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 March 22, 2019 in News
Duncan Macmillan, part-time professor of music at The University of Tampa, will perform a piano recital on Sunday, March 31. The recital begins at 3 p.m. in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values and is free and open to the public.
Macmillan will perform works written by the classical composer Franz Schubert and will feature sonatas and other piano works.
Posted March 21, 2019 in News
National Geographic photographer and Associated Press photojournalist David Guttenfelder, who helped open an AP bureau in North Korea, will speak at The University of Tampa on Monday, March 25, at 10 a.m.The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Reeves Theater in the Vaughn Center on campus.
Posted March 21, 2019 in News
Yerma, a classical play written by Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, will be presented by The University of Tampa’s Department of Speech, Theatre and Dance on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 28-30, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 31, at 2 p.m. All performances will be held in UT’s Falk Theatre, 428 W. Kennedy Blvd.
Gary Luter, professor of speech, theatre and dance, will direct the play.
Posted March 20, 2019 in News
Game designers and digital media scholars Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux will present their research on videogames at The University of Tampa on Friday, March 29, as part of the Scholar’s Symposia. The presentation begins at 4 p.m. in the Trustees Board Room on the ninth floor of the Vaughn Center and is free and open to the public.
Boluk and Lemieux will present their research and excerpts from their new co-authored book, Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames. The book displays a range of practices that bend the rules from technical glitches to forbidden strategies.
Posted March 20, 2019 in News
In a ranking of MBA programs that stressed “fact based criteria,” The University of Tampa’s Sykes College of Business was placed in the “Tier One” out of 144 schools in 25 countries worldwide. Additionally, UT’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program was ranked 34th out of 91 schools in the Tier One of EMBA programs.
The ranking was compiled by CEO Magazine in an effort to “cut through the noise and provide potential students with a performance benchmark for those schools under review.” The factors (and percentage weighting) for rankings included quality of faculty (34.95), international diversity (9.71), class size (9.71), accreditation (8.74), faculty to student ratio (7.76), price (5.83), international exposure (4.85), work experience (4.85), professional development (4.85), gender parity (4.85) and delivery methods (3.8).