Recent Graduates Earn Scholarships, Present at Governor’s Hurricane Conference

Five UCF students and recent graduates received a full scholarship to attend the annual Governor’s Hurricane Conference this week. The conference draws hundreds of emergency management personnel, first-responders and planners...

UCF’s Annual Nighttime Sea Turtle Surveys Begin, Team Launches Genetics Project

While DNA testing may be a fun way to track down family history, UCF researchers are using DNA to figure out how diverse the gene pool is among the green...

6 Faculty Members Receive National Science Foundation CAREER Grants

The National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development program recently awarded six UCF faculty members CAREER grants. The recipients represent some of the most promising early career scientists and engineers with high...

Researchers Prospecting for Mining-Outpost Site on Moon

With space set to be the site of the next “gold rush,” UCF researchers are helping prospect a spot for a major first step in the upcoming scramble – creating...

UCF Researchers Bring 1755 Literary Work into Digital Age

In the 1700s, scholars envisioned a new kind of all-encompassing dictionary that would help preserve the ever-changing English language before some words and their meanings were lost to time. Now...

Blue Origin Launch Marks UCF’s Fourth Flight into Space This Year

The successful flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket this morning from west Texas carried multiple research payloads, including one from the UCF. It marks the fourth flight into space...

U.S. Southeast Coast Facing High Threat in Next 10 Years

New research shows 75 percent of the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Central Florida will be highly vulnerable to erosion and inundation from rising tides by 2030, negatively impacting...

Observatory Releases Next Puzzle for New Arecibo Message – Global Challenge

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico marked Earth Day on Monday by releasing its second puzzle challenge as part of the New Arecibo Message – Global Challenge. Dozens of teams from...

Graduate Student Research Honors at the State Level

Successful UCF graduate students from this year's Graduate Research Forum and 3-Minute Thesis Competitions presented their research and competed for top honors in the state this week at the Statewide...

Three UCF Professors Headline Orlando’s First Taste of Science Festival

Orlando will host its first Taste of Science Festival on April 22-23 as part of an annual national event geared at encouraging public discourse about science and its impact on...