Published: February 18, 2015
UT Speech Professor to Share Travel Stories, Ponder Purpose at Presentations Feb. 27–28
What is the purpose of travel, humanity, life — or toilets that cost money? On Friday, Feb. 27, and Saturday, Feb. 28, Chris Gurrie, a University of Tampa assistant professor of speech, will share stories from his travels during a semester-long sabbatical. The event begins at 8 p.m. in Reeves Theater on the second floor of the Vaughn Center, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., and is free and open to the public.
While traveling the world for three months in 2014, Gurrie wrote daily musings.
“I discovered a lot of things about myself and others: people are generally good, Americans are quite conservative, travel makes us richer (and poorer) at the same time and challenges can help us grow stronger,” said Gurrie. “None of these things are new on the travel-circuit. What was new for me was purpose.”
During the show, Gurrie will use audience interaction, song and story-telling in order to ponder purpose, search for shared experience with the audience and shared laughter about life.
For more information, contact Gurrie at cgurrie@ut.edu.
On Friday, April 17, a panel of four industry professionals will present the obstacles and challenges faced in today’s business environment related to whistleblowing.
The panel will be held at The University of Tampa Sykes College of Business, Room 234, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. This “Hot Seat Event” is sponsored by UT’s Center for Ethics. The public is invited, and there is no charge for the event.University of Tampa film students will screen their work at the first annual Moon Dance Film Festival at UT’s Reeves Theater on Tuesday, April 14, at 8:30 p.m.
Aaron Walker, assistant professor of communication, said the festival is an opportunity for UT students both to screen their work and to curate the best work of their peers.“It’s fully student-run, so it shows how deeply the students care about celebrating the strong work of their peers, but also shows how much desire there is for our FMA students to create venues of success for one another,” Walker said. “It’s a terrific collaboration, and will be a terrific party for film. Plus, the movies are great.”
The Sustainable Business Coalition of Tampa Bay Inc. and The University of Tampa Center for Ethics is calling for nominations for their annual Sustainable Business Awards, which will be held on Wednesday, June 10, at The University of Tampa’s Vaughn Center.
Now in its seventh year, the Sustainable Business Awards, sponsored by the Sustany Foundation, recognize and honor for-profit businesses in the Tampa Bay area that engage in practices that increase economic opportunities and improve the environment and community.