UCF Podcast: Reflecting on a Lifetime of Service to Students, Space and Community
Thu Jan 5
Season three of Knights Do That, UCF’s official podcast, returns with its final episode with Gregg Buckingham ’02EdD, an associate lecturer in the School of Public Administration. Buckingham spent his professional career at NASA, working at both NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., and at the Kennedy Space Center before joining UCF. Here Buckingham shares insight into…
For Faculty: Welcome Back and Key Resources for Spring Planning
Wed Jan 4
Dear Colleagues: Welcome to a new year and a new semester. This message includes key academic policies, regulations and resources to inform your course preparation. Syllabus requirements Course materials availability Student Accessibility Services Final exams Make-up assignments Religious observances Student conduct and academic integrity Student academic misconduct review process Office of Military and Veteran Student…
UCF’s 30 Best Photos of 2022
Tue Dec 20
Here’s a look at some of the most memorable photos of the year. Forward CJ Walker prepares to score in the Addition Financial Arena. UCF defeated Memphis 74-64. Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences Assistant Professor Salvador Almagro-Moreno studies the emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens. English alum and applied sociology graduate student Shawn Welcome ’17, who is Orlando’s second poet laureate,…
UCF Researchers Collect Critical High-water Mark Data Following Hurricane Ian
Tue Dec 20
No matter the best-laid plans or the time spent preparing for a natural disaster, there is almost certain to be some element of response or recovery that is overlooked, usually by virtue of resource constraints. With that in mind, University of Central Florida School of Public AdministrationProfessor Christopher Emrich and his team of graduate and postdoctoral researchers set…
UCF Medical Student Matches into Competitive Military Specialty
Mon Dec 19
Having spent his early years in his native Colombia, Gustavo Marino experienced the challenges that underserved people have accessing healthcare. “I saw members of my family experience difficulties and it just made me want to be able to do more for underserved communities,” says Marino, now a fourth-year medical student. “Even when my mom and…
UCF Researchers Create Technology that Harvests Radio Waves for Energy
Mon Dec 19
To meet the growing energy needs of the internet of things (IoT) and wireless communication systems, University of Central Florida researchers have developed a technology for converting radio frequency signals into direct current electricity. The technology can reduce the electronic industry’s reliance on batteries and broaden the expansion of the IoT and its energy needs.…
UCF Chemistry Researcher Helps Elucidate Mechanism Key to Climate Change
Fri Dec 16
University of Central Florida researcher is part of a multi-national team who have confirmed a previously unproven mechanism tied to climate change. Denisia Popolan-Vaida, an assistant professor in UCF’s Department of Chemistry, and the research team recently published their confirmation of the “Korcek Mechanism” in the international edition of the journal Angewandte Chemie. The Korcek Mechanism involves…
UCF Student, Animation Alumna Credited for Work on âAvatar: The Way of Water’
Thu Dec 15
Like many students, Tal Minks ’18 can’t wait to watch Avatar: The Way of Water when it releases on Dec. 16. But for him, the movie represents more than a return to the world of Pandora — it’s a culmination of his hard work as a lead animator at Steamroller Animation, where he helped work on the film. This semester,…
10 UCF Physicians Are Orlando Magazine’s 2022 Best Doctors
Wed Dec 14
Ten UCF-affiliated physicians are honored this month in Orlando Magazine’s top physicians edition. The publication contains two lists — Top Doctors, compiled by Consumers’ CHECKBOOK, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., and Premier Doctors, a peer-review study conducted exclusively for the magazine by an independent research company. Seven awardees are faculty physicians at UCF Health, the College…
A Trailblazing Ph.D. Student Marks First for UCF Nursing
Wed Dec 14
When Kimberly P. Emery Rathbun ’17BSN walks across the stage at Addition Financial Arena on Friday to be officially hooded as “Dr. Emery,” she will mark a milestone in her career and at the UCF College of Nursing. Emery is the college’s first graduate of the BSN to Ph.D. program, an innovative program where nursing students interested in…
Marriott Vacations Worldwide Creates $250K Endowed Scholarship to Support UCF Hospitality Students
Tue Dec 13
Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation (MVW) has made a $250,000 donation to establish an endowed scholarship for students who attend the UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management. The scholarship will be known as the Stephen P. Weisz Endowed Scholarship in Hospitality Management Fund, in honor of the retiring chief executive officer of Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation. Inspired…
UCF Receives Top Ranks for Producing Patents for 9th Consecutive Year
Tue Dec 13
The University of Central Florida has ranked in the top 100 public universities for producing patents for the ninth consecutive year, according to the latest report from the National Academy of Inventors. The report ranked UCF No. 31 among public universities in the nation in 2021 and No. 60 worldwide. The annual report is conducted by the…
Top 20 UCF Today Stories of 2022
Mon Dec 12
The following stories gained great interest throughout 2022. They are ranked by page views from Jan. 1 through Dec. 5. 20. UCF’s Perla Latorre-Suarez Named Among Best Aerospace Graduate Students in the World Aviation Week Network magazine’s annual 20 Twenties Award Class listing identifies students with the potential to change the aerospace industry. Latorre-Suarez — who is…
Thousands of Students to Join UCF’s Talent Pipeline Following Fall 2022 Commencement
Mon Dec 12
UCF will award about 6,200 degrees during four commencement ceremonies at Additional Financial Arena Dec. 16 and 17, sending a talent pipeline of enthusiastic, highly skilled graduates into careers that are vital for our region and our state. Our graduates are the future of Florida and America, composed of diverse, entrepreneurial and creative innovators who will enrich…
Succeeding Differently: Parents, Experts and a Celebrity Discuss Neurodiversity
Mon Dec 12
Comedian Howie Mandel, who has ADHD and OCD, won’t forget the moment his diagnosis was publicly shared. “I was on the Howard Stern Show about 20 years ago,” Mandel recalls. “I told him, because we’re friends, what I was dealing with and I thought we were in a commercial break and we weren’t, and it…
Mother’s Research Will Help English Learners
Mon Dec 12
hen learning English as a second language, Boniesta Melani recalls hearing her friend say, “I have a lot on my plate,” to which Melani replied, “you shouldn’t eat too much.” While she understood the literal meaning of each word, the figurative phrase was lost in translation — an issue faced by many nonnative English speakers.…
UCF Researcher Receives NASA Award to Inspire Local High School Students in Aerospace Engineering
Fri Dec 9
University of Central Florida researcher has received NASA funding to create aerospace engineering opportunities for high schoolers from underserved and underrepresented communities to encourage them to think about space. “Novel Experience Geared to NASA Engineering Design Challenges,” or NEXTGEN-EDC, seeks to ignite local high school students’ interest in STEM through engineering projects, professional development workshops…
UCF Wins Air Force Research Lab Competition
Fri Dec 9
An interdisciplinary team of faculty researchers from CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, and UCF’s physics department has won the opportunity to develop a system that uses photonics to more accurately visualize space debris — an increasing problem since the start of the space age. The UCF team won the National Security Innovation Network…
UCF, Duke Rank Among Top Bowl Teams for Academic Performance
Thu Dec 8
Military Bowl opponents UCF and Duke both excel in the classroom, making the game one of the best in the nation as rated by the teams’ academic performances. UCF earned an Academic Progress Rate of 984, just one point behind Duke’s 985. The combined total ranks tied for fourth for any set of opponents in…
Space, Health and Engineering Innovations Make UCF Research Top 10 News List of 2022
Thu Dec 8
As high profile launches like Artemis 1 have propelled public interest in space exploration, the stories that topped UCF’s Top 10 Research News list this year have reflected this renewed focus on reaching the moon and beyond. These were stories about innovative ways to build off-world settlements; prospecting for resources in understudied portions of the…
