Urgent Guidance for Faculty on Tropical Storm Nicole
Tue Nov 8
Dear Colleagues: To prepare for Tropical Storm Nicole, UCF has canceled all classes, including online courses, for tomorrow and Thursday. Any homework or exams planned for or due on those days must be postponed until Monday or later. Please be prepared to help students navigate the challenges that Nicole may bring. As with Hurricane Ian,…
“He Helped Save Our World from a Global Pandemic”
Tue Nov 8
COVID-19 was killing thousands a day worldwide, and humanity desperately needed a vaccine. Darin Edwards ’97 ’10MS ’11PhD remembered the urgency he felt as he led the charge to create Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine: “We have to make this technology do what it can do. And we have to do it now.” Edwards, a three-time UCF…
UCF Students Win 2022 Southeast Regional Ethics Bowl
Tue Nov 8
On Saturday, Nov. 5, the UCF Ethics Bowl team did it again. The team of five undergraduate students won the Southeast Regional Ethics Bowl for the second time in the last three years, with a final performance record of five-to-zero. They will go on to compete in the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl next weekend at…
Philanthropy Helps Innovative Program Bring Joy to Hospitalized Children
Tue Nov 8
a new program made possible by philanthropists Bruce Gould and Jeffrey Gould will help bring more joy and laughter to children in extended hospital stays. The Jeanette M. Gould Traveling Theater Fund honors their mother’s love of the theater and her longtime support of the nursing profession. In its “opening run” this semester, the fund…
Book talk with UCF alumnus Dr. Bob Beatty brings inspiration to students
Tue Nov 8
At the start of his graduate school career, Dr. Bob Beatty, public historian and double-UCF alumnus, made a list of 10 life goals he wanted to accomplish. Among the items he had on the list, he said he wrote down: learn how to surf, get a Ph.D. and write a book on the Allman brothers.…
UCF Podcast: Combining Art and Technology
Tue Nov 8
Season three of Knights Do That, UCF’s official podcast, returns with its seventh guest, Stella Sung, a renowned composer, Pegasus Professor, trustee chair professor, and director of the Center for Research and Education in Arts, Technology and Entertainment (CREATE) at UCF. Sung started her career at UCF as a music professor and now teaches in…
UCF-HCA Begin New Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Tue Nov 8
UCF and HCA Healthcare are starting a new Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship program and are seeking applicants to begin training in July 2023. The fellowship, which recently received initial ACGME accreditation, will include training at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, the Orlando VA Medical Center, and Vitas Healthcare, the nation’s largest single-source provider of end-of-life…
UCF Limbitless Solutions Students Win Awards at SBEC Biomedical Engineering Conference
Tue Nov 8
University of Central Florida health sciences students recently received top recognition for research presentations illustrating the impact that developed technology and research can make in the lives of people with accessibility limitations. The research was performed in collaboration with Limbitless leadership and faculty and specifically focused on life improving technology for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and limb…
UCF domestic violence training program holds inaugural meeting
Tue Nov 8
The UCF Survivor Link Training Program, which aims to train students in cases of domestic violence, held its first-ever meeting with its social work master’s students Wednesday night. The members of the Survivor Link program met in a conference room inside the Violence Against Women Cluster suite inside UCF’s Classroom Building 1. This inaugural kickoff meeting marks the first…
UCF, OCPS Receive National Award for Teacher Preparation and Leadership Partnership
Tue Nov 8
With quality teachers in high demand, the partnership between UCF’s School of Teacher Education and Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) is an increasingly valuable and innovative resource for enhancing teacher recruitment, development and preparation. According to the Florida Department of Education, there were nearly 4,500 teacher vacancies for the 2021-22 school year. Such information is collected from each…
Faculty: Please be Vigilant in Storm Preparations
Mon Nov 7
Another tropical storm system is approaching Florida. Please be vigilant and consider your preparations for home and work now. Campus operations are currently normal. This evening, based on the latest forecasts for Subtropical Storm Nicole, UCF will update the campus community on plans for classes and operations. As we saw with Hurricane Ian, weather conditions can change rapidly.…
UCF Closed Wednesday and Thursday in Anticipation of Tropical Storm Nicole
Mon Nov 7
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2 p.m. Update In anticipation of Tropical Storm Nicole, UCF will suspend campus operations and all classes, including online classes, Wednesday, Nov. 9, and Thursday, Nov. 10. UCF is already scheduled to be closed on Friday, Nov. 11, in recognition of Veteran’s Day. All academic assignments, including for all classes with online…
UCF’s Optics Program Ranked Among Top 25 Best Global Universities
Thu Nov 3
UCF has once again been named one of the world’s top 25 universities for optics, recognizing CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, for excellence in research, international collaboration, and contributions to scientific literature. In U.S. News & World Report rankings released this week, UCF’s optics program ranks No. 24 among worldwide universities — positioning UCF among…
Theatre UCF’s As You Like It Explores Society and Identity with Love, Laughter and Music
Thu Nov 3
In Shakespeare’s niche comedy As You Like It, the character Jacques famously proclaims, “all the world’s a stage.” But in Theatre UCF’s production of the play, the world is reflected on stage with modern insight. Reimagined in 1930’s Europe, Theatre UCF’s As You Like It comments on the faults of society’s power structures without sacrificing hope and fun. Full…
The Native American Influence Among Us
Thu Nov 3
As a boy growing up in West Virginia, UCF history instructor Robert Clarke would spend his free time outside. In soil of the Ohio Valley, he’d use his fingers to pull stones from the ground. Some of them were little treasures: arrowheads. “I thought they were the coolest things ever,” Clarke says. The discovery of…
UCF Celebrates Veterans Month with Campus-wide Events
Wed Nov 2
November is National Veterans and Military Families Month. To honor all who served our nation, UCF is hosting a variety of veterans events and activities throughout the month, both on campus and virtually. “Veterans Month at UCF honors Americans of all races, creeds, ethnicities, genders, classes, and sexual orientations and their contribution to the nation…
UCF, OCPS Receive National Award for Teacher Preparation and Leadership Partnership
Wed Nov 2
With quality teachers in high demand, the partnership between UCF’s School of Teacher Education and Orange County Public Schools (OCPS is an increasingly valuable and innovative resource for enhancing teacher recruitment, development and preparation. According to the Florida Department of Education, there were nearly 4,500 teacher vacancies for the 2021-22 school year. Such information is…
UCF Selected for Worldwide Health Consortium
Wed Nov 2
The Washington DC-based non-profit organization was established in 2008 with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates and Rockefeller foundations and seeks to improve health and health equity across the globe. “UCF faculty are committed to improving the health and wellness of all,” said Dr. Deborah German, vice president for health affairs and dean of…
UCF Recognizes 6 Top Scholars as 2022 Luminary Award Winners
Wed Nov 2
Six faculty members were lauded for being leaders and making impacts in their fields during UCF’s annual Luminary Awards on Tuesday at Leu Gardens in Orlando. The Luminary Awards are designed to recognize some of UCF’s brightest stars who shine a positive light on UCF and on their respective fields, as well as illuminate a…
Student Takes on History Podcasting, Bringing the Past to New Audiences
Tue Nov 1
The word “history” often recalls images of documents, museums and artifacts from times long past. But students and instructors in UCF’s history department will tell you that history is housed in the memories and expertise of the people walking among us. Just look at the last five letters of the word — it’s a story…
