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 April 16, 2018 in News
The always popular Spring Dance Happening will take place April 25–27 at The University of Tampa, featuring popular music and student dancers from all parts of the University community. All performances begin at 8 p.m. in UT’s Falk Theater, 428 W. Kennedy Blvd., and are free and open to the public.
Posted April 12, 2018 in News
On Friday, April 20, The University of Tampa will welcome Aisha Durham, associate professor of communication at the University of South Florida, who will present “Home with Hip Hop Feminism” as part of the Department of English and Writing’s Scholars Symposia series. The event 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.
Durham teaches black popular culture to explore the relationship between media representations and everyday life. She uses auto/ethnography, performance writing and intersectional approaches honed in black feminist cultural criticism to analyze representations of black womanhood in hip-hop media.
Posted April 12, 2018 in News
Victoria Sunseri ’18 has been awarded a 2018 Fulbright U.S. Student Research Award to Italy. She will represent the U.S. as a cultural ambassador while overseas, helping to enhance mutual understanding between Americans and the people in Italy.
Sunseri is one of 12 UT students who have been awarded Fulbrights since 2006.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.
Posted April 11, 2018 in News
On Wednesday, April 18, join The University of Tampa’s Vocal Performance Workshop for an Opera Cabaret, featuring selections by celebrated American composer Leonard Bernstein and more. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values, and is free and open to the public.
The performance will feature songs from Bernstein’s legendary West Side Story and Candide, along with exciting selections from Mozart, Handel, and Gilbert and Sullivan, accompanied by the UT orchestra.
Posted April 11, 2018 in UT Life
It’s large and looming and talked about every four years or so, and some University of Tampa students want to change that.
“The Congressional Budget Office projects that if the current spending is maintained, the federal debt held by the public will climb to 150 percent of the gross domestic product within the next 30 years,” wrote Rajul Mehta ’18 in an editorial in the Tampa Bay Reporter. “That is more than our country’s entire economic output. These dangerously high levels of debt threaten the economy the younger generation of Tampa Bay would inherit.”Mehta is leading a group of three others in the Up to Us challenge, a semester-long competition empowering students to educate their peers on the impacts of the national debt and what their generation can do to mitigate its effects.