Student Research Week Kicks Off April 1

A record-breaking 800 plus students will be sharing their work during Student Research Week this year. For more than a decade, UCF has celebrated the endeavors of undergraduate and graduate students...

Cash up for Grabs for Best Student Elevator Speech About Research

Imagine earning cash for delivering an epic elevator pitch about your research. No need to imagine. Come check out UCF’s first 3MT Competition. Ten UCF students pursuing their doctoral degrees...

Asteroid Bennu Gives NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Team Lots of Surprises

Sometimes the unexpected is more exciting than finding exactly what you thought you’d find, and this is indeed the case for the science team involved in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sample mission....

Researchers Developing Sensor to Detect Brain Disorders in Seconds

Using nanotechnology, UCF researchers have developed the first rapid detector for dopamine, a chemical that is believed to play a role in various diseases such as Parkinson’s, depression and some...

A New Battle: Veterans More Likely to Have Heart Disease, UCF Study Finds

After the war is over, veterans face a new threat. They are more likely to have heart disease at a younger age than nonveterans, and this could herald a new...

UCF Graduate Programs Ranked Top 100 in the Nation

Twenty-seven of UCF's Graduate Programs were nationally ranked today in the top 100 of their fields by U.S. News & World Report, and 36 graduate programs total were included in the publication’s 2020...

30 Under 30 Graduate Knight Winners

UCF Alumni announced the recipients of the fifth annual 30 Under 30 Awards, and a few of our Graduate Knight Alumni made the list. These young alumni are chosen for...

Victimized Employees Don’t Get a Break, UCF Study Shows

As if being picked on wasn’t bad enough, victims of workplace mistreatment may also be seen as bullies themselves, even if they’ve never engaged in such behavior. Adding insult to...

UCF Research Laying Groundwork for Off-World Colonies

Before civilization can move off world it must make sure its structures work on the extraterrestrial foundations upon which they will be built. University of Central Florida researchers are already...

Researchers Develop First Supersymmetric Laser Array

A team of University of Central Florida researchers has overcome a long-standing problem in laser science, and the findings could have applications in surgery, drilling and 3D laser mapping. Using...