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 29, 2016 in News
Palm Harbor resident Tom Tiedemann has made supporting UT’s cybersecurity program a top priority by providing scholarships for students majoring in cybersecurity.
Posted September 28, 2016 in News
From Oct. 13–16, The University of Tampa will stage Lillian Hellman’s groundbreaking play, The Children’s Hour. Show times are 8 p.m. on Thursday–Saturday, Oct. 13–15, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 16. All performances will be in David Falk Theatre, 428 W. Kennedy Blvd.The Children’s Hour opened on Broadway in 1934 and ran for 691 performances, making Hellman a celebrity at the age of 29. At the time, the play was banned in London and Boston, and it was boycotted by the Pulitzer Prize selection committee because of its then-daring suggestion of a lesbian relationship.
Posted September 27, 2016 in News
For the 20th consecutive year, The University of Tampa has set another enrollment record. This year’s total — including graduates and undergraduates — is 8,310, up 3.4 percent from last year’s total of 8,037. This year’s total enrollment is more than triple the University’s enrollment of two decades ago.
Posted September 26, 2016 in News
Sam Ellison, chairman of EWI Construction and former CEO of Beck International, will receive the Tampa Bay Ethics Award from The University of Tampa Center for Ethics at a breakfast and ceremony on Friday, Oct. 7. The event begins at 7:30 a.m. in the Vaughn Center Crescent Club on the UT campus, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd.Leading the construction market as the No. 1 general contractor in the Tampa Bay area, Ellison’s company built UT’s Vaughn Center, Straz Hall, Brevard Hall and parking garage. Other notable Tampa Bay area structures include Howard W. Blake High School, Hillsborough County Services Center downtown, Rivergate Tower and Air Terminal C at Tampa International Airport.
Posted September 26, 2016 in UT Life
Millions of viewers will tune in to the presidential debates tonight and in the coming weeks to hear what the candidates have to say. But if the candidates want potential voters to remember their message, they should pay close attention to their behavior as well.In a recent study, co-authored with Texas Tech’s Erik P. Bucy, Zijian Harrison Gong, assistant professor of communication, examined the consequences of appropriate versus inappropriate nonverbal behavior displayed by candidates during the 2012 presidential debates. Their findings, “When style obscures substance: visual attention to display appropriateness in the 2012 presidential debates,” was published in Communication Monographs.