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 01, 2017 in News
The University of Tampa’s Fall 2017 Honors Program symposia series will kick off Monday, Sept. 14, with a presentation by Dan Berger, who teaches comparative ethnic studies and U.S. history at the University of Washington Bothell. Berger’s talk, titled “Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era,” begins at 4 p.m. in Reeves Theater in the Vaughn Center on the UT campus.
Posted September 01, 2017 in UT Life
Floating around the British Virgin Islands while snorkeling sounds like a relaxing and indulgent way to spend the summer. But for Ally Marter ’20 and Matt Gamache ’20, it was a lot of hard work.As members of the staff at SeaTrek, Marter and Gamache lived on boats all summer, sailing three voyages with a total of about 150 high school students. The camp focuses on scuba diving, sailing and marine science.
Marter was up at dawn and worked until late helping craft an educationally inspirational experience for the students. Gamache assisted as the SeaTrek photographer, also leading some lectures on marine science, photography and videography.
“Incredible is a good word to describe it,” Marter said. “It’s a mixture of being the coolest job in the world, the most gratifying, amazing thing. It’s also the hardest, most stressful job.”
Posted August 29, 2017 in News
As part of orientation on Aug. 25, new University of Tampa students had the opportunity to exchange their old T-shirts from other universities and colleges for a new University of Tampa “Spartan Spirit” T-shirt.Overall, students turned in 278 T-shirts from institutions including Ohio State University, University of Florida, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Syracuse University and numerous others. Now, those T-shirts will be donated this week to Metropolitan Ministries.
Posted August 28, 2017 in News
Ronald L. Vaughn, president of The University of Tampa, has been awarded the 2017 William M. Burke Presidential Award for Excellence in Experiential Education.
This award is presented by the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) and funded by The Washington Center for Academic Internships and Seminars (TWC) in memory of TWC’s founder William M. Burke. It recognizes a sitting college president who has made significant contributions to experiential education and exemplifies Burke’s commitment to college students through support of experiential education on campus and in the community.
Posted August 28, 2017 in News
The University of Tampa has announced its 2017-2018 Sykes Chapel Concert Artist Series. This series of free, public concerts has become one of UT’s most anticipated and well-attended events on campus.
“We are delighted to, again, be able to bring artists of such caliber to Tampa Bay, and to reassert our commitment to the power of the musical arts to uplift, enrich, provoke and restore,” said Haig Mardirosian, artistic director of the Sykes Chapel Concert Artist Series. “We strive to bring artists who are not only excellent, but have the knack of communicating deeply with our audiences.”