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News
Luis Martínez-Fernández now Trustee of College Board
November 2009
Luis Martínez-Fernández was installed as Trustee of the College Board on October 23 at the annual meeting of members of the College Board in New York City. He was also elected Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the College Board. The College Board's Trustees are responsible for assisting in legal and fiduciary decisions; approving the mission, strategic goals and objectives of the organization; establishing policies; and advising those responsible for the management of the organization.
Robert Thompson one of OBJ's "10 Businessmen to Watch"
October 2009
Orlando Business Journal names Robert Thompson among its "10 Businessmen to Watch." Thompson graduated from UCF in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and went on to become a founding partner at local marketing and public relations firm Thompson Wesley Wolfe.
Walters Awarded Grant for Virtual Fair Project
October 2009
Lori C. Walters was awarded a $1.47 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a 3D virtual recreation of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Virtual fairgoers of all ages will be immersed in an accurately modeled historical world with more than 140 pavilions on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and an array of arts and humanities exhibits. Discovery Points throughout the virtual environment will afford opportunities for in-depth engagement in STEM topics that will empower participants to explore the broader consequences of technological innovations. Project partners include the Queens Museum of Art and New York Hall of Science.
History Professor Publishes Book on the History of the American South Workplace
September 2009
History Professor Robert Cassanello has published Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 edited with Colin J. Davis with University Press of Florida. Visit the publisher's Web site for more information.
Vladimir Solonari Publishes Book on Holocaust
August 2009
History professor Vladimir Solonari published Purifying the Nation: Popular Exchange and Ethnic Cleasing in Nazi Allied Romania with Johns Hopkins University Press. A description of the book can be found on the Johns Hopkins University Press Web site.
Amy Foster Wins Arthur W. Thompson Award
April 2009
Amy Foster won the Arthur W. Thompson Award for the most outstanding article in the Florida Historical Quarterly published in 2008. Dr. Foster's article titled "The Gendered Anniversary: The Story of America's Women Astronauts" was published in the Fall Issue of Volume 87.
Peter L. Larson Awarded British Academy Followship
April 2009
Assistant Professor of history Peter Larson was awarded a 1-month British Academy fellowship from the Huntington Library for the 2009-2010 academic year.
UCF Graduate Wins Governor LeRoy Collins Award
April 2009
Deborah L. Bauer, a UCF graduate student, won the Governor LeRoy Collins Award for the most outstanding essay or research paper on Florida history produced by a postgraduate student in a master's or doctoral program at a college or university in the United States. Her paper was titled "'_in a strange place_': The Experiences of Colonial Women in the British Floridas, 1763-1784."
UCF Graduate Wins Herman and Celia Chapin Award
April 2009
Julio Raul Firpo, a UCF graduate student, was awarded the Herman and Celia Chapin Award and given the opportunity to present his paper at the Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting. His paper is titled "The Origins of Orlando's Puerto Rican Community."
Peter Larson: University Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
April 2009
Assistant Professor of history Peter Larson received the University Award for Excellent Undergraduate Teaching. Larson has made significant contribution to the UCF community by working with many campus organizations, including the Burnett Honors College and the President's Scholars Study Abroad Program.
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Hunter Shaw receives UCF Graduate Travel Award
February 2009
Hunter Shaw received a UCF Graduate Travel Award to present a paper at the Fifth Annual North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. The title of his paper is "For Home and Country: Confederate Loyalty in Western North Carolina," and it examines the concept of loyalty as it relates to North Carolinians in the Confederacy.