Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Urban Planning

Before you ever step into a new coffee shop, years of urban planning have gone into building that brick-and-mortar building in your neighborhood. Urban planning is a multi-faceted discipline in...

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....

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...

AI Can Detect COVID-19 in the Lungs Like a Virtual Physician, New Study Shows

A University of Central Florida researcher is part of a new study showing that artificial intelligence can be nearly as accurate as a physician in diagnosing COVID-19 in the lungs....

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...

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...

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...

Graduate Student Association Results

Please join us in congratulating the following graduate students for being elected as your Graduate Student Association Officers for 2020-2021. Rija Akbar President Atiyah Appline Vice President Dotun Banjo Treasurer...

New Study: Face-Covering Use Up, More People Are Taking COVID-19 Threats Seriously

A new National Science Foundation-funded survey of six states has found that during the past two months, more people are wearing masks, vaccine uncertainty is on the rise, and many...

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....