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UCF Graduate Students Land NASA Awards for Unique Experiments

Two physics students just landed two NASA awards that are giving the pair the opportunity to recreate the harsh cosmic conditions found on asteroids and comets in a lab at UCF....

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Faculty and Staff Spotlight Research

UCF Researcher Receives $1.7 Million NIH Grant

Kyu Young Han, an assistant professor in UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics, is the university’s first faculty member to be awarded the National Institutes of Health’s Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award...

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Around Campus Research

Full STEAM Ahead: Limbitless Solutions to Launch New High-Impact Research Facility

Big changes and even bigger possibilities are coming to Limbitless Solutions in 2021. Starting Oct. 1, Limbitless Solutions will begin renovating a 6,500-foot space in Central Florida Research Park adjacent...

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Events and Announcements Funding Opportunities Research

Office of Research Offers Second Round of $1 Million Seed Funding to Faculty

The UCF Office of Research and the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs have pooled $1 million in seed funding to help faculty conducting research, which could lead to...

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Asteroid Bennu Continues to Surprise Scientists

If UCF Physics Professor Humberto Campins was a betting man, he should run out and play the lottery. The planetary scientist, who is an international expert on asteroids, predicted a...

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Around Campus Research

UCF Research Annual Report Released

The UCF Office of Research today published its online 2019 annual report, which includes research stories from each college and a statistical breakdown of sponsored research for the fiscal year....

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Learning is a Challenge, Even for Scientists

UCF Professor Stephen Fiore has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study how faculty from many disciplines work together in an effort to better prepare future researchers for...

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Animals’ Magnetic ‘Sixth’ Sense May Come from Bacteria, New Paper Suggests

A University of Central Florida researcher is co-author of a new paper that may help answer why some animals have a magnetic “sixth” sense, such as sea turtles’ ability to...

Postdoctoral Scholars Research

UCF Researcher Awarded NASA Grant to Study Little Understood trans-Neptunian Objects

Florida Space Institute Planetary Scientist Estela Fernández-Valenzuela has been awarded a $315,700 NASA grant to use modern-day technology to analyze one of the oldest and least understood objects of our...

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Faculty and Staff Spotlight Research

UCF Researchers Are Developing Models to Predict Storm Surges

Storm surges sometimes can increase coastal sea levels 10 feet or more, jeopardizing communities and businesses along the water, but new research from the University of Central Florida shows there...

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