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Wed Mar 23
As part of Women’s History Month, the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs honors the women faculty of UCF who dedicate their research, time and passion to advancing the understanding of women’s studies. Dr. Julia O’Connor has spent her professional career exploring interpersonal violence against women and educating her community about it. In this…
Tue Mar 22
In episode 20 — the sixth of season two of Knights Do That — we speak with Mindy Shoss, an associate professor of psychology. She shares her research and expertise when it comes to workplace well-being and advice on how we can improve our communication in the workplace, what companies can do to have the…
Tue Mar 22
UCF’s Ross Wolf ’88 ’91MPA ’98EdD, professor and associate provost for UCF Downtown, has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2022-23 academic year. Following nomination by the senior administration of their institutions and a rigorous application process, 46 Fellows were selected this year. The year-long program seeks to strengthen colleges and universities by preparing…
Tue Mar 22
Peter Weishar, director of the themed experience program, spoke with InPark Magazine for the publication’s guide to Orlando’s themed entertainment academic programs. Weishar contributed to the roundtable and engaged his colleagues from several Orlando-area institutions to share details of their programs. “We are all passionate about the industry and training the next generation of themed experience designers and…
Mon Mar 14
Our human bones are under constant attack. From the moment we are born, they are fending off against aging and degenerative diseases. Some begin to crumble under the weight of cancer and there is evidence that time in gravity free space also weakens our bones. At UCF, Melanie Coathup is working to find ways to…
Thu Mar 10
Thirty-two teams representing colleges across the university and several centers were selected for 2022 Seed Funding awards, the third year the program has been available to faculty. The program, a result of a collaboration between the Office of Research and the Office of the Provost, is aimed at facilitating research, which is likely to attract…
Wed Mar 9
Drs. Salvador Almagro-Moreno and Kyle Rohde, infectious disease experts at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, are this year’s winners of UCF’s Research Incentive Award for the College of Medicine. The award recognizes outstanding research, scholarly or creative activity that advances the body of knowledge in a particular field. Dr. Almagro-Moreno’s research focuses on a…
Wed Mar 9
The Orlando Sentinel today named Richard Lapchick its Central Floridian of the Year, honoring an internationally recognized expert in sport who has dedicated his life to working to achieve racial equality. Twenty years ago, Lapchick founded UCF’s DeVos Sport Business Management program, which is one of the most highly regarded around the country and has impacted countless lives…
Wed Mar 9
Robert Schiavo is fairly new to the Department of Health Sciences and the College of Health Professions and Sciences, but he has been an asset to the growing success within the department for two years. Schiavo advises students and helps guide them to a path of success in their academic careers while assisting the department…
Wed Mar 9
A high-profile global conference celebrating the United Nation’s Year of Glass included two professors from CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, as top speakers. The Year of Glass designation recognizes the pivotal role glass has played across centuries and cultures, from ancient Egyptian art to the silica glass in the fiber optical cables that…
Mon Mar 7
AUniversity of Central Florida researcher will be training and assisting in the improvement of waste management services and processes for the city of Bishkek in the Kyrgyz Republic. The U.S. Department of State and Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recognized Debra Reinhart, UCF Pegasus Professor Emerita, with the Fulbright Specialist Award. Fulbright is an international exchange…
Mon Mar 7
Physical therapy Professor Patrick Pabian was inducted as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in physical therapy. This interprofessional organization involving healthcare practitioners and scholars is dedicated to supporting affordable, accessible, coordinated quality healthcare for all. The honor of Fellow is awarded to individuals with academic achievements such as significant and enduring educational and/or…
Wed Mar 2
David “Jamie” Poissant kicked off UCF’s third Authors Celebration with a story about how he hated reading as a child and eventually became an associate professor of English and published author. Poissant was one of 47 honorees at the celebration Tuesday, March 1, at the Live Oak Room on main campus. The celebration, held every…
Wed Mar 2
Pegasus Professor Shin-Tson Wu, Ph.D., was recognized recently by Optica for his contributions to the development of novel displays and diffractive optics for commercial products and widespread applications, especially for augmented reality, virtual reality and imaging devices. The Edwin H. Land Medal is a tribute to the work of the eponymous scientist’s “scientific intensity and curiosity in…
Mon Feb 28
Roberta Emerson’s life work revolves around her identity and how people make assumptions about her based on the color of her skin. The UCF visiting lecturer and director of New Play Development at Orlando Shakes began acting when very young and decided to make a career of it. She earned a bachelor’s and master of…
Thu Feb 24
Managing large disasters involves having robust plans and moving resources quickly to the right place. Often, it also means giving people a way to find closure. After the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people in Haiti, UCF Associate Professor Abdul-Akeem Sadiq worked with a team to figure out how to manage all the unidentified bodies…
Thu Feb 24
Juanita Green joined the University of Central Florida nursing program in January 1980, becoming not only one of the College of Nursing’s founding faculty members but also the program’s first Black faculty member. She reflects on her time at UCF, overcoming discrimination early in her nursing career and her advice for Black nursing students. The…
Mon Feb 21
Nurses play an important role in public health, which is the basis for UCF Associate Professor Jascinth Lindo’s research. Lindo grew up in Jamaica and says her interest in public health and personal experience growing up on the island fueled her desire to look at what works bests to help build the nursing capacity in the…
Mon Feb 21
As COVID-19 challenges the resilience of healthcare providers worldwide, an interprofessional team of UCF health faculty recently received a $1.5 million federal grant to help improve that resiliency. Support for UCF’s Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Training Program comes from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and is the first earned by…
Mon Feb 21
Among her memories from childhood, Inez Long ’98MBA most vividly recounts two. In the first, she’s playing in the yard with her cousin. The cousin tells Inezshe’s really hungry. They go inside and find only a single banana to eat as a snack. Inez cuts it in half and keeps the smaller piece for herself. Later, Long’s mother asks,…