Student Success
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.
Fri Nov 6
Four UCF alumni and a student are featured in the “2020 Florida Biennial: NOW is the Time / The time is NOW” exhibition taking place now through February 21, 2021 at Art and Culture Center/Hollywood. This exhibition features art focusing on unprecedented moments in history and offers a space for contemplation, packed with meaningful information and reflections about the signs of our times through a plethora of different mediums. Of the 32…
Thu Nov 5
ORLANDO, Fla. – Up to 150 University of Central Florida business students are facing off in a Sales Role Play Competition featuring buyers and judges from leading global professional services firm KPMG LLP. As part of the virtual, tournament-style competition, which started Oct. 30 and runs through Nov. 17, students enrolled in select Professional Selling Program courses…
Thu Nov 5
Maxine Furtado is the first recipient of the Jeffrey D. Law Memorial Scholarship for students in the kinesiology M.S. program. Recently, she was able to meet the donors of the scholarship to let them know just how much their gift meant to her. The scholarship was established last year by Ed and Julie Law, Jeff’s parents, and Matt…
Thu Nov 5
Students, want to meet an exciting, new language? Not sure if you want to commit to learning a specific language? Meet new languages at the fourth annual Language Speed Dating event! Hosted by Modern Languages and Literatures, this International Education Week event offers students the opportunity to experience many different languages in a fun, multicultural…
Wed Nov 4
Now through December 12, the public can visit the Center for Book Arts Main Gallery in New York City to see the “Americans Looking In” exhibit co-curated by two SVAD MFA alumni – Emilie Ahern ’11 ’14 MFA and Sherri Littlefield ’12 MFA – that highlights The Americans photograph collection taken by Robert Frank. The Americans by Robert Frank was a post-war American photography book that was highly influential, and the photos were notable for their distanced view of both…
Tue Nov 3
UCF is debuting a new way for graduates to celebrate commencement while adhering to university COVID-19 protocols. The UCF Grad Walk offers Fall 2020 graduates the opportunity to cross the commencement stage with up to four supporters in attendance. When walking the stage of the Pegasus Ballroom, graduates’ names will be read aloud while family and friends…
Mon Nov 2
Commencement is a culmination of the hard work and dedication students put into earning their degree. It is not only a way to recognize their efforts, but to celebrate graduates as they begin to apply the lessons they’ve learned in the classroom to the world beyond academia. And while the pomp and circumstance may look…
Thu Oct 29
After Hurricane Maria ravaged her home country of Puerto Rico in 2017, Rocio Vazquez Beltran came to Florida in search of a better future and an opportunity to continue her studies. She enrolled at UCF to complete her bachelor’s in biomedical sciences, but financial challenges during her third year of study forced her to move…
Wed Oct 28
ORLANDO, Fla. – With a comprehensive plan to turn around a struggling coffee shop, five students won first place at the Integrated Business Competition on Friday, October 23. Students Jedrek Grogan, Brett Houck, June Pablo, Dominique Orr-Tulloch and Davor Scutt of “Team Smitty Werben Inc.” impressed the judging panel to receive top honors in the virtual…
Tue Oct 27
Soon after the Nicholson School of Communication and Media opened a new 3,500-square-foot Games and Interactive Media Maker Space last fall, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced the closure of the lab on the UCF Downtown campus. But after a redesign of the floor plan for the laser cutter, 3D printer, recording studio, AR/VR equipment…
Tue Oct 27
There’s more to landscaping than pulling weeds and pushing a mower — much more. Experts in logistics, finance, small engine repair, soil chemistry and human resources are all in demand at Baker Commercial Landscaping, a 250-plus employee company that maintains the properties of homes and businesses across Tampa and Orlando, including UCF’s main campus and…
Tue Oct 27
This spring, a new humanities course, Race and Technology, will explore the role of race in the production, consumption, and representation of technology. The course explores how new and emerging technologies—from dating apps to robots–produce racial identities and how they may be used to reproduce and also resist racism. Students will help build a class…
Mon Oct 26
Sudden cardiac death is the most common medical cause of death in athletes. About one in 40,000 children will have their hearts stop during exercise and one in five carry a gene that predisposes them to sudden cardiac arrest. Through his research, second-year UCF medical student Gabriel Krivenko is advocating for widescale echocardiogram (ECG) screening…
Mon Oct 26
A new philosophy course for the Spring 2021 semester will explore Neuroethics. This course, developed by Assistant Professor Luis Favela, is not only new to UCF but is the first neuroethics course in the state of Florida. UCF students will have the unique opportunity to take a course not offered at any other university in…
Mon Oct 26
A Physics graduate student is redefining what success looks like with the help of minority academics and the McKnight Dissertation Fellowship. Brian Zamarripa Roman traces his fascination with the cosmos to childhood, but it was only recently that he noticed the lack of representation in the scientific community — specifically, scientists who looked him. Zamarripa…
Fri Oct 23
When Antonio “Ricardo” Liborio, a world-champion Brazilian jiu-jitsu sixth-degree black belt, introduced the sport to the University of Central Florida in 2018, his goal was to do more than teach a physical sport to students. He wanted to help college students find an activity that would benefit their overall well-being for the rest of their…
Thu Oct 22
Nearly 800 million people are without clean drinking water in the world, and for environmental chemist and second-year doctoral candidate Lorianne Shultz this is no small problem. In her area of study, materials chemistry for environmental applications, she looks to improve the methods used to purify water around the globe. Under the guidance of chemistry Assistant Professor…
Tue Oct 20
Business and Engineering & Computer Science Colleges Team Up to Compete Eight UCF students earned a $5,000 scholarship with their award-winning plan to keep college students engaged in extracurricular activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. UCF College of Business students Armando Barrial, Tomas Daza, Maria Pacheco Naranjo, Karen Ortiz and UCF College of Engineering & Computer…
Tue Oct 20
After overcoming many challenges, Marlee Rose Linnell is following in both of her parent’s footsteps to pursue a career in nursing. By her side is a four-legged pup who is also learning to care for others. Growing up, Marlee Rose Linnell would visit the hospital where her mom worked the night shift as a labor…
Tue Oct 20
To better address the growing opioid epidemic and evidence of the important role that physical therapists play in caring for patients with pain, UCF’s physical therapy program developed a new course solely focused on pain. According to Carey Rothschild, an assistant professor in the physical therapy doctorate program, it’s the only PT program in Florida to have such…
