Wednesday, February 07, 2024

  • Knights Write (Recurring Event)

    Student Union: Pegasus Ballroom

    Join us for Knights Write! This two-day event celebrates excellence in writing at UCF. Attendees will have the opportunity to view poster presentations displaying writing research projects, attend various panel presentations that discuss writing-related issues and ideas, and celebrate award-winning student work.  This is event is hosted by the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, which contributes a vertical writing curriculum …

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  • Government Contracting Overview (Recurring Event)

    Virtual

    Federal, state and local government procurement is the largest target market in the world. The question is usually not “Does the government buy what you are selling?” It is more “Can you be competitive enough and relentless enough to position your business to win government contracts?” If you think you can be competitive, then government contracting may be a good …

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  • Knights Write Poster Presentations

    Student Union Pegasus Ballroom

    Students from the First-Year Composition program and undergraduate students in Writing and Rhetoric courses present (multimodal) posters representing their thoughtful research on a range of topics, including the importance of literacy and language, the rhetoric within diverse communities, embodied texts, the impact of influential texts and more. Attendees can view posters, listen, learn and ask questions to student presenters.

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  • Type Out Loud (Recurring Event)

    UCF Art Gallery

    Type Out LoudCurated by Ashley Taylor & Dori Griffin Broadside: A single sheet of paper printed on one side only. AKA: poster. Broadsides have been a popular ephemeral format for distributing news, announcements, advertisements, social commentary, and ballads for centuries. This exhibition highlights the social role broadsides play in communicating messages to public audiences. Designed to be plastered onto walls …

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  • Using Copilot for Research Productivity

    Virtual

    Are you a research faculty member who wants to improve your productivity and efficiency in coding? Do you want to learn how Microsoft Copilot can help you write code faster, summarize papers and wordsmith your proposal? If yes, then join us for this session where we will introduce you to Microsoft Copilot with Commercial Data Protection, a powerful AI assistant. …

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  • Knights Write: Understanding Writing Across Communities

    Student Union Pegasus Ballroom

    What do dungeons and dragons have in common with World of Warcraft, architecture, front desk agents and deaf YouTube communities? They’re all sites where people use rhetoric, writing, and literacies to accomplish tasks and meet community goals. In this panel presentation, first-year student writers share how tools of discourse communities such as genre, digital communication, and embodied writing, allowed them …

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  • Welcome Wednesday: University of North Texas

    Virtual

    Presentation: Grad School Search Presenter: Dana Mordecai Academic Advancement Programs (AAP) prepares undergraduate students to pursue advanced degrees and increase their awareness and knowledge of the graduate school application process. Welcome Wednesday Graduate School Series is an opportunity for students to connect virtually with a graduate school recruiter. Below is the session agenda: Overview of University of North Texas graduate programs and …

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  • Learn to Dance: Afrofusion

    RWC@Downtown: Group Exercise Studio

    Learn to dance AfroFusion! AfroFusion is a blend of African, Caribbean, and hip-hop dance styles. This beginner class is open to all skill levels. It is a great way to learn new dance moves, exercise, and get your heart pumping as you dance along to African music. After the class, there will be free food! Registration is open. Walk-ins welcome. …

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  • Knights Write: Showcasing Published Student Writers

    Student Union Pegasus Ballroom

    This panel brings forward writers and student editors from the peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal Convergence/Rhetoric.

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  • Knights Write Keynote: Dr. Sheila Carter-Tod

    Student Union Pegasus Ballroom

    Welcome Dr. Sheila Carter-Tod as she tells a story — a sort of hero’s journey. In her presentation, she'll trace her experiences with AI usage and will explore how she has knowing (and unknowingly) considered what a great tool of assistance and generative power AI could be. Then, she'll share how she had to wrestle with and critically consider the …

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  • Google Cloud: High-performance Computing in Google Cloud

    Virtual

    This hands-on training session will include: Best practices in creating clusters in minutes with the HPC toolkit, allowing you to run your most intensive workloads on the latest CPUs, GPUs and high-performance storage. Help managing costs as you scale with budgets and committed use discounts. Save up to 91% with Spot VMs for flexible workloads. Presented by Volker Eyrich.

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  • Knights Write: The UCF Writing Center Experience

    Student Union Pegasus Ballroom

    The University Writing Center (UWC) provides members of the UCF community with individual and group peer consultations at any stage of the writing process. In this session, a panel of experienced UWC student consultants share experiences and perspectives they’ve gained from working in the center. This session includes discussions of how and why they became writing consultants, what they’ve learned …

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    Adult First Aid/CPR/AED Class (Recurring Event)

    RWC Wet Classroom

    The Recreation and Wellness Center (RWC) offers American Red Cross Adult CPR/AED, First Aid Blended Learning classes. The Blended Learning class includes an online portion (approximately two to three hours long) and an instructor-led class skills session (approximately two hours long). The online portion must be completed prior to attending the in-class skills session. To register for this class please call 407-823-2408, or walk …

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  • Academic Conference Survival Guide (Recurring Event)

    Trevor Coulborn Hall 201: TCH 201 and Virtual

    Attending a research conference is a wonderful opportunity that can create more opportunities and more connections. Learn more about how to make the most of these conferences! 

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  • Knights Write: Integrative Learning & Writing and Rhetoric

    Student Union Pegasus Ballroom

    This roundtable session features students offering short PechaKucha-like presentations of the visual learning pathways that they developed in their Professional Lives and Literacy Practices course. Designed to help students intentionally plan and connect their learning across a range of experiences, the learning pathways are used by students to track their learning and receive feedback from advisors, mentors and peers. The …

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  • Knights Write: (Re)“Inventing the University”

    Student Union Pegasus Ballroom

    David Bartholomae’s widely read pedagogical text Inventing the University has influenced the teaching of college composition for nearly four decades. In his article, Bartholomae suggests that writers build bridges through commonplace with language. While the article considers how novice writers construct texts for the university, this frame serves as a lens to consider how graduate students move from the role …

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  • UCF Women's Basketball vs. Cincinnati

    Addition Financial Arena

    The UCF women's basketball team will host Cincinnati at Addition Financial Arena. For the most up-to-date details, including ticket information, please visit ucfknights.com/sports/womens-basketball.

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  • Knights Write: Network Sense of Rhetoric & Composition

    Virtual

    This session features graduate students hosting short presentations about the network sense mapping projects they created in the Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium course. Network sense, popularized in composition studies by scholars such as Derek Mueller, is defined as a means of understanding disciplinarity through visual methods. Whether you’re a seasoned rhetorician or someone unfamiliar with the field, we invite you …

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