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 October 12, 2018 in News
Brad Schiff, a University of Tampa alumnus, animator and Academy Award–nominee who has worked on films such as Coraline, Corpse Bride and ParaNorman, will lead a Q-and-A session after a screening of Coraline at UT on Friday, Oct. 19.
Posted October 12, 2018 in UT Life
Taking advantage of every opportunity helped Melody Morales ’19 find her way from on-campus job to internship to department director, all by her third year at UT.
“It’s crazy,” said Morales, a management major from Orlando, FL, who is the human resources director at Pronto Progress, a software development firm. “I still think about it and am like wait a minute, this actually happened.”
Posted October 11, 2018 in News
Hal Ackerman, a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, author and co-chair emeritus of the UCLA Screenwriting Program, will speak at The University of Tampa on Thursday, Oct. 25, and Friday, Oct. 26. Both events will be held on the 11th floor of Jenkins Hall on campus, and both are free and open to the public.
On Thursday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. Ackerman will present a lecture entitled “Story Is Everything: How To Make Your Story Sing.”On Friday, Oct. 26, at 10 a.m. Ackerman will conduct a screenwriting workshop entitled “Writing Scenes Better Than You Have Ever Written Before.”
Posted October 10, 2018 in News
The Re/Frame Film Series, presented by The University of Tampa’s Department of English and Writing, will continue on Wednesday, Oct. 17, with a screening and discussion of the documentary film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which features the Chauvet Cave in Southern France, containing the oldest human-painted images yet discovered. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Reeves Theater on the second floor of the Vaughn Center and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
The documentary features filmmaker Werner Herzog alongside a small crew gaining exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet Cave. In order to preserve the art, the public is only allowed to enter the site during a two-week period in the year. Examining the 30,000-year-old drawings, Herzog discusses with scientists and art scholars how the artwork represents humanity's earliest dreams.
Posted October 10, 2018 in News
On Oct. 23, The University of Tampa’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery will open Fissures and Cracks, an exhibition of visual works by the homeless of Tampa Bay, including Janet Saunders and Larry M. The exhibition will also feature The Faces of a Million Meals, a photography portrait series by Tim Kennedy, UT professor of communication, originally created for Trinity Café. The exhibition runs through Nov. 4.
The works in the exhibition were created through Art Space, a partnership program of the UT art therapy program, the Tampa Museum of Art and Hyde Park United Methodist Church/The Portico. The Art Space program provides opportunities for homeless individuals to explore the arts at the Tampa Museum of Art, then provides them with art supplies to create their own visual works with the assistance of UT art therapy students at The Portico in downtown Tampa.