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Thu May 14
A longtime affiliate of UCF and skilled materials engineer and scientist, Les Kramer, Ph.D, will be inducted into the 2020 class of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame for his lifetime of patents and creations. Since his move to Orlando in 1983, Kramer has been in partnership with UCF. He sits on the UCF advisory…
Thu May 14
Associate Professor Mindi Anderson, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CHSE-A, ANEF, FAAN, one of the world’s leading healthcare simulation experts, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL). Anderson was elected to vice president of operations of INACSL, and officially will begin her two-year…
Thu May 14
UCF Faculty Excellence is proud to announce this year’s recipients of the Teaching, Research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning incentive awards. These annual awards recognize the contributions of faculty who deliver high-quality undergraduate and graduate educations; advance the body of knowledge in their field through research, scholarship and creative activity; and use evidence-based methods…
Wed May 13
A group of runners from the Department of Physics are using exercise for a temporary escape during quarantine. The runners represent the scope of the department — from faculty to accounting — but they all agree exercise does wonders for both their physical and mental health. “Running has been my escape from the house,” said…
Mon May 11
Since coming to UCF in 1994, DeLaine Priest has played an integral role in raising the university’s retention and four-year graduation rates to all-time highs. DeLaine Priest wants students to believe that nothing is unattainable – you just need a plan. As the associate vice provost for Student Success and Advising, Priest is spearheading efforts to innovate…
Mon May 11
As a longtime member of the Orange County Domestic Violence Task Force, Maxine McGregor ’13 MSW, instructor and director of the master’s in social work program, has a passion for helping men and women who feel trapped in unhealthy relationships – and for the people who help them. In one of her first domestic violence cases, the woman eventually reconnected with family members who became…
Wed May 6
(Illustrations by Nathan Holic ’02 ’07MFA) I. Breakfast Under Quarantine This is my family. There are five of us, and in ordinary times we pretend that we have it all together. (We don’t, but it’s fun to pretend.) I’m an associate lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, teaching four classes each semester, and…
Wed May 6
Professor Shin-Tson Wu’s students Tao Zhan and Yun-Han Lee win JSID’s Outstanding Student Paper Award for their paper “Highâefficiency switchable optical elements for advanced headâup displays.” There is only one such award each year, and this is the fourth consecutive year that Dr. Wu’s students have won this award.
Wed May 6
Dr. Magdalena Pasarica, associate professor of medicine, is the recipient of the UCF College of Medicine 2020 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning award. The $5,000 scholarship recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge and teaching effectiveness. A board certified family medicine physician with a Ph.D. in nutrition, Dr. Pasarica joined the medical school in…
Tue May 5
Frank Guido-Sanz (fifth from left) poses for a photo with fellow members from the National Disaster Medical System’s Trauma and Critical Care Team. (Photo courtesy of Frank Guido-Sanz) Sometime in the next few weeks, UCF nursing Assistant Professor Frank Guido-Sanz will have 12 hours to drop everything, grab his jump bag and travel to wherever he’s deployed as a member of the National…
Mon May 4
Agreat university is built by great faculty, and this year’s group of promoted and tenured faculty are the reason behind UCF’s academic excellence. Thirty-three were granted the title professor, a marker of an exceptional career in academia. A university’s excellence hinges on the strength of its faculty as scholars and as teachers. “This class of…
Fri May 1
Janel Cosby ’04, audiologist and clinical lecturer in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, is preserving, protecting and enhancing peoples’ hearing. As a child, she always wanted to pursue a career in medicine. Her interest in audiology was piqued when her mother, a nurse, knew a family who had three deaf children; the children’s parents…
Fri May 1
From Dr. Michael D. Johnson, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs I remain grateful for how our faculty have adapted and supported our students during this historic semester in the wake of COVID-19. We do not yet know how the pandemic will impact our fall semester, including our classes and our athletics events.…
Mon Apr 27
When Kevin Mercer, an instructor in the History department and double alumnus of UCF, offered his students an extra credit assignment about COVID-19, he figured his students would have creative responses, but he wasn’t expecting the assignment to go viral. However, when he shared the assignment on Twitter, it garnered national attention and he has since…
Fri Apr 24
Dr. Emily Bradshaw, assistant professor at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, and Dr. Laurel Gorman, associate professor of pharmacology, have been named among the 2020 recipients of the university’s Teaching Incentive Program award. The award recognizes productivity and excellence in teaching that contribute to the university’s mission. Dr. Bradshaw joined UCF in 2015 after earning…
Fri Apr 24
Congratulations to the faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities who have been selected to receive 2019-20 UCF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Awards or Research Incentive Awards (RIA). The TIP rewards teaching productivity and excellence. The award recognizes in-unit employee contributions to the university’s key goals of offering the best undergraduate education available…
Thu Apr 23
Dissecting honeybees via Zoom, using a glass shower door as a whiteboard and creating a virtual art gallery are a few of the ways students and faculty have adapted to remote learning, which UCF transitioned to on March 18 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Monday marked the last day of classes for the spring semester,…
Wed Apr 22
Starting this fall, UCF’s new conflict resolution and analysis certificate will provide students with the opportunity to dig deeper into the theories behind conflict and uncover what causes disputes. They’ll also learn the tools needed to resolve conflict at all levels: personal, professional, local, regional, national and global. “Conflict is rampant in society,” says Alisa…
Wed Apr 22
Professional recognition looks great on a resume, and reflects well on a department. It takes time, though, to put in an application, and that’s something in short supply for everyone — especially if you’re nominating someone other than yourself. Karin Chumbimuni-Torres, Ph.D., considered all these factors when she pitched her incentive plan to UCF Faculty…
Wed Apr 22
This fall, UCF will offer a new master’s degree in travel technology and analytics to prepare computer scientists, data analysts, software developers and information technologists for jobs in the travel industry. “The increasingly complex business environment the travel and tourism industry is facing requires an interdisciplinary approach to produce professionals who not only have a strong technology…