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 November 02, 2018 in UT Life
Blake Delgadillo ’21 lives on campus and has watched many of his peers refuse to look up from their mobile phones before entering a crosswalk. When his team was looking for a research idea in his oral communication course this semester, pedestrian safety seemed an obvious suggestion.“My fellow classmates and I noticed that there seemed to be ambiguous communication around pedestrian crosswalks on campus,” Delgadillo said. “We knew that this topic would be quite interesting.”
Posted October 31, 2018 in News
The University of Tampa’s Department of Speech, Theatre and Dance will present its annual Evening of Experimental Dance on Saturday, Nov. 10. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, located at 310 N. Boulevard.
This year’s presentation will follow the theme “Moving at a Crossroads,” which takes inspiration from the gallery’s fall art show, Pedro Pablo Oliva’s Cuba: HiStories. The program of will feature presentations by students from across the College of Arts and Letters, including interdisciplinary poetry and dance performances and movement vignettes by the dance program’s improvisation class.
Posted October 25, 2018 in News
On Friday, Nov. 2, The University of Tampa will welcome Peter Coviello, who will read from his new book, Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs, and discuss his process of turning painful experiences into art. The event, part of the University’s Scholar’s Symposia series, begins at 4 p.m. in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery and is free and open to the public.
Described as a “passionate, heartfelt story about the many ways we fall in love,” Coviello’s new book follows his happy marriage, his blindsiding divorce, and his fumbling post-marital forays into sex and romance as he considers what keeps us alive and the grace of pop songs.
Posted October 25, 2018 in UT Life
Delaney Bend ’19 spent a Wednesday afternoon packaging 190 prints into sleeves. The artwork belongs to several artists, including Larry M., an artist who is homeless she’s been working with all semester through a program called Art Space.
A collaboration between the Tampa Museum of Art, Hyde Park United Methodist Church/The Portico and the UT art therapy program, Art Space has helped several homeless artists find and release their inner creatives through a weekly gathering, sometimes at the museum and sometimes at The Portico, a café and meeting space in downtown Tampa dedicated to supporting homeless initiatives.
Posted October 24, 2018 in News
The University of Tampa will rebuild part of its Bailey Arts Studios on campus to host one of the most forward-thinking visual arts programs in the country, offering spaces for innovation and creativity amongst student and faculty inventors, designers, entrepreneurs and artists.Most notably, the project will include construction of a digital fabrication lab (the Fab Lab) that will be an entrepreneurially focused, collaborative maker-space for students and faculty to turn their ideas and dreams into prototypes and products. The space will include laser cutters, 3-D printers, computer numerical control (CNC) routers, large format printers, vinyl cutters and state-of-the-art computer technology.