UCF Professor Uses Art to Call for Change

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is a renowned interdisciplinary artist and associate professor who seeks to use art as a medium for social awareness and change. As a woman of Puerto Rican descent, she creates...

A Holistic Look at Aging Populations: Technology to Anticipate Fall Rates

Nursing Assistant Professor Ladda Thiamwong works with elderly patients and tackles one of the most pressing issues facing this population: the mental and physical instability surrounding life-threatening falls. With the...

SEEDing Research Forum to Give Taste of New Research Underway at UCF

Students and faculty who want to hear about exciting new research underway at UCF can get updates about several projects during the SEEDing Research Forum, a new addition to Student Research...

New UCF Nanotech Gives Boost to Detection of Cancer and Disease

Early screening can mean the difference between life and death in cancer and disease diagnosis. That’s why the University of Central Florida researchers are working to develop a new screening...

Math Professor is ‘Rock Star’ in the World of Physics, Thanks to New Stellar Wind Model

Not many people may imagine that expertise in applied mathematics would make someone a “rock star.” But UCF mathematics Professor Bhimsen Shivamoggi is certainly a celebrity in the world of...

UCF Director of Space Medicine Advises Others: Fly High, Reach the Sky!

From sleeping on her apartment floor as an early career physician to preparing astronauts for spacewalks, Esther Beltran has never given up following her passions. Her advice to others: Never...

Florida Academy of Sciences Names UCF Biologist as 2021 Medalist

The Florida Academy of Sciences today named UCF Biology Professor Linda Walters its 2021 Medalist during its annual conference. The Academy, which is an affiliate of the American Association for...

Polarization: From Better Sunglasses to a Better Way of Looking at Asteroid Surfaces

Using the same principles that make polarized sunglasses possible, a team of researchers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have developed a technique that will help better defend against...

Toy Telescope Launches Career Hunting for Life on Exoplanets

It all started with an inexpensive toy telescope Theodora Karalidi’s father gave her when she was five years old. “I looked through it and I was wowed,” says Karalidi, an...

UCF Researcher is Part of Team that Will Send Rotorcraft to Saturn’s Moon, Titan

The helicopter that arrived on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as part of the Mars 2020/Perseverance mission is not the only rotorcraft NASA is sending into space. A team...