Tue Apr 14
Catherine Kaukinen, professor of criminal justice, recently received two career awards from the American Society of Criminology, including the Division of Victimology’s Bonnie S. Fisher Victimology Career Award and the Division on Women and Crime’s Distinguished Scholar Award. (Photo by Amy Floyd) According to the Department of Justice in 2014, four out of five women…
Fri Apr 10
Anew graduate certificate program is designed to prepare future special education teachers and speech-language pathologists through interdisciplinary learning to improve language and literacy services and outcomes for children with disabilities with high-intensity needs. The program is a partnership between UCF’s College of Community Innovation and Education and the College of Health Professions and Sciences. The…
Fri Apr 10
Orlando magazine’s April edition honors its selection of the region’s 22 Women of the Year, including one UCF dean and three graduates who “make a huge difference in the lives of countless people daily.” The unranked 2020 list includes educators, physicians, entrepreneurs and women in other fields who keep our community strong. Those with UCF…
Thu Apr 9
Kyler Gray held onto the philosophy that he was a student first. Kyler Gray doesn’t like to be bored. In high school, Gray was the student body president, the class president and the valedictorian. However, when he came to UCF as a pre-med student, he made a sweeping declaration: He would remain anonymous. Focusing on…
Mon Apr 6
During his time at UCF — 50 years and still counting — Chuck Dziuban says he didn’t feel like a pioneer as he taught, researched, mentored and directed programs at a young university that started just two years before he arrived — even though everything along the way was new. “Not at the time, but looking back, absolutely we…
Fri Apr 3
Each year during Women’s History Month, LIFE at UCF generously celebrates women faculty for their contributions. For 2020, the award criteria focused on commitment to do extraordinary things, designed to celebrate a successful initiative spearheaded by a woman faculty member. “LIFE at UCF has been honored to be a part of celebrating women faculty for…
Wed Apr 1
Julienne Miranda participated in every program the legal studies department had to offer while she was a student. Before she stepped foot on UCF’s campus, Julienne Miranda ’19 knew she was going to study law — and that she certainly wasn’t waiting until law school to start. In fact, her desire to pursue a degree…
Wed Apr 1
While standing on my balcony last week, I felt a great need to capture my thoughts about the recent health crisis affecting all of us. Everything around me was so still and peaceful; birds were chirping in the background and the afternoon shadows over the courtyard below helped me appreciate the contrasting sunny areas from…
Mon Mar 30
What would become the largest and most complex outbreak of the Ebola virus to date began in December 2013 with an 18-month-old boy. The outbreak would last for more than two and a half years, with more than 28,600 cases reported across West Africa and more than 11,325 deaths. As a then-geographic information systems (GIS) analyst at the Red Cross, Drishtie Patel…
Fri Mar 27
When Tameka Harrison isn’t working on her master’s degree in exceptional student education, she’s a reading intervention specialist for kindergarten through fifth grade students. Even though it’s only her second semester as a Project Bridges scholar, she already sees the professional impact of her experience. “Data from standardized assessments showed that students were having a…
Tue Mar 17
U.S. News & World Report today ranked 27 UCF graduate programs in the top 100 of their fields nationally, according to the publication’s 2021 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Seven of the programs are taught in the College of Community Innovation and Education, including UCF’s highest-ranking program, Emergency and Crisis Management, which was ranked No. 2 in the…
Mon Mar 16
As society continues to evolve, it’s imperative that academic institutions and educational opportunities evolve to support society’s ever-changing needs. Debuting in fall 2020, the social justice in public service graduate certificate will explore some of these changing needs of society. The 15-credit hour certificate encourages students to use an interdisciplinary approach to explore social needs…
Wed Feb 26
UCF was ranked today by the Peace Corps at No. 24 among large U.S. schools on the agency’s 2020 list of top volunteer-producing universities and colleges, the first time UCF has ranked on the agency’s Top 25 volunteer list. Currently 39 Knights are volunteering around the world, up from 31 last year. Since the agency…
Tue Feb 25
Abby Lemay ’15MNM awakens each day at 7 a.m. in order to arrive to the Rebuilding Together Central Florida office by 8:45 a.m. From there, the nonprofit’s executive director will attend impromptu meetings with her staff about upcoming events and programs, participate in phone meetings with current and future partners, work on grant applications and the…
Mon Feb 24
Speculation about where laws come from ranges from crediting judges and legal scholars to God. However new research co-authored by a University of Central Florida researcher and appearing in the journal Nature Human Behaviour today offers evidence that criminal laws come from an intuitive and shared, universal sense of justice that humans possess. “We sometimes think of…
Thu Feb 20
Alliyah Torres, who is in her freshman year pursuing a bachelor’s degree in elementary education, already has an idea about what it means to be a teacher. She comes from a family of educators. Her parents, brother and oldest sister are currently classroom teachers. Her sister, Trinity Torres, is a sophomore here at UCF and…
Wed Feb 12
The Center for Public and Nonprofit Management (CPNM) collaborated with the World Affairs Council of Central Florida, a network dedicated to educating and engaging Americans in international affairs and providing further education on global issues, to meet with a group of international nonprofit leaders. The interaction was coordinated as part of the International Visitor Leadership…
Thu Feb 6
We got an âA’ (actually, we got two)! The National Council on Teacher Quality recently recognized our teacher preparation programs in elementary education. Our Master of Arts in Elementary Education and Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education were listed in the council’s 2020 Teacher Prep Review as top-ranked programs in the nation that prepare teacher…
Thu Jan 30
“Creating opportunities for students to learn mathematics in authentic ways is key to positioning them as the problem solvers of tomorrow,” says Daniel Edelen â18MEd, who is pursuing his doctoral degree in education with a specialization in mathematics education at UCF. Edelen recently co-authored a feature article, “A STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)…
