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UCF Hosts Spring Graduation Celebration, April 30 to May 9

The Spring 2021 celebration provides this semester’s graduates with the option of participating in a more intimate Grad Walk or a smaller-than-normal commencement ceremony with regalia, speakers, and degree conferral....
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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...
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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...
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UCF Joins Project to Develop Composites for Spacecraft, NASA Missions

Sometimes big things come in small packages, and the new thin but strong materials the University of Central Florida is helping NASA develop are no exception. These materials, known as...
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Charge On, it’s National Battery Day

Far from the triple As you have to scramble to find during hurricane season, the battery technology being developed at UCF is much more advanced than the daily essentials. Professor...
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NSF Awards UCF $2.9 Million to Train Next Generation of Cybersecurity Defenders

The University of Central Florida has been awarded a nearly $2.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to provide cybersecurity scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students. Scholarship recipients...
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NASA Selects UCF Honeybee-inspired Spacesuit Material Design for Further Development

NASA has selected a University of Central Florida nanotechnology team as one of seven university groups from around the country tasked with developing ways to stop the negative effects of...
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UCF-Developed Seawater Battery is Safer for People and Environment

University of Central Florida researchers have helped develop a new, seawater-based battery that’s safer for humans and the environment than the fire-prone lithium-ion batteries that power everything from cell phones...
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Student Scholar Symposium Deadline Near

Submissions are open for the Student Scholar Symposium, UCF's largest research event of the year! The deadline to apply to present your research and creative scholarship is Monday, February 8,...
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UCF Genetics Expertise Extends to the Land Down Under

The genetic expertise of University of Central Florida researchers is extending all the way to the land down under in a new study of a unique animal of Australia’s waters...
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