Thu May 12
Business Knights and Baby Yoda made a winning team at this semester’s Great Capstone Case Competition. The MAN-dalorians team, featuring members Katherine Cueto (Integrated Business), Jack Boos (Finance), Hannah Thomas (Marketing) and Kenneth Colón (Accounting and Finance), earned first place and $3,500 on April 29 with their idea for an integrated customer service app for…
Mon Apr 25
Samuel Baker, an economics student with a passion for science, gardening and sustainability, teamed up with a group of friends to create Wriggle Brew, an organic worm tea fertilizer. The organic worm tea fertilizer is made by soaking worm-accelerated compost in fresh water to absorb valuable nutrients. “Containing all the vital nutrients for your garden, the resulting…
Thu Apr 21
Florida’s economic recovery must weather a “monetary policy hurricane” as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates and shrinks its balance sheet, writes Sean Snaith, nationally recognized economist and director of UCF’s Institute for Economic Forecasting, in his latest forecast for the Sunshine State. With the Federal Reserve making its first interest rate hike in three…
Tue Apr 5
In a business proposal showdown for $50,000 in cash, four student teams will deliver their best pitches to a panel of seasoned judges at the finals of the Joust New Venture Competition on Thursday, April 7, at 2 p.m. The event, presented by Echelon Fitness Multimedia, is open to the public and will take place…
Fri Apr 1
Marketing gets a bad rap, but it can create so much good. Mrudul Nilangekar has faith in people and says that’s why she is getting her Ph.D. in business administration in the marketing track. “Marketing is such an interesting force in the world,” says the India native. “It makes many people think of coercion or…
Tue Mar 22
Eight UCF business and computer science undergraduate students put their heads together to take first place at the second annual Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Battle of the Brains Competition, beating out 10 other universities and earning a $25,000 prize this past weekend in Austin, Texas. The HSI Battle of the Brains, sponsored by KPMG, is…
Thu Mar 17
On March 17 aerospace engineering alum Breanne Rohloff ’19 will settle into her 2016 Chevy Cruze and make her daily one-hour commute to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) where she works as an engineer. Rohloff’s car is an automatic because, she admits, “I don’t know how to drive a stick shift.” Somewhere in the same KSC parking lot, Dan Zapata ’15…
Wed Mar 16
The U.S. market is once again nearing full employment, but high oil and gasoline prices, rising inflation, labor shortages and a malfunctioning supply chain threaten the economic recovery — and that was before Russia invaded Ukraine, according to the latest U.S. Forecast from UCF’s Institute for Economic Forecasting. “The layer cake of economic problems we…
Mon Feb 21
Among her memories from childhood, Inez Long ’98MBA most vividly recounts two. In the first, she’s playing in the yard with her cousin. The cousin tells Inezshe’s really hungry. They go inside and find only a single banana to eat as a snack. Inez cuts it in half and keeps the smaller piece for herself. Later, Long’s mother asks,…
Fri Feb 18
Fairways to Leadership is a new RSO at UCF that aims to promote diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace while providing education and professional opportunities to its members. Leadership is at the forefront of the program whose mission is to develop the leadership abilities of college students from diverse communities using golf. Students are…
Fri Feb 11
The UCF College of Business will host a Field of Dreams-themed, 22nd annual Hall of Fame gala Thursday, April 14, from 6 to 9 p.m., at Rosen Shingle Creek. More than 600 College of Business alumni, faculty, students, corporate partners, and friends of UCF are expected to attend this signature annual event that honors the college’s most…
Mon Jan 31
Aunique new academic-industrial alliance between UCF and ficonTEC, a global leader in photonics manufacturing, is expected to bring a boost to the region and provide access to sophisticated industry production tools for students and faculty researchers. ficonTEC, a German-based company with locations in Europe and the Far East, is expanding to Central Florida — joining UCF’s…
Thu Jan 20
To showcase the efforts of two organizations leading the region in diversifying its economy, the UCF Business Incubation Program’s Downtown Innovation District and StarterStudio are moving to the center of Downtown Orlando. On Dec. 1, 2021 the programs will leave their Church Street Exchange space for a storefront property on Orange Avenue between Church Street…
Sun Jan 2
“âTwas the forecast before Christmas, when all âcross the state, those in need of a fridge would just have to wait. Just like the fruitcake from your aunt — inflation, supply chain woes and housing shortages will all linger, unwanted, through the end of next year,’ writes Sean Snaith, nationally recognized economist and director of UCF’s…
Fri Dec 17
Five business seniors who dubbed themselves Team Senioritis earned $3,000 in scholarship funding and the top spot at this semester’s Great Capstone Case Competition with their recommendation that competition sponsor Verizon utilize 5G network technology to improve airport security. Graduating seniors Ryan Bis, James Smith, Anthony Tran, Talia Vasquez and Katarina Vue pitched their plan to Verizon executives and…
Fri Dec 17
“âTwas the forecast before Christmas, when all âcross the state, those in need of a fridge would just have to wait. Just like the fruitcake from your aunt — inflation, supply chain woes and housing shortages will all linger, unwanted, through the end of next year,’ writes Sean Snaith, nationally recognized economist and director of UCF’s…
Fri Dec 3
Over the past eight years, UCF has participated in Giving Tuesday, a global day of generosity that was created in 2012 and takes place on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving. On Nov. 30 this year, more than 870 donors from all over the nation contributed over $1.16 million — marking UCF’s best giving Tuesday yet. “Philantrophy…
Fri Dec 3
Whether it’s solving the world’s biggest problems or investigating the potential of novel discoveries, researchers at UCF are on the edge scientific breakthroughs that aim to make an impact. Through the Research in 60 Seconds series, student and faculty researchers condense their complex studies into bite-sized summaries so you can know how and why Knights plan…
Wed Nov 24
UCF students Robert Burke, Owen Burns, Michael Bradford and Veronica Suarez won $1,000 each in the first Blackstone LaunchPad Ideas Competition, where contestants showcased their early-stage ideas. In addition to the cash prizes, Burke, Burns, Bradford and Suarez also earned automatic entries into the National Ideas Competition where they’ll compete for the chance to take…
Fri Nov 19
In the year 2020, we endured a worldwide pandemic, local lockdowns, and the “Great Toilet Paper Shortage.” The latter foreshadowed an ongoing sequence of shortages: lumber, refrigerators, meat, cars, and most recently, artificial Christmas trees. “History is being made before our eyes,” says Muge Yayla-Kullu, associate professor of supply-chain management at UCF. “What we’re experiencing…