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Tue Aug 23
With monkeypox in the news, we turned to Kenneth Alexander, M.D., Ph.D., a UCF College of Medicine professor and chief of Infectious Diseases at Nemours Children’s Health, for the information you should know. Monkeypox virus causes fever, swollen lymph nodes and painful blister-like lesions (pox) on the skin and mucous membranes. While its origins are…
Tue Aug 23
he introduction of Texas pumas to Florida in the 1990s as part of a genetic rescue may have helped save Florida panthers from extinction, but it also brought some harmful mutations with it along the way. In a new study led by UCF, researchers show that nearly half of the harmful mutations found in recent…
Tue Aug 23
A team of researchers led by UCF Trustee Chair Professor Mubarak Shah, professor of computer science in the UCF Center for Research in Computer Vision, will play a key role in a newly funded national effort to forge livable, safe and inclusive communities with technologies built on advances in wireless communications. This month the U.S.…
Wed Aug 10
Traveling to Hopkins Village, Belize, feels like a homecoming for Citizen Science GIS after six years of research and community work. Each summer brings a surprise, though. A new degree of urgency was injected into this year’s projects when Associate Professor Timothy Hawthorne, Ph.D., and the student team saw just how badly the beach had…
Tue Aug 2
Ruth Kessa, a School of Public Administration public affairs doctoral student, was recently named a Mellon Fellow by the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative. The fellowship, a joint venture between the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, provides doctoral students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide with financial, technical and mentorship support to…
Wed Jul 27
imbitless Solutions, the UCF-based nonprofit and UCF direct support organization that creates bionic limbs for children, celebrated the eighth anniversary this month. The program has seen impressive growth in the past year, beginning with a move into a new facility in July 2021. The additional space enabled record participation by UCF undergraduate students in internships and…
Mon Jul 25
Khalilah Louis Caines, LCSW is earning her Ph.D. in Public Affairs within the social work track and has recently been awarded $5,000 for a 2022-2023 Dissertation Fellowship from the Florida Institute for Child Welfare (FICW). This institute is dedicated to “research and scholarship that promotes and improves the safety, permanency and well-being outcomes for children…
Thu Jul 21
University of Central Florida’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management, College of Medicine and College of Engineering and Computer Science have received $4.5 million dollars in funding for a research initiative aimed at mitigating the damage caused to hospitality, travel, and small businesses by health crises, like the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding for the collaborative research project comes from the UCF…
Mon Jul 18
A new research article on molecular devices is making its way to publication in one of the top five scientific journals in the world. The research article was published on the Advanced Materials website and acknowledges the work by Postdoctoral Associate Ran Liu, Ph.D. Physics and Pegsus Professor Enrique del Barco, Ph.D. Physics. Their research aims to find an…
Wed Jul 13
UCF physics graduate student Olga Harrington Pinto counted down the minutes until today. She is one of eight UCF researchers and one alumna who will be using the world’s mightiest space telescope — the James Webb Space Telescope. This morning, the telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast from…
Thu Jun 30
College of Medicine researchers have found a new way to track metastatic cancer cells in the body, which in the future could help identify cancer earlier and give patients more treatment options. In the latest issue of PLOS ONE, Dr. Annette Khaled’s research lab reported using a protein complex called a chaperonin as a new marker…
Tue Jun 28
In April 2022, the India Center hosted a discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic response in India and the U.S. Associate Professor Varadraj Gurupur, Ph.D., from UCF’s School of Global Health Management and Informatics led a panel discussion with Dr. Anuradha Pichumani, executive director of the Sree Renga Hospital, and Dr. Amitha Marla, medical administrator of…
Tue Jun 28
When asteroid 2019 OK suddenly appeared barreling toward Earth on July 25, 2019, Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin and the team at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico jumped into action. After getting an alert, the radar scientists zoned in on the asteroid, which was coming from Earth’s blind spot — solar opposition. Zambrano-Marin and the team…
Thu Jun 23
UCF, the nation’s Space University, has now entered an agreement with the U.S. Space Force to help develop technology and an agile workforce ready for space. The two organizations recently signed an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) after several Space Force officials visited UCF in March. Three members — also known as Guardians — of the…
Thu Jun 23
A new diagnostic technology using saliva, developed by a College of Medicine researcher, is helping one company create better treatments and diagnostics for autism spectrum disorder. Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya, professor and head of neuroscience research at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, is collaborating with Nova Mentis Life Science Corp. to develop the first system…
Wed Jun 22
In June, at least five asteroids — some as large as a Boeing 747 — will buzz by Earth, coming as close as 431,000 miles from the planet. Asteroids are always moving through our solar system. Although none of them pose a serious threat to Earth now, they could in the future. As a civilization…
Tue Jun 21
Whether it’s solving the world’s biggest problems or investigating the potential of novel discoveries, researchers at UCF are on the edge scientific breakthroughs that aim to make an impact. Through the Research in 60 Seconds series, student and faculty researchers condense their complex studies into bite-sized summaries so you can know how and why Knights plan…
Tue Jun 21
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a device for artificial intelligence that mimics the retina of the eye. The development could lead to advanced AI that can instantly recognize what it sees, like automatic descriptions of pictures taken by a camera or phone. The technology also has applications in self-driving vehicles and robotics. The…
Mon Jun 20
The Simulation, Technology, Innovation & Modeling (STIM) Center at UCF’s College of Nursing is among an elite group of nine simulation programs worldwide — and the only one in Florida — to earn the new Healthcare Simulation Standards Endorsement from the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL). The international endorsement recognizes the STIM…
Fri Jun 17
When students are interested in the fields of kinesiology and physical therapy, it is often because they want to help people; but students don’t need to wait to graduate to make an impact. Through the Institute of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation Science (IEPRS), UCF provides students with research experiences that combine their interest and passion in exercise…