Faculty
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Tue Nov 3
Two faculty members at the UCF College of Nursing have received the distinguished honor of fellows of the prestigious American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). Associate Professor Desiree DÃaz and Clinical Associate Professor Laura Gonzalez, who are among only 50 certified advanced healthcare simulation educators in the world, were inducted as fellows at the Academy’s annual conference held virtually Oct. 29-31.…
Tue Nov 3
In any election, there are many factors that can affect an election in one way or another. Prior to the 2020 Presidential election, Spectrum News 13 spoke with UCF’s Maria C. Santana, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, about the impact women have had on elections since they were first given the right to vote…
Mon Nov 2
Lisa Nalbone’s English translation of the short story “Rompecabezas” by Benito Pérez Galdós was commissioned by the Las Palmas, Gran Canaria University Press for publication. Nalbone is an associate professor of Spanish in the UCF Department of Modern Languages & Literature, This short story is part of a multilingual translation from the original Spanish. The publication…
Sun Nov 1
About half a million people in the United States know American Sign Language, but Bill Cooper, UCF’s only ASL instructor, is changing that – 250 students at a time. Cooper, who was born deaf, teaches nine sections of ASL 1 – 4, seven for the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at UCF and two at Valencia Community College. He has continued this pace for approximately the past five years, and his ultimate dream is…
Thu Oct 29
Joyce DeGennaro ’03 ’09BSN ’13MS is using her own personal fight against breast cancer to provide UCF students with rare, real-world learning opportunities. A UCF nursing instructor since 2013, DeGennaro regularly incorporates aspects of her cancer treatments into her coursework. These include recordings of invasive medical procedures and frank conversations about her health status. “Everything from my chemotherapy…
Thu Oct 29
The world has been watching the build-up to the U.S. presidential election for months now. The candidates and their platforms, the Electoral College and, in 2020, allegations of potential voter fraud are all of intense interest to international media. To find out what topics international media are interested in, we spoke with three faculty members…
Thu Oct 29
Updated Oct. 29 at 6:50 p.m. It’s been a busy day for UCF physics Professor Humberto Campins and the rest of the OSIRIS-REx mission team. Campins gave the science community an update about at the evolving NASA mission to collect an sample from asteroid Bennu and return it to earth. About 2 p.m. he addressed…
Wed Oct 28
Each fall, the university recognizes faculty who have made a national and international impact through their research, teaching and service, by inducting new members into the Scroll and Quill Society. What started as two different prestigious faculty clubs in the 1980s is now a recognition program for faculty of all disciplines. “This society is a…
Mon Oct 26
A UCF professor said she was motivated to find her calling after a dark period in her family. Kim Gryglewicz lost her first cousin, who she grew up with, to suicide just as she tried to build back a connection with him five years ago. She said the loss was very difficult and caused her…
Thu Oct 22
Keith S. Folse, Professor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in the UCF Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, published two books in September, bringing his total number of published books to 78. Enseñar con Zoom: Una GuÃa para Principiantes, from Wayzgoose Press, is the Spanish version of a previously-published book called Teaching with Zoom: A Guide…
Tue Oct 20
Gary Rhodes is an associate professor in UCF’s Nicholson School of Communication and Media and assistant director of the film and mass media program who is best known for his work on horror cinema. When he was 15, Rhodes says he started writing for a film magazine called Filmfax, and he’s been analyzing movies ever since. He isn’t entirely sure of…
Fri Oct 16
How do you make Zoom classes on biochemistry interesting? “You need a personality and an accent helps,” joked Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Stephen Lambert of his full-time foray into online classes due to COVID- 19. Dr. Lambert, who hails from the United Kingdom said he knew he had to pull out all the stops…
Mon Oct 12
Assistant professor Michael Muhammad Knight has recently written a new book, published by the University of North Carolina Press. Titled Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage, the book conceives a different understanding of the Prophet Muhammad’s body as it relates to the construction of prophetic masculinity and authority. Changing representations of the Prophet’s body…
Mon Oct 12
UCF psychology Professor Peter Hancock has been named the Aerospace Human Factors Association’s William Collins Award recipient for 2020. This is the second time Hancock has received this award for his scholarly work in the area of human factors. This award is for work he published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concerning the “Future…
Fri Oct 9
Thomas Bryer, a professor of public administration and program director of the Office of Downtown Community Engaged Scholarship, received more than $73,000 as a planning grant from Volunteer Florida to assist communities economically and financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. He will address the issues by launching an AmeriCorps program at UCF. “COVID-19 has revealed the ugly…
Thu Oct 8
Video conferencing has kept the remote workplace humming during this year’s pandemic, and it was partly made possible through the work of researchers such as Peter Delfyett, the 2021 winner of the prestigious Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Sciences. Delfyett, a UCF Pegasus Professor of optics and photonics, studies the application of semiconductor lasers…
Wed Oct 7
We hear “unprecedented times” often as the coronavirus pandemic unfolds through 2020 and into the next year. But someone with the long lens of history like Professor Emeritus Robert Bledsoe, Ph.D., a charter faculty member of UCF, can attest this is far from the first challenge the university has faced. “This university has weathered a…
Tue Oct 6
UCF School of Visual Arts and Design faculty and alumni are exhibiting their work at the Maitland Art Center as part of the New Works: An Artist-in-Action Group Exhibition which will be on view from October 9, 2020 – January 17, 2021. The Artists-in-Action program at the Maitland Art Center grants studio space to Central Florida-based artists each year. The 2019-2021…
Tue Oct 6
Professor Kathleen Richardson is featured in the August/September 2020 issue of ElectroOptics in and article “Making materials science work for all“ “It’s a âchemistry thing’ blended with a âpeople thing.’ What makes optical materials science so exciting is that the needs of any new optical system rely on the materials that make up its core. You can…
Mon Oct 5
As the COVID-19 pandemic highlights health disparities and the need to better acknowledge the social determinants of health, the College of Medicine has added two faculty members to its new Population Health Sciences Department. Drs. Elena Cyrus (left) and Karina Villalba (right) both come to UCF from Florida International University, where they did extensive research…
