Tue Mar 9
As students in the Master of Athletic Training program prepare for graduation and their next steps, a new mentorship opportunity will ease their transition into the workforce. The initiative matches students in their final semester with athletic trainers in the field to guide them through their first year as professionals. Mentors will not only continue to build on skills the…
Fri Feb 26
It is our pleasure to announce that Scott Schenker, head athletic trainer for Lake Highland Preparatory School has been selected as our February 2021 Preceptor of the Month. Schenker is a highly engaged athletic trainer committed to promoting the mission, vision, and values of the athletic training profession. His dedication shines through as a preceptor…
Thu Feb 25
Twenty years ago, landing people on Mars seemed like sci-fi, but with commercial spacecraft launching into space almost every month and NASA’s Mars Perseverance landing on the Red Planet last week, sending astronauts to Mars and beyond is actualizing into reality. “When the idea of astronauts actually getting to Mars became realistic, there was a…
Tue Feb 23
Lift every voice and sing. The unity call of the Black National Anthem is also part of the mission of UCF’s Gospel & Cultural Choir. For many Knights, the Gospel & Cultural Choir provides a welcoming space and a sense of community and belonging on campus. For the past four decades, it has also given…
Tue Feb 9
With schools offering virtual learning and limiting visitors in classrooms due to the pandemic, the UCF Listening Center had to reinvent how to deliver listening and spoken language services to preschoolers in a deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) class at Lake Como Elementary located in the Orange County School District. In normal times, a clinical educator and graduate students would visit the class once a week to provide listening and spoken language services and support the special education teachers who lead these classes. The program enhances the skills of children who…
Mon Feb 8
Four teams of seniors in the College of Engineering and Computer Science will help drive innovation by working with UCF Go Baby Go! to enhance the technology used in its adaptive ride-on toy cars. The students included representatives from all disciplines in the college; mechanical, computer and electrical engineering and computer science. Each year, seniors choose a final project; a “real-world” challenge that needs their ingenuity to solve. Under the guidance of engineering faculty and…
Fri Jan 29
Keith Brazendale, assistant professor in Health Sciences, studies obesity in children, particularly how daily “routine” and “structure” can impact healthy weight in kids. It’s a passion he always had but took time to realize. He started college as a finance and accounting major. Although he found success in his studies, he was left questioning how he was going to balance this type of work with finding fulfillment and meaning in everyday life. “I love numbers,” Brazendale…
Mon Jan 25
The recently released licensure exam from the UCF DPT Class of 2020 place the cohort’s first-attempt pass rates and mean scores above both the state and national averages. Based on the two-year first-attempt pass rate rankings by the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy, the UCF DPT Program is within the top 5% of programs nationally.…
Thu Jan 21
For the month of January 2021, we celebrate Preceptor of the Month, Tessa McEvoy. As the assistant athletic trainer for UCF men’s soccer and women’s tennis, students are impressed with the way McEvoy gives 100 percent to everything she does. Whether it is conducting evaluations, creating individualized patient rehabilitation plans, or preparing comprehensive records, her attention…
Tue Jan 19
Service-learning in a digital classroom poses a significant challenge to the element of human interaction, especially for social workers. Though showing flexibility in a challenging situation is a hallmark of a social worker. UCF Social Work Professor Denise Gammonley’s high-impact course SOW 4645: Social Service for the Elderly successfully showed that service learning, albeit digitally, can still…
Thu Jan 14
Our faculty pursue big ideas and share what they learn by publishing their research to advance the profession. As part of an institution designated as “very high” research activity by the Carnegie Foundation, our published research exemplifies our goal to make a collective impact. Here are the most recent publications by UCF College of Health…
Thu Jan 14
The residency faculty of UCF and Orlando Health Neurologic Residency received multiple awards at the state and national level this award season. Kristen Cezat, PT, DPT, NCS was recognized by the Florida Physical Therapy Association as part of the Outstanding PT/PTA Team Award for the state of Florida. Cezat is the lead residency mentor in the…
Tue Jan 12
The University of Central Florida and Orlando Health’s neurologic residency program’s second resident, Brittany Rohan, PT, DPT, NCS, successfully passed the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABOTS) Neurologic Clinical Specialist (NCS) examination. The results were released in June 2020 after the board examination in March. Rohan is now a board-certified specialist in neurologic physical therapy and…
Tue Jan 12
The University of Central Florida and Orlando Health’s neurologic residency program’s third resident, Olivia Berry, PT, DPT has been selected to be a recipient of this year’s Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy’s Early Career Professional Award. The award recognizes new professionals who are members of the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy and show potential to make…
Mon Jan 11
By Megan Pabian Matt S. Stock, an associate professor of physical therapy, has been named as the director of the UCF Institute of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation Science. The institute is the research enterprise of the School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy and supports the mechanistic and translational research by faculty and students in the…
Thu Dec 17
Maybe they were right, Greg McCrae briefly thought back in early 2017. Maybe all those football coaches who hadn’t recruited him—all the while suggesting something without actually saying the words—truly believed he wasn’t good enough. “I’ve always had a chip on my shoulder from not really being recruited much in high school,” says the Knights running back…
Wed Dec 16
As the semester draws to an end, Health Sciences students from five sections of the Applied Health Research Methodology class participated in an online symposium of nearly 100 attendees to showcase their final project – a research proposal poster. The final project represented a cumulation of everything the students learned in the course: analyzing research,…
Wed Dec 9
School of Social Work Associate Professor Reshawna Chapple has done much throughout her academic career to address inclusion and diversity among faculty and students. Chapple’s recent selection as UCF’s Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence is a well-deserved acknowledgement of her hard work and impactful presence at UCF and in the Central Florida community. Her new role as fellow will…
Mon Dec 7
A faculty member in the Department of Health Sciences has taken the idea of magic in the classroom to a whole new level, theming her online Introduction to Pharmacology class after the Potions class in “Harry Potter.” Martha Garcia-Stout, a health sciences lecturer (and self-declared Slytherin), casts her own spell over the online course to make the…
Fri Dec 4
Six Ph.D. students in the Division of Kinesiology have been awarded scholarships from the National Strength and Conditioning Association. David Boffry, Nick Clark, Kylie Harmon and Ryan Girts are recipients of the Challenge Scholarship, which is awarded to NSCA members seeking either an undergraduate or graduate degree in a strength and conditioning-related field. Erica Goldstein is the recipient…