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 January 22, 2014 in News
Agricultural writer Barry Estabrook and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will present a program entitled “Tomatoland: Modern Day Slavery in Florida” as part of The University of Tampa Department of English and Writing’s Scholars’ Symposia.
Posted January 17, 2014 in News
The University of Tampa Entrepreneurship Center in the Sykes College of Business was recently awarded the Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Program Award from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) at its annual conference in Fort Worth, TX.
Posted January 15, 2014 in News
Carol Williams, the city of San Diego civic organist will perform “Organ Pops!” on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 2 p.m. at UT. The concert, which is free and open to the public, is part of the 2013-2014 PNC Bank Concert Artist Series at the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values.Posted January 14, 2014 in News
Martina Emme, a prominent German scholar working on Holocaust reconciliation, will speak at The University of Tampa on Thursday, Jan. 23. Emme, a descendant of Nazi officers, works with descendants of Holocaust victims to establish reconciliation and dialogue.
Posted January 14, 2014 in UT Life
For 25 years, Daniel Cox worked as a civil engineer, utilizing his degree and his minor in math. Now, one of the newly minted Master of Fine Arts in creative writing graduates, Cox plans to spend the next phase of his career writing short fiction.“One of the reasons I came to UT was because the program was new, like jumping off a cliff,” said Cox, who found the experience improved his craft. “I like being in a room with better writers. It makes me up my game.”
Cox was among the 19 students in the first cohort of UT’s low-residency MFA program who were celebrated during a hooding ceremony Jan. 11.