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 September 19, 2018 in News
On Monday, Sept. 24, The University of Tampa’s Faculty Woodwind Trio will perform. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values and is free and open to the public.
Posted September 18, 2018 in UT Life
When Kaitlyn Gengler ’19 opened her suitcase after traveling back from her internship this summer, the whiff of fish nearly knocked her back.“I opened my suitcase, and it was nasty,” said Gengler, who was a marine mammal fellow for Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, where for nearly three months she cleaned and scrubbed pools and prepped frozen herring, capelin and giant salmon to feed the resident mammals. “I would go to the grocery store after I was working all day, and people would give me side looks, and I was like, ‘I know I smell bad.’ But now I like that smell, because it reminds me of good memories.”
Posted September 17, 2018 in News
The University of Tampa’s new Institute for Sales Excellence has been listed as a “Notable Sales Program” in Sales Education Annual 2018.
The 23 notable sales programs listed were described as being within schools that “provide opportunities for students to obtain some classroom training and/or practical experience specific to professional sales.”
Posted September 14, 2018 in News
The University of Tampa will screen the Peabody Award–winning documentary Deej!, about a nonspeaking young man’s dreams of autistic civil rights, on Tuesday, Sept. 25. The screening, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. in the Reeves Theater on the second floor of the Vaughn Center and will be followed by a presentation by the producer and writer of the documentary, DJ Savarese. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
Filmed over six years, Deej! follows Savarese as he makes his way through high school and dreams of college, confronting the terrors of his past, obstacles to inclusion and the sometimes-paralyzing beauty of his own senses.
Posted September 14, 2018 in News
On Wednesday, Sept. 19, The University of Tampa will welcome Irish Consul General Shane Stephens for a discussion on “Ireland and its European Future: European Policy and Current Events.” The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Plant Hall Grand Salon and is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
During the talk, Stephens will discuss topics including why America still needs the European Union and the Irish bridges to Europe.