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 25, 2016 in News
It’s smoke-free at UT.Beginning on Aug. 1, 2016, The University of Tampa will join the growing list of U.S. colleges and universities to ban all smoking and tobacco use on campus.
The policy, which was approved by the UT administration, bans smoking and use of tobacco of all types, including electronic cigarettes, chew tobacco, hookah, cigar and cigarette smoking. It includes all UT students, employees — including contractors — and visitors, and covers the entire 105-acre UT campus, including all academic and residential buildings, athletic facilities and fields, parking garages, open spaces and offices.
Posted January 25, 2016 in UT Life
Across Jude Chehab’s resume are the words director, cinematographer, writer. As a little girl growing up first in New York and Florida, then in Lebanon, her mother gave her three other words to weigh carefully, three words she would embrace and use to become the three on her resume today: woman, Muslim, Arab.“This immediate awareness of responsibility ignited a flame within me instantly,” Chehab ’16 wrote on her application for an upcoming film workshop. “It is a very rare feeling in life to feel ignited, to feel as though the entire world around you has just appeared and with every flame within you, you plan to face it.”
Posted January 22, 2016 in News
On Thursday, Feb. 4, The University of Tampa will welcome two-time Olympic gold medalist and ESPN analyst Michele Smith as part of its Today’s Entrepreneurial Women speaker series. The event begins at 4:30 p.m. in the John P. Lowth Entrepreneurship Center on the eighth floor of the Innovation and Collaboration Building, 820 W. North A St.The event, which includes a networking reception and tour of the Lowth Entrepreneurship Center following the talk, is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, however, and a reservation is required.
Posted January 21, 2016 in News
The University of Tampa’s Spring 2016 Honors Program symposia series kicks off on Thursday, Jan. 28, with a presentation by Ryan Cragun, associate professor of sociology. His talk, titled No One Expects a Transgender Jew: Religious, Sexual and Gendered Intersections, begins at noon in Reeves Theater on the second floor of the Vaughn Center.
All lectures are free, open to the public and held on the UT campus, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd.
Posted January 15, 2016 in News
The Lowth Entrepreneurship Center in The University of Tampa’s Sykes College of Business, has been awarded the National Model Program Award for undergraduate entrepreneurship programs by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship® (USASBE) at its annual conference in San Diego.National model program awards are given to colleges and universities that have developed and offer high quality and innovative programs, the purpose of which is to educate and train future generations of entrepreneurs. The awards are given for exemplary programs that reflect innovation, quality, comprehensiveness, sustainability, transferability, depth of support and impact.