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 Aug 10
For as long as she can remember, Laura Segarra ’22PhD has always been drawn to space, science and math. She still has her elementary school books with colorful illustrations of the universe. She laughs about almost catching the kitchen on fire during a combustion experiment. And she has vivid memories of being at her grandmother’s farm in…
Wed Aug 10
Samir Ali considers himself a builder and fixer by nature. He believes those skills are what every person needs to not make their own lives better, but to help the world around them. With such a philosophy, it’s no wonder that the mechanical engineering major was chosen to participate in the 2022 Station1 Frontiers Fellowship,…
Wed Aug 10
For the first time in history, two UCF medical students have received the prestigious American Medical Association’s Physicians of Tomorrow award – a national scholarship based on academic excellence, volunteerism and research activities. The program offers $10,000 in tuition assistance to medical students approaching their final year of school. The highly competitive scholarships based on financial…
Wed Aug 10
SOCIAL WORK New Undergraduate Social Work and the Law Certificate Provides Insight into How Two Disciplines Support Mutual Goals WRITTEN BY: UCF SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | AUGUST 8, 2022 New Social Work and the Law certificate will provide undergraduate students an understanding of the intersection between social work and the law in order to…
Fri Aug 5
Doctorate graduates were given a warm and personal send-off Thursday in a longstanding College of Sciences tradition. Remarks by Dean Maggy Tomova, Ph.D., were followed by individual recognition of the Summer ’22 graduates in attendance. A toast sent them forward into their next milestones, which varied from academia to postdoctoral research and national laboratories. Click here for…
Fri Aug 5
On Aug. 9, 2016, two days after her 16th birthday, Victoria Orindas and her family immigrated to the United States from the Republic of Moldova. The very next day, she started high school. “Waking up in a whole new country and starting school the same day didn’t really give me the time to experience culture shock,”…
Thu Aug 4
An IT analyst and project manager. A high school chemistry teacher. A private pilot. They come from various career paths, but now share similar futures. This week, after a one-year intensive degree program, they will cross UCF’s commencement stage prepared to enter the workforce in a different role — as nurses. The three are among…
Thu Aug 4
On Saturday, Aug. 6, some 100 young scientists will graduate from the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences during UCF’s Summer 2022 commencement. Those earning degrees include 88 undergraduates and 18 master’s and Ph.D. students. Approximately 3,900 degrees will be conferred during three UCF ceremonies Aug. 5-6 held in the Addition Financial Arena. Burnett graduates will…
Thu Aug 4
Sarah Mendoza is looking forward to a career in higher education, teaching the next generation of counselors, and advocating for systemic change through the power of empathy education as she graduates this weekend from the UCF’s Counselor Education doctoral program. Her passion for mental health started back in 2002 when she first joined UCF as an…
Tue Aug 2
Meet the newest cohort of Knight nurses. The Summer Class of 2022 celebrated the completion of their nursing degree at the College of Nursing’s professional recognition ceremony last night and will walk across the stage at Addition Financial Arena on Friday evening at UCF’s commencement. In total, UCF awarded 287 nursing degrees: 230 bachelor’s degrees (BSN), nine master’s…
Tue Aug 2
As youngsters, Valerie and Irma Vazquez were raised on a horse farm in Puerto Rico, were champion equestrians and shared a mutual interest in medicine. Today, the sister-physicians are training to become surgeons at HCA Florida Ocala Hospital, in the center of Florida’s horse country. Dr. Irma Vazquez is a first-year general surgery resident. Dr.…
Fri Jul 29
Getting a tenure-track faculty position at a university has become harder, but several UCF recent graduates are beating the odds. For many students, an academic position is the goal. For others, it’s industry. Getting into academia is challenging. The American Association of University Professors reports tenured faculty positions have declined to approximately only 21% of…
Wed Jul 27
Enjoy works from a variety of genres, subjects and time periods in Theatre UCF’s 2022–23 season With a variety of plays and musicals ranging from Shakespeare to bluegrass, Theatre UCF’s 2022-23 season looks at the relationship between individuals and institutions, exploring themes of power structures, corruption and social systems, as well as lighter moments of…
Wed Jul 27
The Lumina Foundation has granted the Florida Consortium of Metropolitan Research Universities — which includes UCF, the Florida International University (FIU) and the University of South Florida (USF) — $400,000 to reduce transfer shock, shorten time to degree completion and align curriculum for transfer students. The initiative aims to assist more than 5,000 transfer…
Wed Jul 27
UCF President Alexander N. Cartwright told the Class of 2026 M.D. candidates there has never been a better time to be part of Orlando’s young medical school. “This college was designed to be a model of 21st-century medical education, pioneering new ways to help people live better and teaching you to practice medicine not just…
Mon Jul 25
The verdict is in: Team âIt’s All Legal’ won their case at the Summer 2022 Great Capstone Case Competition on Friday. Business students, Marvin Fung, George Miller, Austin Phouangphrachanh, Michael Serrano and William Walton took home $500 each in scholarship funding, thanks to competition sponsor Platinum Technologies. It’s All Legal beat out eight other teams…
Thu Jul 21
The UCF-HCA Florida Healthcare Graduate Medical Education Consortium launched the first ever Graduate Medical Education Residency Program at HCA Florida Capital Hospital. Accredited by the Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the new program will train residents in dermatology, and psychiatric medicine. The psychiatric residency is the first and only program of its kind in the Big Bend…
Wed Jul 20
Tori Currier, a fourth semester student in the Communication Sciences and Disorders master’s degree program, knows what it’s like to go through hard times when a loved one receives a life-changing medical diagnosis. More importantly, she knows how impactful it is to have the right people on your medical team. Currier decided to become a speech…
Mon Jul 18
Asking the right questions is one of the key things Sandra Montenegro has taken from the Survey Certificate Program offered by the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs. The I/O psychology master’s student is studying ways to mitigate the emotional toll of bi-vocational church ministers. Often that stress stems from clergy switching between roles of pastor,…
Mon Jul 18
Daniel Enix is a junior studying Photonic Science and Engineering at UCF. His path to UCF and future career plans were recently featured for the student spotlight in the March/April 2022 issue of LIA Today. You can read the original article here. (Reprinted with permission.) When you were you first introduced to photonics/electro-optics? “I was first…