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UCF Director of Space Medicine Advises Others: Fly High, Reach the Sky!
From sleeping on her apartment floor as an early career physician to preparing astronauts for spacewalks, Esther Beltran has never given up following her passions. Her advice to others: Never...![Featured Content image](https://graduate.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2021/03/ucf-walters.jpg)
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Florida Academy of Sciences Names UCF Biologist as 2021 Medalist
The Florida Academy of Sciences today named UCF Biology Professor Linda Walters its 2021 Medalist during its annual conference. The Academy, which is an affiliate of the American Association for...![Featured Content image](https://graduate.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2021/03/AdobeStock_332817642.jpg)
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Sensor Testing Company Expands, Graduates Out of UCF’s Business Incubation Program
UCF’s Business Incubation saw one of its high-tech clients graduate and move to a bigger location this month, where it expects to grow and hire half a dozen employees with...![Featured Content image](https://graduate.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2021/03/ciemarketing_86808713_Small.jpg)
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A First-of-its-Kind Camera to Investigate the Moon’s South Pole
A thermal infrared camera aboard a lunar lander scheduled to head to the moon as early as 2022 could help determine which regions on the lunar surface have water trapped...![Featured Content image](https://graduate.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2021/03/WEBDylan_control_room.jpg)
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Polarization: From Better Sunglasses to a Better Way of Looking at Asteroid Surfaces
Using the same principles that make polarized sunglasses possible, a team of researchers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have developed a technique that will help better defend against...![Featured Content image](https://graduate.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2021/03/nuisance_flooding_for_web.jpg)
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Coastal Changes Worsen Nuisance Flooding on Many U.S. Shorelines, Study Finds
Nuisance flooding has increased on U.S. coasts in recent decades due to sea-level rise, and new research co-authored by the University of Central Florida uncovered an additional reason for its...![Featured Content image](https://graduate.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2021/03/ucf-graduation-spring-2021.jpg)
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UCF Hosts Spring Graduation Celebration, April 30 to May 9
The Spring 2021 celebration provides this semester’s graduates with the option of participating in a more intimate Grad Walk or a smaller-than-normal commencement ceremony with regalia, speakers, and degree conferral....![Featured Content image](https://graduate.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2018/05/ucf_10691265.jpg)
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Alert, Temporary Change in Office of Academic Support Services, Progress, and Graduation
College of Graduate Studies Associate Dean Barbara Fritzsche is serving as Interim Director of Academic Support Services, Progress and Graduation while the college seeks to fill the position. Below is...![Featured Content image](https://graduate.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2021/03/WEBTheodora-Karalidi.jpg)
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Toy Telescope Launches Career Hunting for Life on Exoplanets
It all started with an inexpensive toy telescope Theodora Karalidi’s father gave her when she was five years old. “I looked through it and I was wowed,” says Karalidi, an...![Featured Content image](https://graduate.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2021/03/dragonfly_for_web.jpg)
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