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  • Sociology Podcasts Further Scholarship, Teach Skills

    Two recently debuted podcasts are increasing awareness about sociology while simultaneously providing valuable skills to students. The podcasts come from the classroom of Associate Professor Ramon Hinojosa, Ph.D. Free the Mind Free the People, is a student-led podcast that tackles major questions about the inner workings of society by drawing from core sociological concepts. “They […]

    Posted: November 13th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Notables, Sociology, Top News
  • The India Center Co-hosts International Joint Seminar

    By ARIANNA LESTRADE The India Center at UCF, in collaboration with Karlstad University in Sweden, hosted a virtual seminar on “Social Responsibility and Human Security in India.” India Center Interim Director Kerstin Hamann, Ph.D., and India Center Director of Public Affairs Leila Chacko,opened the event and introduced the speakers, and Karlstad University Associate Professor Kristian […]

    Posted: November 13th, 2022
    Filed under: News, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, The India Center
  • New Study of Comets Provides Insight into Chemical Composition of Early Solar System

    A new study from the University of Central Florida has found strong support that the outgassing of molecules from comets could be the result of the composition from the beginning of our solar system. The results were published today in The Planetary Science Journal. The study was led by Olga Harrington Pinto, a doctoral candidate […]

    Posted: November 4th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Physics, Planetary Sciences, Top News
  • UCF Recognizes 6 Top Scholars as 2022 Luminary Award Winners

    Six faculty members were lauded for being leaders and making impacts in their fields during UCF’s annual Luminary Awards on Tuesday at Leu Gardens in Orlando. The Luminary Awards are designed to recognize some of UCF’s brightest stars who shine a positive light on UCF and on their respective fields, as well as illuminate a […]

    Posted: November 2nd, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Notables, Physics, Top News, UCF News
  • The India Center Celebrates Diwali with Orange County Community

      On Oct. 17, 2022, the India Center celebrated Diwali with Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings at the Orange County Administration building in downtown Orlando.  It was the second year the India Center collaborated with the Asian Cultural Association, the Orange County Asian Committee, FusionFest and Demings to present “Diwali: The Festival of Lights Celebration”. […]

    Posted: October 27th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, The India Center, Top News
  • New $1.25 Million Research Project Will Map Materials at the Nanoscale

    A University of Central Florida researcher will lead a recently announced $1.25 million project to map and manipulate materials at the nanoscale. The project’s funding is through the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a philanthropic foundation established by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty Moore to support scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care […]

    Posted: October 27th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Physics, Research, Top News, UCF News
  • The India Center Hosts ‘An Evening with Kal Penn’

    The India Center at UCF welcomed actor, writer, producer and public servant Kal Penn for a book reading and discussion on Sept. 26, 2022.  Associate Dean Kerstin Hamann, Ph.D., interim director of the India Center, and Leila Chacko, director of public affairs of the India Center, welcomed the speaker and the audience of approximately 300 […]

    Posted: October 21st, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Notables, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, SPSIA, The India Center, Top News, UCF News
  • UCF’s Limbitless Solutions Named as a Global Finalist for the 2022 .ORG Impact Awards

    Limbitless Solutions has been named a finalist in the fourth annual .ORG Impact Awards. The global awards program is hosted by the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to celebrate inspiring mission-driven organizations and leaders from around the globe that create a positive impact in their communities. Limbitless Solutions is one of five finalists in the Health […]

    Posted: October 14th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Nicholson School of Communication and Media, Top News, UCF News
  • New NASA-funded Study Hopes to Put Risks of Space Junk on People’s Radar

    Space may seem infinite but the real estate in Earth’s orbit is filling up fast with junk. The debris orbiting the Earth consists of human-made objects that no longer serve a purpose and range from fragments of metal to nonfunctioning spacecraft and abandoned rocket stages. This space junk can endanger spacecraft and damage satellites that […]

    Posted: October 13th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Physics, Research, Top News, UCF News
  • Ph.D. Candidate Returns from Training Ukrainians to Finish Dissertation on NATO

    By TAD SCHNAUFER A quote attributed to Albert Einstein reads, “Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.” As Russian Forces started to build up on the Ukrainian border last year, many Securities Studies students watched closely. In Ukraine, at the time, SPSIA Ph.D. Candidate in […]

    Posted: October 11th, 2022
    Filed under: News, Security Studies, SPSIA, Top News
  • UCF Student Serving Survivors of Genocidal Violence

    By Léa Faure Sinjar Academy, based in the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq, provides educational services to Yezidis and other minorities affected from the 2014 genocide. It is a community that emerged from a grassroot organization aiming to help students develop different skills via various courses: computer programming, filming, transitional justice, and their most recent […]

    Posted: September 26th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, Kurdish Political Studies Program, News, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs
  • UCF Professor Moonlights as Serial Marathoner

    UCF Associate Professor of Chemistry Seth Elsheimer’s journey to running more than 300 marathons starts with “just a little farther.” Elsheimer was an occasional runner when he encouraged two students in his organic chemistry class at UCF  to join him on a run, then sign up for a 5K race. The former football players were […]

    Posted: September 15th, 2022
    Filed under: Chemistry, COS News, Faculty News, News, Notables, Top News
  • ‘Son of a Sweeper’ Documentary Screening and Discussion

    By ARIANNA LESTRADE The India Center at UCF hosted Vimal Kumar, Ph.D., for an in-person screening and discussion of the documentary film Son of a Sweeper on Sept. 13, 2022. The film, made by Professor Lisa Mills, Ph.D., an India Center affiliate faculty member, highlights the work of Kumar, founder of the nongovernmental organization Movement […]

    Posted: September 15th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Nicholson School of Communication and Media, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, The India Center
  • Decades-Old Moon Samples Inform Modern Return to Moon

    By NIKITTA CAMPBELL Exploring an area in the Moon that was never visited before? That’s one of the tasks that Department of Physics planetary scientist and Assistant Professor Kerri Donaldson Hanna, Ph.D., has assisted NASA with since 2013. Donaldson Hanna and her team play a vital role in studying samples collected by the Apollo astronauts […]

    Posted: September 15th, 2022
    Filed under: News, Physics, Research, Top News
  • UCF Knights Are Part of NASA’s Artemis Program to Return to the Moon

    As the nation looks on this week to see the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft blast into space on its test flight, UCF faculty, students and alumni will only momentarily pause to watch the historic milestone before returning to what they do best — scientific discovery and developing the next generation of technology […]

    Posted: August 29th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, Faculty News, News, Notables, Physics, Planetary Sciences, Research, Top News
  • Robots, AI Not as Welcomed in Nations Where Income Inequity is High

    Robots are becoming more ubiquitous in the workplace but that doesn’t mean people are accepting them. In a new study by researchers with the University of Central Florida, workers in countries with greater amounts of income and social inequality were found to be more likely to perceive robots and artificial intelligence as job threats. This […]

    Posted: August 29th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, Faculty News, News, Psychology, Top News
  • James Webb Space Telescope Detects Carbon Dioxide on Planet Outside Solar System

    A University of Central Florida researcher is part of an international team that has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to capture definitive evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas-giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 700 light-years away. The finding was published online today and will appear in the journal Nature. […]

    Posted: August 25th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Physics, Planetary Sciences, Top News
  • UCF Doctoral Candidate Works to Create a ‘Bioassessment Toolkit’

    Dedicated to preserving ocean life at every scale, UCF doctoral candidate Ashley Reaume is working to create an efficient and cost-effective “bioassessment toolkit” that can be used to evaluate the impact of water quality on plankton communities. “Both plankton and estuaries play important roles in sustaining human life, providing us with ecosystem services like nutrient […]

    Posted: August 23rd, 2022
    Filed under: Biology, COS News, News, Research, Top News
  • Genetic Rescue of Florida Panthers May Have Had Unintended Consequences

    The introduction of Texas pumas to Florida in the 1990s as part of a genetic rescue may have helped save Florida panthers from extinction, but it also brought some harmful mutations with it along the way. In a new study led by UCF, researchers show that nearly half of the harmful mutations found in recent […]

    Posted: August 22nd, 2022
    Filed under: Biology, COS News, News, Research, Top News
  • 3 UCF Students Selected for 2022 Astronaut Scholarship

    Three UCF students have been awarded the highly competitive Astronaut Scholarships this year — raising the university’s student awards from the organization to 54 since 1989. Each year, over 60 students across the country are awarded up to $15,000 each through the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF). ASF awarded its first seven scholarships in 1986, sponsored […]

    Posted: August 11th, 2022
    Filed under: Awards, COS News, News, Physics, Top News
  • Annual Belize Trip Trains Students, Assists International Community

    Traveling to Hopkins Village, Belize, feels like a homecoming for Citizen Science GIS after six years of research and community work. Each summer brings a surprise, though. A new degree of urgency was injected into this year’s projects when Associate Professor Timothy Hawthorne, Ph.D., and the student team saw just how badly the beach had […]

    Posted: August 9th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, Faculty News, News, Research, Sociology, Top News
  • Summer ’22 PhD Graduates Given Warm Send-Off

    Doctorate graduates were given a warm and personal send-off Thursday in a longstanding College of Sciences tradition. Remarks by Dean Maggy Tomova, Ph.D., were followed by individual recognition of the Summer ’22 graduates in attendance. A toast sent them forward into their next milestones, which varied from academia to postdoctoral research and national laboratories. Click […]

    Posted: August 5th, 2022
    Filed under: Alumni News, Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, COS News, Forensic Science, Mathematics, News, Nicholson School of Communication and Media, Notables, Physics, Psychology, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, Sociology, Statistics and Data Science, Top News, UCF News
  • Recent UCF Graduates Have Accepted Tenure-track Positions at Top Universities

    Getting a tenure-track faculty position at a university has become harder, but several UCF recent graduates are beating the odds. For many students, an academic position is the goal. For others, it’s industry. Getting into academia is challenging. The American Association of University Professors reports tenured faculty positions have declined to approximately only 21% of […]

    Posted: August 2nd, 2022
    Filed under: Alumni News, COS News, News, Notables, Physics, Top News
  • UCF Student Selected for International Optica Women Scholars Award

    Isabella Pardo has been recognized as one of the first 20 Optica Women Scholars in the world. The award supports women majoring in optics, physics, chemistry, math, or engineering who are pursuing careers in optics and photonics. Launched this past January, the program received more than 160 applications from 36 countries from both undergraduate and […]

    Posted: July 18th, 2022
    Filed under: Physics, Top News
  • Survey Certificate Program Offers Useful Tools Across all Disciplines

    Asking the right questions is one of the key things Sandra Montenegro has taken from the Survey Certificate Program offered by the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs. The I/O psychology master’s student is studying ways to mitigate the emotional toll of bi-vocational church ministers. Often that stress stems from clergy switching between roles […]

    Posted: July 15th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Psychology, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, SPSIA, Top News
  • Nanodevice Work Recognized in Top Global Physics Publication

    A new research article on molecular devices is making its way to publication in one of the top five scientific journals in the world. The research article was published on the Advanced Materials website and acknowledges the work by Postdoctoral Associate Ran Liu, Ph.D. Physics and Pegsus Professor Enrique del Barco, Ph.D. Physics. Their research […]

    Posted: July 15th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Physics, Publications, Top News
  • UCF Researchers Eagerly Awaiting First James Webb Space Telescope Images

    UCF physics graduate student Olga Harrington Pinto is counting down the minutes until July 12. She is one of eight UCF researchers and one alumna who will be using the world’s mightiest space telescope as soon as NASA gives the go-ahead on Thursday. That’s when final checks on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) should […]

    Posted: July 12th, 2022
    Filed under: Alumni News, COS News, Featured, Graduate Student News, Physics, Planetary Sciences, Top News, UCF News
  • UCF Student Summer Project: Getting an Early Start on Space Rover Design

    Catherine Millwater has been dreaming of space long before arriving at UCF. In 2018, the eager 17-year-old reached out to UCF’s Planetary Sciences Group in hopes they had room for a high school student willing to learn how to be a researcher. Spoiler alert: They did. Millwater, who expects to graduate from UCF in May […]

    Posted: July 5th, 2022
    Filed under: Mathematics, Physics, Planetary Sciences, Top News
  • World Uniters: Five Knights Receive 2022 Fulbright Awards

    Over the coming months, planes carrying five UCF Knights will land on various runways thousands and thousands of miles from home. The five will stroll off those planes into the purpose of the Fulbright Program for which they’ve been selected: to work, live, and learn with others on the ground. For them, the ground will […]

    Posted: June 28th, 2022
    Filed under: PS UG Highlight, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, Top News, UCF News, Undergraduate Student News
  • Arecibo Observatory Scientists Help Unravel Surprise Asteroid Mystery

    When asteroid 2019 OK suddenly appeared barreling toward Earth on July 25, 2019, Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin and the team at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico jumped into action. After getting an alert, the radar scientists zoned in on the asteroid, which was coming from Earth’s blind spot — solar opposition. Zambrano-Marin and the team […]

    Posted: June 24th, 2022
    Filed under: COS News, News, Physics, Planetary Sciences, Top News
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