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 21, 2019 in News
Yerma, a classical play written by Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, will be presented by The University of Tampa’s Department of Speech, Theatre and Dance on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 28-30, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 31, at 2 p.m. All performances will be held in UT’s Falk Theatre, 428 W. Kennedy Blvd.
Gary Luter, professor of speech, theatre and dance, will direct the play.
Posted March 21, 2019 in UT Life
One of Nneka Jones’ goals before she graduates in 2020 is to do a portrait of UT President Ronald Vaughn. Having just captured the emerging artist award at the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, she might be one step closer to her goal.“I’d like to have my artwork in the school. It’s on my bucket list,” said Jones, a fine arts major with a concentration in printmaking and painting and a minor in marketing.
Posted March 20, 2019 in News
Game designers and digital media scholars Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux will present their research on videogames at The University of Tampa on Friday, March 29, as part of the Scholar’s Symposia. The presentation begins at 4 p.m. in the Trustees Board Room on the ninth floor of the Vaughn Center and is free and open to the public.
Boluk and Lemieux will present their research and excerpts from their new co-authored book, Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames. The book displays a range of practices that bend the rules from technical glitches to forbidden strategies.
Posted March 20, 2019 in News
In a ranking of MBA programs that stressed “fact based criteria,” The University of Tampa’s Sykes College of Business was placed in the “Tier One” out of 144 schools in 25 countries worldwide. Additionally, UT’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program was ranked 34th out of 91 schools in the Tier One of EMBA programs.
The ranking was compiled by CEO Magazine in an effort to “cut through the noise and provide potential students with a performance benchmark for those schools under review.” The factors (and percentage weighting) for rankings included quality of faculty (34.95), international diversity (9.71), class size (9.71), accreditation (8.74), faculty to student ratio (7.76), price (5.83), international exposure (4.85), work experience (4.85), professional development (4.85), gender parity (4.85) and delivery methods (3.8).
Posted March 19, 2019 in News
The Dozier Winds, the woodwind quintet music performance team of the 282nd Army Band, will perform at The University of Tampa on Monday, March 25, from 10-11 a.m. The concert and master class will be held on campus in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values and is free and open to the public.