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For Those Who Dream of Space, UCF is the Place
Space university – who wouldn’t want to go there? The same year that the United States’ Apollo 8 mission first sent humans to orbit the moon, the University of Central...
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Apollo 11 Shaped UCF Scientist, Nation and World’s Love Affair with Space
If the Apollo 11 mission had never happened, UCF scientist and alum Phil Metzger ’00MS ’05PhD may never have pursued a career that today has him working on ways to mine water from the...
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UCF Engineering Chair Named Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
Sudipta Seal, PhD, an engineering professor and chair of UCF’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, one of the oldest...
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NASA Awards $7.5 Million to UCF’s Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science
NASA awarded a $7.5 million grant to UCF’s Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS), helping secure the next five years of the center’s bright future. “This win goes a long...
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UCF Method Could Make More Light Wavelengths Available for Scientific Tools
A new technique from researchers with the University of Central Florida could make more light wavelengths available for a number of scientific applications, including biochemistry, metrology, and spectroscopy. Their findings...
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NASA’s New Horizons Mission: It’s Only Getting More Mysterious
NASA’s New Horizons mission continues to fly toward the outer edges of our solar system, now more than 4.1 billion miles from Earth with a cruising speed of 33,000 mph....
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College of Graduate Studies Makes Funds Available to Help Students Publish their Journal Articles
The College of Graduate Studies has launched a pilot program to help students and postdoctoral scholars get their research published in open access journals. Awards of up to $1,500 are...
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New Study on Gene Editing in Wildlife Finds People Are Wary
The applications of CRISPR based genetic engineering tools range from changing colors in butterfly wings to developing gene therapies that might one day cure or prevent human diseases. Some scientists...
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UCF is Part of NASA Cassini Mission That Reveals New Details about Saturn’s Rings
Even though NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s mission to Saturn ended in 2017, scientists are still poring over the copious amounts of data it transmitted. Now, in a new paper that appeared...
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