UCF Counselors Offer Tips for Managing Stress During Difficult Holiday Season

Even in the best of times, the holidays can be a stressful period. The global pandemic and all the disruptions it has caused in 2020 have made it even more...

UCF’s Top 10 Research Stories for the Year Reflect Turbulent Nature of 2020

The world was dealt some major blows in 2020, and this was reflected in what made the list of Top 10 research news stories from the University of Central Florida....

College of Community Innovation and Education Student Wins UCF 3MT Research Competition

Presentations on interrupting the achievement gap of students, technology for cooling devices, and understanding near-earth asteroids received the top prizes this year at UCF’s annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition....

Sea Turtle Nesting Season Winding Down, Some Numbers are Up and It’s Unexpected

Florida’s sea turtle nesting surveying comes to a close on Halloween and like everything else in 2020, the season was a bit weird. The number of green sea turtle nests...

OSIRIS REx Ready to for Touch-n-Go Maneuver on Tuesday, Oct. 20

Four years after it launched, NASA’s OSIRIS REx NASA mission is closing in on its big day. On Oct. 20, the spacecraft is scheduled to complete its touch-and-go move to...

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....

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...

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...

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....