The University of Central Florida awards more than 18,000 degrees annually — the most among Florida public universities and among the most nationally — and strives to set the pace for advancing student success in higher education.
Wed Dec 16
Since Rafaela Frota won the UCF Joust New Venture Competition in 2019, her nutrition-assistance app Wawwe (We Are What We Eat), secured a major investment deal, earned a contract with the nation’s largest hospital network and recently completed the Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars Fellowship program. The fellowship gave Frota access to workshops, support and mentorship…
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,…
Tue Dec 15
Ramy El-Ganainy, Ph.D., is a recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. The fellowship spans 18 months, divided over three years. He will be hosted by Professor Kurt Busch at Berlin’s Humboldt University. The fellowship allows El-Ganainy to closely collaborate with the theoretical and experimental photonics groups in the host institute, and…
Mon Dec 14
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the College of Graduate Studies made some changes to better connect with students and will continue the changes through the spring semester. Communicating changes to operations, which the university was making in real-time, and how they would impact graduate students was a challenge, but the college tried some new approaches, which…
Thu Dec 10
Despite the challenges brought on by COVID-19, UCF medical students continue to make their mark with medical research, presenting their discoveries at a national conference and winning top awards for their presentations. Third-year medical student Spencer Lessans and MD/PhD candidate Michael Rohr were accepted to present recently at the American College of Gastroenterology 2020 National Scientific…
Tue Dec 8
Research shows that students with disabilities become disenfranchised with the idea of pursuing a career in a STEM-related field by the time they enter middle school, explains Matthew Marino, professor of exceptional student education. There are several reasons for this, says Marino, from simply struggling with the content to being discouraged due to their disability, despite…
Mon Dec 7
Ruben Mercado Santos realized he was “different” in high school. When his friends were getting their driver’s licenses and registering to vote, he couldn’t. After living in South Florida since he was 5, the Honduras native began to realize what it meant to be an undocumented immigrant in the United States. “There are times where…
Fri Dec 4
When academics and experts from different disciplines collaborate, major advancements and necessary changes can happen for the betterment of the field, especially in education. In 2011, the National Science Foundation created CADRE, the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education, to facilitate an environment for this collaboration to occur. The group of early STEM researchers…
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…
Thu Dec 3
Socrate Exantus ’00 is a successful entrepreneur, business owner, Amazon best-selling author and world traveler. Yet his passion for learning – and real estate – continues to grow. Already a licensed real estate broker and instructor, the energetic UCF alum is pursuing his Professional MSRE at UCF. Exantus is the CEO and owner, along with wife…
Thu Dec 3
Sometime after Lindsey Palm graduates this month — soon after UCF’s virtual commencement ceremony and her celebration with her COVID bubble — she plans to find a moment of quiet in her home to sit at her laptop and start an email. Even though it will sit in an inbox unread for the next 16…
Wed Dec 2
Giving Tuesday is a global day of generosity that takes place every year on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving. Created in 2012, the day has grown into a global movement that inspires millions of people to give, collaborate and celebrate generosity. UCF has participated in Giving Tuesday since its inception. Over the course of 24 hours…
Tue Dec 1
Like several of the people in your Twitter timeline, Dominique Allen Lawson ’14 spent a part of his Thanksgiving holiday watching Hulu’s “Happiest Season”. The only difference is that when Lawson watched the movie, he saw himself in the film playing the cheeky, ambitious, side-eye-giving character of Levi.Finding His Footing Lawson, who grew up in Jacksonville and…
Mon Nov 30
Mohammed Al Awwad, a Junior at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs majoring in Political Science, has been selected for a highly competitive internship with the U.S. State Department in fall 2020. He is currently serving as Human Rights Research Intern at the United States Consulate of Erbil, Iraq, as part of the…
Mon Nov 30
Presentations on interrupting the achievement gap of students, technology for cooling devices, and understanding near-earth asteroids received the top prizes this year at UCF’s annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. The international event challenges doctoral students to present their research in three minutes using only one slide as a prompt. Judging of the students is…
Mon Nov 30
Michael Roberts ’19 took second place at this year’s U.S. Department of Energy’s CyberForce Competition, held virtually Nov. 14. “Each individual competitor needed to possess the knowledge and skills and perform all the work typically spread among a six-member team.”— Tom Nedorost Due to the pandemic, this year’s CyberForce competition shifted from an in-person test…
Fri Nov 27
Two UCF doctoral candidates are being recognized for their efforts in advancing human space exploration. NASA awarded Yuen Yee Li Sip a three-year fellowship to support her research project on improving the durability of metals in space, and Elizabeth Barrios was recently honored by the Space Education and Outreach Committee of the International Astronautical Federation…
Wed Nov 25
Four students from the College of Health Profession and Sciences join 31 other University of Central Florida students as members of the President’s Leadership Council. The 2020-21 representatives from the College of Health Professions and Sciences include health sciences majors Austin Eason, Kristopher Terry and Tatum Cox, and kinesiology major Dylan Street. The President’s Leadership Council recognizes students across the…
Wed Nov 25
While Black Friday and Cyber Monday are often the biggest sales days for corporate businesses, Small Business Saturday — which falls on Nov. 28 this year — encourages you to support local business owners. This year, and for years to come, we suggest you consider supporting communities of color, including these Black-owned businesses from UCF alumni entrepreneurs.…
