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UCF researcher featured in the New York Times
Fountains of Optimism for Life Way Out There from The New York Times For those who hunt for life on other worlds, water in its liquid form is perhaps the leading indicator. Life as we know it on Earth is based on water and carbon. And if organisms can prosper here in nasty environments — in […]
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Inaugural ICRC conference
Attendees and participants in the 2011 International Crisis and Risk Communication conference included those who had traveled from Korea, the UK, and from all over the USA. They included scholars, researchers, graduate students, professionals, public sector leaders, defense and military authorities, top managers of major businesses and government agencies. One of the most significant aspects of […]
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Nanotechnology journal highlights UCF research
Research from UCF scientists was highlighted in the IOP Science Nanotechnology journal in the electronics and photonic category. You can view it by clicking here. Nanotechnology encompasses the understanding of the fundamental physics, chemistry, biology and technology of nanometre-scale objects. The article, “High Yield Fabrication of Chemically Reduced Graphene Oxide Field Effect Transistors by Dielectrophoresis,” was […]
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Faculty staff campaign
This year’s faculty and staff contributions in the College of Sciences not only reached the expected goal, but exceeded it dramatically. Last year, COS raised just over $28,000 and this year COS came in at over $42,000! The college’s participation stayed fairly consistent down 1% from last year and COS hopes to boost that next […]
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Student research work recognized with awards
Several students from the College of Sciences were recently awarded for their hard work at the 2011 UCF Graduate Research Forum. Their official award was for outstanding presentations. Joanna Fletcher, an Anthropology student, won for her research titled “Monitoring the Applicability of Ground-Penetrating Radar on Detecting Shallow Graves Using Proxy Cadavers.” William Hawkins, an Anthropology […]
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UCF Journalism Students Launch Campus Magazine
Twenty students at the University of Central Florida have pooled their talents and created the university’s first student-produced magazine. Centric was founded this spring by students enrolled in the Magazine Editing and Production course offered by the Nicholson School of Communication. The magazine was created under the mentorship of Instructor Rick Brunson. “This is very […]
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Students, biologists trying to save Turtle Mound
A team of University of Central students and biologist are seeking volunteers to help save Turtle Mound, a Native American shell mound within the Canaveral National Seashore in New Smyrna Beach. The project, which runs Saturday and Sunday, is one of six national finalists in the 2011 Field & Stream Magazine and Toyota Hero for […]
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UCF Professor, Tom Clancy’s Co-Writer
Peter Telep isn’t your average professor. By day, Telep teaches screenwriting, creative writing and fiction writing at the University of Central Florida. By night, he’s a New York Times best-selling author and the most recent collaborator of Tom Clancy, the renowned author of international thrillers. He co-authored Clancy’s newest book “Against All Enemies,” to be […]
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Florida today feature UCF students’ research
Biologists who study Mosquito Lagoon’s oyster reefs keep seeing sea squirts they suspect may be an exotic species somehow transplanted from Panama. This little squirt adds to a long, growing list of species that may harm the habitats of natives to the Indian River Lagoon — another current worry of environmentalists and others. Biologists don’t […]
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Orlando pushes ahead of Miami in economic growth
Orlando is leading Florida out of recession and expanding so briskly the city best known for theme parks is poised to push aside Miami as the state’s fastest growing metropolis for at least a generation. Beyond globally famous Disney World and a massive lodging sector, Orlando in central Florida is benefiting from above average jobs […]
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UCF wins $250,000 grant for blended classes
The University of Central Florida is developing a national model for blended learning, a practice that combines web-based learning with traditional classroom instruction. The Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) awarded UCF a $250,000 grant, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others. NGLC is coordinated by EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit group that promotes the […]
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Betsy Von Holle talks with ScienceWatch.com
Betsy Von Holle talks with ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions about this month’s Emerging Research Front paper in the field of Environment/Ecology. Why do you think your paper is highly cited? Prior to our study, scientists believed that a primary reason for success of nonnative species in a given habitat was the diversity of […]
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Year After Gulf Oil Spill, Dolphin Deaths Up
Graham Worthy, an expert ondolphins who ran Texas’s Marine Mammal Stranding Network for a decade and continues to monitor the Gulf of Mexico will be available to media today, the one-year anniversary of the nation’s largest oil spill. Worthy, a professor at the University of Central Florida, is analyzing data from his most recent survey […]
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First Place at the State Science & Engineering Fair
Dr.Yan Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Astronomy Department of Physics, worked with his UCF student Jean-Marc Denis to help a high school student, Tana Hanberry, win first place at the State Science & Engineering Fair. The group focuses onresearch. Hanberry’s project involves studying the properties of serendipitously-observed asteroids in archival CCD imaging datasets. She won in the Earth and Planetary Science […]
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Math paper explores new science, gets most downloads
“Reconstruction of planar Conductivities in subdomains from incomplete data” that was co-authored by Dr. Alexandru Tamasan made the top 20 articles fully downloaded earlier this year on the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics website. This mathematical paper concerns a new noninvasive method to quantitatively measure the electrical conductivity in a body. The method combines two […]
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From Touch Tanks to Movies, UCF’s Service-Learning Delivers Science
College students in a marine conservation class created a touch tank so pre-K students could see the diversity that exists in a nearby watershed. Another group cast fifth-graders at Carillon Elementary School in a movie that explains why it is important to recycle. These are just two examples of how service-learning is incorporated into science […]
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Physics professor sited as expert in Orlando Sentinel
From Mike Thomas of the Orlando Sentinel. By the time Challenger exploded in 1986, it was painfully obvious the shuttle could not provide the routine access to space that we were promised. But because of the huge investment and lack of alternatives, we were locked into a lemon. The space station was designed in the […]
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Video featuring UCF professor from the Orlando Sentinel
Scientists around the world are documenting increasingly severe invasions of ascidians — which survive by consuming plankton filtered from the surrounding seawater — and which are overpowering oysters, mussels and clams, also filter feeders. Possibilities for why that’s happening include rising sea temperatures brought on by climate change; worsening water pollution; and overharvesting of the […]
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Marketing major competes in national surf competition
With the East Coast Championships about to get underway, it was an excellent time to chat with University of Central Florida team captain Amy Nicholl. The 21-year-old from New Smyrna Beach, Florida is a National Champion and has won multiple East Coast Regional and Conference titles in both individual and college divisions. Amy recently added another […]
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Students win national ethics bowl
The tensions were high at the National Ethics Bowl. Senior ethics bowl team member Catherine Perrault checked her pulse; it was at a constant 80 BPM. She knew she was ready. An hour and a half filled with arguing and critiquing had passed and after discovering the judge’s scores, the team discovered they had won. […]
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Students continue the fight to save Arboretum
UCF has requested the release of 7.85 acres of land protected by a conservation easement from the St. Johns Water Management District. This area is a portion of the 82-acre Arboretum that educates students and the community about nature and protects the environment. Patrick Bohlen, Arboretum director since the fall of 2010, said this area […]
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UCF alum Marla Weech joins Central Florida News 13
From Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel Where’s Marla Weech? That long-running mystery was solved Tuesday, when the longtime Orlando anchor joined Central Florida News 13. Her on-air debut should come in late April. “I will be so excited to be back on Central Florida airwaves,” said Weech, who will be a reporter and a […]
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Sea creature threatens oysters
A mysterious sea creature ofunknown origins has been found in Indian River Lagoon in Brevard County. The creature that looks like bunched up bright red daisy petals is an ascidian, better known as a sea squirt. But exactly how it gotinto the lagoon and where it came from has researchers puzzled. The only thing scientists […]
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Professor helps native country
When John Malala looks at his home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, it’s not the same country he remembers. The fertile, resourceful land, is now impoverished and war torn. But he has hope since starting the John Malala Dignity Foundation in 2007. The foundation attempts to help the Congolese become educated and self-reliant. Malala, […]
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Equine therapy helps human career performance
Dr. Sandra Wise and Dean Van Camp share a light moment with their class, which includes students in the Masters program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Central Florida and Mental Health Counseling at Rollins College, while their equine teaching accomplices look on. “The Broussards have been unbelievably supportive of the program,” Wise said, […]
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Land your dream job at COMM day, April 8
Students from the Nicholson School of Communication are invited to network with industry professionals and connect with faculty and alumni at the school’s COMM day, which will provide students with tips to improve their job search skills. Events will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 8, at the FAIRWINDS Alumni Center. The […]
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New UCF research program
A pioneering program is coming to UCF where first year students will live and learn together while becoming research apprentices, an experience usually reserved for juniors and seniors. The Learning Environment and Academic Research Network (L.E.A.R. N.) will provide a living and learning community where students will live in a residence hall and take three […]
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Professor featured in Orlando Sentinel
We first wrote about Dr. Deborah Beidel’s new research study a few months ago and are thrilled that several news organizations are becoming aware of her amazing project. Linda Shrieves of the Orlando Sentinel wrote this piece about the project that will combine virtual-reality simulation of wartime scenes with the smells of Middle East combat zones in […]
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UCF on Discovery News
Robots can solve puzzles, assist with surgery, and even stand in for caregivers, but ask one to handle potato chips without crushing them and humans still prevail. Robotic hands just aren’t sensitive enough. A new material dubbed “frozen smoke” could be the skin they need for a lighter touch. “It’s a kind of very light […]
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Miniature laser diode aims to speed up networking
The use of laser as a means of data transmission is hardly anything new, but the current crop of laser diodes can only handle so much stress, provided that they don’t fail in the first place. Luckily, the geniuses over at the University of Central Florida are about to deliver a smaller yet more intense […]