UCF Offers Free Nature-themed VR and AR Applications to Help Students and Those Isolated Because of COVID-19

UCF is offering a free virtual reality environment and augmented reality app to help teachers supplement science lessons and provide some stress relief for those isolated because of the COVID-19...

UCF Researchers Develop AI to Detect Fentanyl and Derivatives Remotely

To help keep first responders safe, University of Central Florida researchers have developed an artificial intelligence method that not only rapidly and remotely detects the powerful drug fentanyl, but also...

UCF Researchers Generate Attosecond Light from Industrial Laser

niversity of Central Florida researchers are making the cutting-edge field of attosecond science more accessible to researchers from all disciplines. Their method to help open up the field is detailed...

UCF Sets Research-Funding Record of $204.5 Million

UCF hit a milestone in sponsored research funding in 2020, generating $204.5 million by the close of the fiscal year. That’s up from $192.1 million last year and a 40 percent increase...

Arecibo Observatory Data Help Lead to Discovery of Cosmic ‘Heartbeat’

An international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope have discovered what they call a “gamma-ray heartbeat” coming from a cosmic gas cloud. The...

$1 Million Grant to Help Advance Machine Vision-Learning Technology

Engineering Professor Mubarak Shah was recently awarded a $1 million grant to advance his cutting-edge work in the area of machine vision learning (artificial intelligence) and develop a system to...

New Study Suggests ADHD- like Behavior Helps Spur Entrepreneurial Activity

Many people have experienced a few nights of bad sleep that resulted in shifting attention spans, impulsive tendencies, and hyperactivity the next day—all behaviors resembling ADHD.  A new study found...

Interim Director of UCF’s School of Modeling, Simulation and Training to Return to Private Sector Later this Month

Wes Naylor, the interim director of UCF’s School of Modeling, Simulation and Training (SMST), is leaving Aug. 17 to return to his private-sector job. “My position was always of an interim...

Broken Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory

One of the auxiliary cables that helps support a metal platform in place above the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, broke on Monday (Aug. 10) causing a 100-foot-long gash on...

New DOD Award Honors UCF Researcher for Transformative Idea During Pandemic

Ayman Abouraddy, a professor in UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics, has been awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic. “The idea of...