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UCF Book Festival accepting book submissions
The 4th annual UCF Book Festival/Orlando will be held at the UCF Arena on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The mission of the UCF Book Festival/Orlando is to encourage the appreciation of diverse and quality literature in addition to fostering and sustaining a love of reading. Annually, the festival draws thousands of readers of all ages […]
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Restored state funding vital to UCF’s future
By Tony Waldrop, UCF Provost and Executive Vice President Thanks to all our dedicated staff and faculty members, our students will enjoy countless opportunities this year to make significant contributions in the classroom, in research labs and studios, in our community – and maybe even in another galaxy. This summer, graduate students Kevin Stevenson and […]
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Save the Date: UCF Grad Fair
Individuals with a graduate degree earn about 30% more annually than individuals with a baccalaureate degree alone, according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau study. If you are interested in graduate school, clear your schedule now for Wednesday, September 12, when the University of Central Florida will host its annual Grad Fair. It will be […]
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UCF professor travels to Washington to support space, NASA
Once again, an administration’s plans for NASA face congressional criticism, scrutiny from a blue-ribbon panel and demandsfor more funds that set parts of the agency against one another. “You cannot have a public space agency without politics playing a role. That’s only right when the taxpayers are paying the bills,” says planetary scientist Daniel Britt of the University […]
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VIDEO: Exoplanet candidate UCF 1.01
Watch More News Videos at ABC2012 Presidential ElectionEntertainment & Celebrity News If you haven’t heard, UCF has detected what could be its first planet – UCF 1.01. The exoplanet, which is a planet that is orbiting a star other than our own Sun and is therefore not in our Solar System, is two-thirds the size […]
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UCF discovers exoplanet neighbor
The University of Central Florida has detected what could be its first planet, only two-thirds the size of Earth and located right around the corner, cosmically speaking, at a mere 33-light years away. The exoplanet candidate called UCF 1.01, is close to its star, so close it goes around the star in 1.4 days. The […]
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Omega Envoy Partners with Florida Space Institute
Omega Envoy, the Florida team competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP), and its parent company, Earthrise Space Inc. (ESI) are proud to welcome the Florida Space Institute (FSI) as a new partner. FSI will provide critical test and spacecraft integration equipment for the team’s use. This will include the use of a clean […]
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Florida Space Institute gets a new home
The Florida Space Institute is moving. The institute is moving from the Astronaut Memorial Foundation at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to new offices in the Partnership I building in the Central Florida Research Park. Dr. MJ Soileau, Vice President for Research & Commercialization, said “This move will enable the center to strengthen its ties to […]
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Support UCF Planetary Sciences this weekend
Can Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies prevent potentially deep cuts to NASA’s space exploration budget? With a possible $300 million cut to planetary science projects donating a dollar for a cookie might have the impact of a pebble striking Jupiter. But University of Central Florida students and professors who are […]
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Florida Space Institute funds research initiatives
Nine research projects that promise to advance science and develop technology critical for future space missions have been selected to receive a total of $400,000 from the Florida Space Institute. Scientists from the University of Central Florida and the University of Florida are involved in the various projects, which involve experts in chemistry, physics, electrical […]
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Check out the “From Earth to the Solar Systems” art exhibit
Breathtaking images of faraway planets and their moons, and pictures of meteors’ lasting impact on Earth are on display at the John C. Hitt Library. From Earth to the Solar Systems is a collection of images that showcases the excitement of planetary exploration and the quest to understand the origin and evolution of the solar […]
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NASA Selects 3 UCF Projects for Flight Opportunities Program
NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program has selected three University of Central Florida cutting-edge space technology projects for flights. The UCF projects were among 24 NASA chose for its program this month. NASA will pay for all projects to fly on a suborbital rocket, high-altitude balloon or on a parabolic airplane. UCF Associate Professor of Physics Joshua […]
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UCF wins green grant
The University of Central Florida is leading a team that just won $1.3 million in a national White House competition aimed at driving technology commercialization and entrepreneurship to support a “green innovation economy.” The Obama Administration Thursday announced the winning i6 Green Challenge projects from Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, New England and Washington. Each project […]
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Media highlight UCF
UCF’s faculty experts have recently been featured in reports from prominent national media such as the New York Times, USA Today, Reuters and more. NATIONAL The Chronicle: ‘U.S. News’ Plan to Rank Online Colleges Worries Some Officials The annual college rankings by U.S. News & World Report—demonized by many college leaders as being overly simplistic […]
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Board of Trustees elects new leaders
Two University of Central Florida alumni and longtime supporters are the new leaders of the UCF Board of Trustees. Trustees elected Michael J. Grindstaff to serve a two-year term as chair of the board on Thursday and Trustee Olga Calvet to a two-year term as vice chair. Grindstaff, of Winter Park, is a partner in […]
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European asteroid mission taps UCF expert
University of Central Florida Professor and international asteroid expert Humberto Campins is working with more than 100 fellow astrophysicists preparing for a European mission aimed at collecting an asteroid sample and returning it to earth.The Marco Polo-R Mission is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA), and NASA could participate later. The goal is […]
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UCF town hall on March 31
The University of Central Florida is hosting a town hall meeting on Thursday, March 31, about NASA’s planetary missions in the next decade. The public meeting is sponsored by the National Research Council, which just completed the Decadal Survey 2013-2022 for NASA and the National Science Foundation. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in […]
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Research from UCF professor published in Nature
A peculiar gas-giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 1200 light-years away is the first carbon-rich world ever observed. The implications are big for planetary chemistry, because without much oxygen, common rocks throughout the planet would be made of pure carbon, in forms such as diamonds or graphite. “On most planets, oxygen is abundant. It makes […]