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 08, 2016 in News
Research is typically thought of as a pursuit for faculty or graduate students, but participating in a research project as an undergraduate gives students a better understanding of their field and the opportunity to develop relationships with faculty.From April 22–29, the University will celebrate undergraduate research at UT with a series of events.
Posted April 07, 2016 in News
From April 21–24, The University of Tampa will stage the award-winning musical Dogfight. Show times are 8 p.m. on Thursday–Saturday, April 21–23, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 24. All performances will be in Falk Theatre, located at 428 W. Kennedy Blvd.The musical begins on the evening of Nov. 21, 1963. Three young Marines who are scheduled to ship out to Vietnam in the morning set out for a final night of debauchery in San Francisco. But when Cpl. Eddie Birdlace meets Rose, an awkward and idealistic waitress he enlists to win a cruel bet with his fellow recruits, she rewrites the rules of the game and teaches him the power of love and compassion.
Posted April 06, 2016 in News
The University of Tampa will welcome award-winning author Terese Svoboda on Tuesday, April 12, as part of the Writers at the University series. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery and is free and open to the public.A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Svoboda is the author of six books of fiction and five books of poetry. Cleaned the Crocodile’s Teeth is a translation of Nuer song, a South Sudanese language. Her most recent novel, Bohemian Girl, was named one of the 10 best 2012 Westerns by Booklist and an Historical Book of the Year finalist in Foreword. Publisher’s Weekly praised her as a “fabulous fabulist” for her novel, Tin God, and The New York Post called her memoir, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, “astounding.”
Posted April 06, 2016 in News
Erica Dawson, UT associate professor of English and director of the low-residency MFA program in creative writing, recently won the 2016 Poets' Prize from the West Chester University Poetry Center.The West Chester University Poetry Center awards the prize annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. A committee of 20 to 25 internationally renowned poets nominate approximately 50 books and, after several rounds of consideration, choose a winner.
Posted April 06, 2016 in UT Life
Six UT students have a daunting task ahead of them — figuring out how to help women in rural India who suffer from a condition caused by prolonged childbirth that leaves them with health problems and social stigmas.As participants in the 2016 Emory Global Health Case Competition, UT’s team will spend April 8¬–9 in Atlanta pitching their ideas for a solution against 23 other universities, including University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Yale and Harvard. The topic, which was just announced April 2, is “Restoring Women’s Dignity: Preventing and Treating Obstetric Fistulas in India.”