Faculty and Staff

UCF to Enhance Arecibo Observatory’s Computing Power Using Microsoft Azure

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico soon will get a major computing power upgrade as the University of Central Florida expands its relationship with Microsoft. UCF manages the National Science...

Study Finds State Disability Forms Not Complying with Federal Plain Language Act

With school in full swing, parents are signing the inevitable permission slips and forms covering everything from field trips to after school care. However, for parents of children with special...

UCF to Help Researchers Seeking to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

The University of Central Florida soon will become a resource for researchers in Florida, Puerto Rico and Latin America seeking an opportunity to use the new James Webb Space Telescope...

New Study Presents First Genome Sequence of Florida Panther

Once dwindling in numbers and suffering from the hereditary effects of inbreeding, the Florida panther is on the rebound, and researchers now have more genetic data to prove it. In...

UCF Engineering Professor Named National Technologist of the Year

UCF engineering Professor Pamela McCauley is no stranger to breaking barriers, but even she was surprised when she was named the 2019 Technologist of the Year by Women of Color magazine. This year is the...

NIH Awards UCF Researcher $3.8 Million to Study Opiate Overdoses

he National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that UCF will receive a $3.8 million milestone based grant to better understand how overdosing on opiates works, their impact on multiple...

UCF Achieves Another Strategic Goal – Helping Graduate Students

UCF welcomed more than 10,000 graduate students to campus this fall, a first in the university’s history. A total of 10,173 students are working toward a graduate degree this semester,...

UCF Launches Center for Ethics

UCF has launched a new Center for Ethics, the culmination of several years of work by dedicated faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities with the support of the...

NEH Grant to Help Faculty Learn to Explore, Document Digital Cultures and Their Impact on Society

YouTubers and trolls on social media can teach us a lot about our culture and societal shifts that are coming or already underway. While anthropologists might study society through artifacts...

Comet Gateway Discovered to Inner Solar System, May Alter Fundamental Understanding of Comet Evolution

A new study led by a University of Central Florida researcher may fundamentally alter our understanding of how comets arrive from the outskirts of the solar system and are funneled...