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Around Campus Faculty and Staff Spotlight

UCF Expert on Emergency Management: It’s All About Helping People

Managing large disasters involves having robust plans and moving resources quickly to the right place. Often, it also means giving people a way to find closure. After the 2010 earthquake...
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Faculty and Staff Spotlight Research

Earth’s 2022 Valentine – An Asteroid Sharing Our Orbit

Earth has discovered it has a secret valentine — an asteroid called 2020 XL5. An international team of astronomers confirmed this week that the asteroid shares our planet’s orbit, only...
from left to right, Nicolas Berube, Subith Vasu, Artem Arakelyan, Jacklyn Higgs, Daniel Dyson, Sydney Briggs and Farhan Arafin.
Faculty and Staff Spotlight Research Student Spotlight

UCF Lands New Project to Study Effect of Rain on Hypersonic Travel

University of Central Florida researchers are part of a new $1 million project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to better understand and predict how and why...
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Research Student Spotlight

UCF Education Student 1 of 15 in the Nation Selected for NSF CADRE Fellowship

Shalece Kohnke, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in exceptional education, is one of 15 scholars nationwide named a 2022 DRK-12 (Discovery Research PreK-13) U.S. National Science Foundation CADRE Fellow. The...
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Faculty and Staff Spotlight Research

UCF to Lead $10M NASA Project to Develop Zero-Carbon Jet Engines

UCF is developing new technology that is expected to make airplane engines emission-free, potentially revolutionizing the aviation industry. UCF put together a team of experts and stakeholders to evaluate their...
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Around Campus Faculty and Staff Spotlight Research

$1 Million Grant to help Strengthen UCF’s Modeling and Simulation Program

any of tomorrow’s jobs haven’t been imagined yet, but those well versed in cutting-edge technologies, such as modeling and simulation will have the competitive edge. UCF’s School of Modeling, Simulation and...
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Research Student Spotlight

UCF Student Nanotech Team Designs Space Suit Material for NASA Competition

group of six University of Central Florida students and alums from a range of fields designed and won the Best Technical Poster award as finalists in NASA’s recent Lunar Dust...
advanced high-speed propulsion systems, lunar landing pads that self-assemble, a rotorcraft lander that will travel to Saturn’s moon Titan and sails for solar-powered space travel.
Around Campus Faculty and Staff Spotlight Research

UCF Researchers Are Designing the Next Generation of Space Tech

University of Central Florida researchers are helping develop the next generation of space technology and vehicles for missions back to the Moon and beyond. This range of technology includes advanced high-speed...
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Faculty and Staff Spotlight Research

Face Masks Cut Distance Airborne Pathogens Could Travel in Half, New Study Finds

The effectiveness of face masks has been a hotly debated topic since the emergence of COVID-19. However, a new study by researchers at the University of Central Florida offers more...
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Around Campus Research

From the ‘Smithsonian’ Magazine to the Tonight Show, UCF Research has a Big Year in the News

UCF research stories were everywhere in 2021 from Smithsonian magazine to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The most popular research stories of 2021 focused on threats to our survival and opportunities to...
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