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.
Tue Sep 20
“As a young high school girl growing up in my native Nigeria, I always aspired to achieve the highest education degree with the intention to engage in inquiry, discovery and development of innovation to make the world a better place,” says Eunice Oladepe Ojo ’21DNP, a UCF College of Nursing student and alum. Ojo returned to UCF…
Tue Sep 20
Just one small piece of space debris can damage or disable a satellite. Much of this debris, also known as space junk, is catalogued through space-based space surveillance, which uses optical sensors to track objects in orbit that could pose a risk for collision. However, some objects can be too small to track. UCF aerospace…
Thu Sep 15
UCF’s STARTALK Intensive Russian Language Program is getting a major upgrade next year. The new program, “How Words Shape People: Understanding Business Russian Through Proverbs,” will run from January 2023 through May 2024. It is open to high school seniors and college freshmen from across the nation, and includes both virtual and in-person segments, all…
Thu Sep 15
On college campuses, the issue of sexual assault often hides in plain sight. And when students’ stories are scattered by people in positions of power, objective truth can fall between the cracks. Theatre UCF’s production of Lynda Radley’s The Interference boosts those silenced voices by illustrating the issue through one woman’s story. Directed by Associate Professor David…
Tue Sep 13
As summer turns to fall, most UCF students are rushing to get their textbooks, parking permits and class schedules in order. But this semester, English literature major Emily Aycrigg is packing her bags with 17th-century attire for a conference in Victoria, Canada, where she will meet hundreds of Jane Austen fans from around the continent.…
Tue Sep 13
Theatre UCF took audiences on a journey through works by contemporary American playwrights that tackled a wide range of topics — the complexities of adolescence, the ups and downs of adulthood, loss and finding love in unexpected places. After a year where performances were disrupted and reimagined by the pandemic, UCF students and faculty were…
Tue Sep 13
Two designations have qualified UCF for a spot among 388 of The Princeton Review’s Best Colleges for 2023, which includes only 14% America’s four-year schools. Rankings are determined based on surveys from students across each of the schools featured this year. UCF was ranked No. 21 for Best Student Health Services. One of UCF’s institutional…
Tue Sep 13
Nandhini Raju ’21MS, a UCF mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate, recently won two prestigious scholarships for her work at UCF. She has been awarded the Dr. Subrato Chandra Memorial Scholarship from the College of Engineering and Computer Science for the 2022-2023 academic year and the Elisabeth M. and Winchell M. Parsons Scholarship from The American Society of Mechanical…
Tue Sep 13
Two Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, Andrew Ady and Christopher Ngo, are among UCF’s M-STAR Fellows who conducted research at NASA’s Langley, Johnson and Kennedy space centers as part of a summer internship. UCF was one of seven universities to be awarded funding from NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project Space Technology Artemis Research,…
Tue Sep 6
UCF was one of seven universities to be awarded funding from NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project Space Technology Artemis Research, or M-STAR, initiative this past year. The program is designed for minority-serving institutions that develop innovative technologies to support the Artemis mission. As a result of this grant, 10 Knights had the opportunity…
Tue Sep 6
While studying abroad is often a goal for most college students, some may never have the opportunity to do so due to financial reasons. But thanks to the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship program, 28 UCF students — including one who earned two awards — have received financial assistance to take advantage of experiences abroad…
Tue Aug 23
Dedicated to preserving ocean life at every scale, UCF doctoral candidate Ashley Reaume is working to create an efficient and cost-effective “bioassessment toolkit” that can be used to evaluate the impact of water quality on plankton communities. “Both plankton and estuaries play important roles in sustaining human life, providing us with ecosystem services like nutrient…
Tue Aug 23
s UCF welcomes students back for the Fall 2022 semester, the university is deeply committed to fostering their academic success and wellbeing — from their first day on campus through graduation. This year’s incoming fall freshman class is already making its mark for academic excellence. Preliminary statistics indicate the fall freshman class set a new…
Tue Aug 23
When Mike Partain ’21MA was 39 years old, his wife hugged him and felt a lump in his chest. The lump didn’t go away, so Partain scheduled a doctor’s appointment. To his surprise, the doctor referred him for a mammogram. “I remember sitting in the waiting room, and they left me there for a while,…
Tue Aug 23
Two Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences students are among three UCF students to have been awarded the highly competitive Astronaut Scholarships this year — raising the university’s student awards from the organization to 54 since 1989. Each year, over 60 students across the country are awarded up to $15,000 each through the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation…
Tue Aug 23
UCF’s Perla Latorre-Suarez ’21 is among the most promising graduate students in the world who are likely to change the aerospace industry, according to Aviation Week Network. The magazine and its partners — Accenture and Hexcel — this month announced their 20 Twenties Award Class of 2022. More than 80 students were nominated from around the…
Tue Aug 23
While they both share a love for the arts, UCF students like Giuseppe Pipicella and Isabella Moreno might never cross paths. Pipicella is a third-year MFA acting student in the School of Performing Arts, and Moreno is an undergraduate studying character animation in the School of Visual Arts and Design. But with the creation of…
Tue Aug 23
Nearly 4,000 new graduate students will join 4,300 returning graduate students at UCF next week as fall classes begin Monday, Aug. 22. For some, it will be a new experience, and for many of UCF’s returning students, they may find some changes that were implemented pre- and post-COVID. The College of Graduate Studies and other…
Tue Aug 16
Check out some of the ways summer UCF grads made their mark while making their university proud.
Wed Aug 10
Virginia Perwin ’22MA has a lot in common with other students who received a master’s degree at UCF this weekend. She likes to keep active by spending time with her family, gardening and ziplining. She engages in community work by teaching people how to read. She was a first-generation student. The difference is that while…