the public.
Auerbach’s company, Werk, is the first and only people analytics platform that helps companies build cultures through data.
Posted March 11, 2019 in News
While bail as a pretrial release mechanism has been around since our nation’s beginning and is protected in the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, its continued use in the present day has been questioned by critics of the historically-based pretrial release mechanism.
However, in a recent study, David Krahl, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at The University of Tampa, found that in terms of sheer cost alone, the use of surety bonding costs Florida taxpayers absolutely nothing in terms of taxpayer dollars, while the use of other forms of unsecured pretrial release has cost more than $95 million dollars over a three-year period.