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UTjournal
The Publication for The University of Tampa SPRING 2019
Doing Battle for Business
Cybersecurity grads step into the fray
president’s message
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EDITOR
Leigh Dittman, a first-year student from Lutz, FL, has www.ut.edu/utjournal
wanted to be a nurse since she was 7 years old. That’s partly
because she’s no stranger to hospitals, as she suffers from
brittle bone disease and is prone to fractures. But with a
service dog, a wheelchair and a can-do attitude, she’s quickly
becoming no stranger to UT.
Like any prospecti
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news of note
“The new spaces will also benefit the hundreds of
news of note
Electron Microscopy Students Study Red Tide, See
news of note In Full Color Exhibition honors
As consumers have increased access to content, ad
news of note UT Baseball Celebrates Rene Mart
Basketball Coaches Reach Milestones Coach Schmi
news of note Support When Needed Most
Releasing the Artist Within Art Therapy Students
news of note spartan sports The UT
It all came down to the last set. The play
BY KILEY MALLARD ILLUSTRATION BY JOEY GUIDONE
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“Crime has switched from I van
the physical domain to the cyber domain.” —Ken Kn
From right, cybersecurity majors Ashley Newsome a
“We want people to have confidence in what we do
SUPERSTITIO SPARTAN As odd as they may seem fr
US S BY TOM KERTSCHER ILLUSTRATIONS BY PHIL WRI
“Rituals are an essential part of being a s
“If I have something to eat on the day that we wi
A NOT SO The Hon
FIGURE BY MICHELLE BEARDEN PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX MC
“When she walks into the room, it lights up. We a
Those two years with a lightened work load
lectured throughout the country and in Latin Amer
In 2004, former President George W. Bush nominate
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alumni report
alumni report and her family, including so
launched a new primary volleyb
alumni report named an assistant U.S.
three-year term. Shay is director of Tra
teacher at Riverview High Dana
its first class this summer and is and the
IN MEMORIAM Alumni Florence Rogers Hurn ’40 Joe M
Travis Masarti ’16, Michelle Karangu ’15 and Alex
GASP A RILLA Pre-Parade BRUNCH 2019 PHOTOGRAPHY
The Tampa Bay Alumni Chapter of the UT Alumni Ass
What matters most at UT? YOU.
People. Opportunity. Impact.
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