Tue Feb 1
UCF Moot Court teams had a strong showing at the American Moot Court Association’s National Championship Tournament, with one breaking into the top 16 nationwide. Four two-person teams from UCF qualified to compete in the national championship tournament January 21-23, which was held virtually. Three of the four teams made it to the elimination rounds…
Mon Jan 31
Shalece Kohnke, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in exceptional education, is one of 15 scholars nationwide named a 2022 DRK-12 (Discovery Research PreK-13) U.S. National Science Foundation CADRE Fellow. The Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) fellowship program, funded by the NSF, provides professional growth opportunities for students whose work focuses on diversity,…
Wed Jan 19
During a globally streamed ceremony at St. Catherine’s Church in Vilnius, Lithuania on December 29, Thomas Bryer, a professor of public administration, was honored by Gitanas Nauseda – President of the Republic of Lithuania – with a 2021 Global Lithuanian Award for contributions to scientific progress in the country. Bryer’s award represents the culmination of multiple…
Fri Jan 14
Thanks to the generosity of Diane Lee Eriksson ’77, her husband Larry Eriksson and their family, students majoring in elementary education and early childhood development will benefit from the newly created L.A. Lee Family Endowed Scholarship. The Eriksson’s goal is to assist students by allowing them to focus on their education and become the best teachers possible…
Thu Jan 13
For Aleesha Jahur ’21, it was a simple class in criminal justice that ignited her passion for the field – and led to a full-time role with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Jahur, who graduated this past summer with her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice with a certificate in crime analysis and crime mapping, recently…
Wed Jan 12
In episode 16 — the first of season two of Knights Do That — we speak with Michele Gill, a professor of educational psychology in the College of Community Innovation and Education. She shares her research in conceptual change and implicit beliefs, which play a role in what we value and how we create change in what…
Wed Dec 1
With an estimated 37.7 million people worldwide affected by HIV, World AIDS Day serves as a global-health endeavor to end the surrounding stigma and increase awareness. Observed each year on Dec. 1 since 1988, World AIDS Day encourages people to show support for those living with HIV, raise awareness for the disease, unite in the…
Wed Nov 17
University of Central Florida researchers are starting a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project to identify systemic gender inequities impacting university STEM faculty so that they can be addressed by the institution. The $300,000, two-year project will focus on UCF. The project will study STEM faculty’s perceptions of departmental culture through the frameworks of organizational justice and organizational…
Thu Oct 28
In their first in-person mediation tournament since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the UCF Mediation Team earned first place in both of the competition’s main categories. Nine members of the team – as well as team coach and visiting lecturer Christy Foley – traveled to Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia to participate in the…
Wed Oct 27
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Suncoast Chapter honored WUCF TV, Central Florida’s PBS station, with four Suncoast Regional Emmy nominations. The awards ceremony will be held virtually December 11, 2021. List of Nominees Meet the Helpers (category: Children/Youth (12 and under) Short Form Content) Grr-ific Neighbors special (category: Children/Youth (12 and under) Long Form…
Fri Oct 22
The 21 new inductees of UCF’s Scroll and Quill Society represent a broad spectrum of academic expertise, such as fiction writing, artificial intelligence, police-community relations, nursing and terrorist recruiting tactics on social media. The Scroll and Quill Society celebrates faculty members who for at least a decade have made scholarly contributions of impact to advance…
Wed Oct 20
Three faculty members who maintained high levels of research excellence and creative works during the past year of the pandemic earned the 2021-22 UCF Women of Distinction Awards from Faculty Excellence. The winners each receive a $1,000 professional development stipend from the Office of the President and are invited to a celebration in their honor…
Mon Oct 18
The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) recognized UCF’s counselor education program, as well as one of its faculty members, for exemplifying excellence and innovation with two awards in October. The counselor education program, part of the College of Community Innovation and Education, is the recipient of this year’s Robert Frank Outstanding Counselor Education Program –…
Wed Oct 13
UCF Pegasus Professor Naim Kapucu has been selected to join the National Academy of Public Administration’s (NAPA) 2021 Class of Academy Fellows. He is one of 39 leaders selected for the honor and will be inducted during the annual Academy Fall Meeting, which takes place virtually and in-person at five host sites across the country…
Tue Oct 12
I have worked in education for quite some time, and I am dedicated to using just about anything as an instructional tool. Current events, multimedia clips, song lyrics, memes — these are all ancillary materials that I will use to engage students and make content interesting and relevant. And I love a good object lesson;…
Tue Oct 12
Deshawn Chapman â11MEd â16EdD has always been passionate about addressing disparities. In Tampa, she entered her freshman year as a business major, with plans for a career helping to grow small business ownership in historically marginalized communities. However, she kept feeling a draw towards teaching, and soon changed her major to social science education. What she…
Fri Sep 24
With a grant from the National Science Foundation under their belt, researchers from UCF and public and private HBCUs are launching a study that will focus on the influence culturally relevant political messaging has on HBCU students. The team plans to examine the relationship between how political issues are identified, framed and disseminated to subsequently…
Fri Sep 24
A University of Central Florida researcher is part of a recently awarded $3.3 million study that aims to keep survivors of intimate partner violence safe while the person accused of intimate partner violence awaits trial. This pretrial period, when a judge decides if a person charged with intimate partner violence should be detained pretrial, is…
Thu Sep 23
Not many people can say they were able to turn their passion into a career, but Mary Annaliese Dehner ’20 gets to. Dehner, a dancer at heart, received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from UCF. Today, she’s in her dream role as a dance teacher at Midway Elementary School of the Arts in Sanford.…
Tue Sep 21
When William Moreto, associate professor of criminal justice at UCF, earned his bachelor’s degree in criminology, he never imagined his career would lead to fieldwork studying rangers in protected areas of Kenya, Nepal, Uganda and the Philippines. Moret’s interest in criminology (the study of criminal behavior) led him to Rutgers University, where he hoped to…