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 December 02, 2016 in News
Come see a fresh take on The Wizard of Oz story when The University of Tampa stages City of Emeralds: A Live Radio Play on Friday, Dec. 9, and Saturday, Dec. 10. Both performances begin at 8 p.m. in the Reeves Theater on the second floor of the Vaughn Center and are free and open to the public.The production is the main focus of UT’s Spoken Word Performance Ensemble course (THR 244). Students audition for the production, and those who are cast in the show are enrolled in the course for up to one credit.
Posted November 30, 2016 in News
Get in the holiday spirit on Sunday, Dec. 4, at The University of Tampa’s annual holiday concert, Let Heaven and Nature Sing. There will be two performances, at 2 and 4 p.m., in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values. The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Doors open 30 minutes before the concert.
Posted November 30, 2016 in UT Life
UT juniors Ciara Myer and Emily Warner spend much of their time looking through a microscope. There are lots of steps prepping their experiments, coddling them along through various tests, before they get to the point of analyzing them on the glass slide.But whether their search is to find drugs to treat cancer or figure out better methods for health assessments of dolphins, they both share the same drive: a desire to make an impact.
Posted November 29, 2016 in News
UT Professor Rebecca White, director of the Lowth Entrepreneurship Center, will join a panel discussion following the Tampa screening of the documentary Mama Rwanda at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts.The documentary will be shown in the Jaeb Theater on Tuesday, Nov. 29. A VIP reception will be held at 6 p.m., and the screening – followed by the panel discussion – begins at 7 p.m.
Posted November 18, 2016 in News
The University of Tampa’s Sykes College of Business has been named for the first time as a best graduate business school by Bloomberg Businessweek in its annual ranking of 87 full-time U.S. MBA programs.
The ranking was based on data compiled from more than 1,000 recruiters, 15,000 alumni and 9,000 recent graduates.Ranked 78th, the Sykes College of Business did particularly well in surveys of alumni and current students. Only two other Florida business schools — the Hough Graduate School of Business at the University of Florida (46) and the University of Miami School of Business Administration (57) — were included in the ranking.