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 May 05, 2015 in UT Life
Seniors Bobby Starks and Jarrett McIntyre know what it means to serve. The two were Navy Search and Rescue Swimmers, Starks for seven years and McIntyre for six, before coming to UT.
Together the two veterans launched M.A.D. House of Tampa this semester, a business to help big corporations better utilize their veteran employees as well as working directly with veterans in career counseling and job placement services. They hope to continue to foster its growth after Saturday’s commencement.
Posted May 04, 2015 in News
The University of Tampa MFA in Creative Writing speaker series, “Lectores,” will feature seven nights of reading with a mix of award-winning visiting guests and UT’s world-renowned MFA faculty on June 18–25.
Posted May 04, 2015 in News
In a Business Insider online ranking of U.S. business schools that offer the best education for the price, The University of Tampa Sykes College of Business has been ranked No. 7.
The ranking set the Sykes College of Business immediately above the business school at the University of Notre Dame and below the University of California-Berkely’s business school. UT was also ranked higher than the business schools at Harvard University, Duke University and Ohio State University.
Posted May 01, 2015 in UT Life
After graduating this spring, Shani Bennett ’15 will serve a year with AmeriCorps before going to graduate school. Aryk Bingham-Hill ’15 will be a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, FL. And Mindy Huynh ’15 is set to begin pharmacy school at the University of South Florida.
These students are just three of several hundred who have taken part in the Helios Scholars program over the last four years, and their success is exactly what the program was designed to ensure. At next week’s May commencement, 115 students in this first cohort will all receive their diplomas.
Posted April 28, 2015 in News
From May 4-8, graduating fine arts students will exhibit their work at the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery and Bailey Art Studios, Room 123 at The University of Tampa. A closing reception is scheduled for Friday, May 8, from 7–9 p.m.
Each student will exhibit works in their area of expertise, including painting, computer graphics, graphic design, animation and mixed media.