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Nicholson School Hosts Largest Conference Yet
ICRCC 2016 – Nicholson School of Communication (Orlando) – Nearly 150 crisis communication professionals and scholars from around the world converged at UCF as the Nicholson School of Communication hosted the 6th Annual International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference (ICRCC), March 7-9. And by all accounts, it was the largest attendance in the six years […]
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UCF Gains Chemistry through Skype-Casting
On Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016, Romain Gaume, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Optics and Phototonics at UCF, gave a lecture on the science and art of glass that was presented in person to UCF chemistry students and simultaneously Skype-cast to over 40 of their peers at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. The following Saturday students […]
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Behind the Scenes of NSC’s Late-Night Talk Show
Story by Gabrielle Russon, Contact Reporter Orlando Sentinel Every week, a dozen UCF students sit at a square table with their laptops, reading stories on media websites. Like a pinball machine, they shoot headlines and jokes at each other, back and forth, until something sticks. “If we laugh at it, somebody else has got to […]
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UCF Chemistry Hosts First Conclave
On Saturday, April 2, 2016, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Central Florida Student chapters at UCF, Rollins, Stetson, and FIT hosted the first annual American Chemical Society Florida Chemistry Conclave (ACSFCC) at the UCF Orlando main campus. The Conclave was a free, one-day, professional-development workshop. Students from across the state gathered in Orlando for a day filled with research, networking, […]
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Statistics Brings the Big Data
Big Data is the estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes of data that we create per day from conducting our daily lives; posting on social media, using rewards cards at stores, making insurance claims, surfing the internet, etc. On March 28, the UCF Statistics Department hosted its sixth annual Big Data Analytics Symposium. During the symposium, professionals […]
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Big Data Win for UCF Math Lecturer
UCF Mathematics lecturer, Aaron Smith, Ph.D., was awarded first place in the 2016 EverBank Cup Contest at the Big Data Analytics Symposium on March 28, 2016. The 4th annual EverBank Cup Contest recognizes outstanding achievement in data mining and analytics made by Florida higher education students. Dr. Smith, a SAS Data Mining Certificate student at […]
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Hot Summer Nights in Roman Egypt
Join Anthropology Lecturer, Lana Williams, Ph.D., on Tuesday, April 26, as she talks about seasonality in conception, birth, and death and how it is one of the most fundamental and enduring patterns in life’s rhythms. These patterns are mostly influenced by interactions between biology and environment. However, human culture also plays a very distinct role […]
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UCF Virtually Educates with TeachLivE
This research is published in Physical Review Physics Education Research. –Michael Schirber Just as pilots train in flight simulators, physics teachers can hone their skills in classroom simulators. Of course, explaining Newton’s laws to teenagers is a little less challenging than landing a 747. Still, a new study shows that undergraduate teaching assistants can gain […]
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New UCF Greenhouse Takes Root
Story by Jonathan Gabriel, UCF Today The UCF Arboretum celebrated the completion of a new campus greenhouse that will support UCF’s educational and research efforts. UCF faculty, staff and students gathered at the new greenhouse for a ribbon cutting ceremony and reception on Friday, March 25. Dr. Michael Johnson, Dean of the UCF College of […]
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A Savage World for Frogs
UCF biologist Anna Savage, Ph.D., is obsessed with frogs and figuring out why they are dying at an unprecedented rate around the world. Her latest research, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggests that natural selection as well as other evolutionary forces have shaped the evolution of immune genes in […]
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Caring for the Caregivers
Dementia is the most common reason that older adults need support for basic day-to-day tasks. Parkinson’s disease and strokes can also cause a loss of independence. Currently, there is no cure for many of these diseases, but there are many ways to express love and support for aging family members. The UCF Orlando Later-Life Development (OLDeR) Lab in […]
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Bill Nye Encourages Students to Help ‘Change the World’
March 16, 2016 – By Daniela Marin With the same bow tie, sense of humor and knack for explaining things, Bill Nye the Science Guy broke down a new topic at the University of Central Florida on March 15 – changing the world. On the same day as the Florida presidential primaries, a crowd […]
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UCF Used Green Thumb this St. Patrick’s Day
This St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2016, UCF volunteers gathered to celebrate UCF’s trees in recognition of Arbor Day. UCF Landscape and Natural Resources and the Arboretum hosted the Arbor Day event by leading volunteers through a planting and learning experience. National Arbor Day is always celebrated on the last Friday in April, but many states observe Arbor Day […]
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UCF Brings the Evidence
On March 11, Michael Sigman, Ph.D., Candice Bridge, Ph.D., and Erika Remley, M.S., presented at the Conference on the Modern Interpretation of Forensic Evidence at Florida A&M University, College of Law in downtown Orlando. The conference, a Continued Legal Education (CLE) training event, was aimed towards criminal law practitioners to help them understand advanced scientific practices that will […]
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Excellence in Student Teaching
Arielle Gaudiello, UCF Mathematics Graduate Teaching Assistant and doctoral candidate, has been chosen to receive the 2015-2016 university award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching by the UCF Graduate Council. This award recognizes Arielle’s teaching ability and her exceptional academic contribution. Arielle started graduate school in Fall 2013, where she worked in the Mathematics Assistance and Learning Lab (MALL) and in […]
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COS Women Making History
Since March of 1981, Americans everywhere have helped pay tribute to women whose commitment to humanity and to our planet have proved to be invaluable for society. Each year during March – Women’s History Month, the UCF Center for Success of Women Faculty honors and shares the stories of 31 outstanding UCF women that have been […]
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Forensic Science, Statistics and the Law
Join us for the final speaker in The National Center for Forensic Science (NCFS) Speaker Series on Science, Statistics and the Law. This speaker series brings together attorneys, forensic scientists and academics to discuss the future of forensic science in America. Simon A. Cole, Ph.D., will be speaking on the topic of, What Does It Mean for […]
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UCF NASA Experiment Takes Flight
Five experiments testing everything from how fire reacts in space, to the effectiveness of a lizard-inspired adhesive are headed to the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 22. NASA’s commercial partner Orbital ATK Inc. is scheduled to launch the Cygnus spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. […]
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Service Learning with Nanoscience
A new minor in the rapidly advancing field of nanoscience is now available for University of Central Florida undergraduates. Nanoscience is the study of materials on the nanometer scale. That’s exceedingly small – a sheet of paper is about 75,000 nanometers thick. At the nanoscale, materials can exhibit unusual properties that scientists have put to […]
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Anthropology Alumna Digs UCF
Dr. Amanda Groff, ’03, ’05, ’07, was honored as the 2016 Outstanding Anthropology AlumKnight at the 2016 UCF College of Sciences Outstanding AlumKnights awards reception. The second annual awards ceremony honored 10 of the college’s outstanding alumni and was held on March 3 in the UCF FAIRWINDS Alumni Center. Dr. Groff graduated from UCF with a […]
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The Last Man on the Moon
On Thursday, March 17th, please join us for a special preview screening of The Last Man on the Moon. The Last Man on the Moon is a film about Captain Eugene A. Cernan and how he holds the distinction of being the last man to leave his footprints on the moon. Forty years later, Captain Cernan is now […]
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Chicago Alumni Welcome UCF Students to the Windy City
The UCF Chicago Alumni Chapter welcomed a group of UCF students to the Windy City during a networking event on Tuesday, March 8, 2016. UCF’s Nicholson School of Communication instructors, Joan McCain, Lindsay Hudcok, and Gary LaPage traveled with a group of 24 students to Chicago for spring break to learn about careers in advertising […]
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Excellence in Online Education
UCF ranks at No. 15 in the nation for the Best Online Colleges for 2016, according to thebestschools.org. Online learning has increased tremendously over the last decade. It is estimated that over 7 million higher education students are e-learners. E-learners make up about one third of the overall higher education student body population in the U.S. UCF’s College […]
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College of Sciences Recognizes its Newest Group of Outstanding AlumKnights
On March 3, the UCF College of Sciences and its alumni chapter hosted their second annual Outstanding AlumKnights awards ceremony. The college’s dean, Michael Johnson, hosted this year’s festivities, which took place in the Grand Ballroom of the UCF FAIRWINDS Alumni Center, where guests enjoyed music, cocktails, heavy hors d’oeuvres and a photo booth, in addition to […]
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Artifact: Under Wraps
Egyptian mummies reveal secrets from the past to inspire future scientists. By Eric Michael, ’96 When students in the Mummies, Life After Death course are invited to touch and smell samples of preserved human skin, bone, hair and other remains dating back more than 2,000 years, anthropology lecturer Lana Williams, Ph.D., ’99, says the most common […]
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Big Data in Psychology: Tweets, Work and Stress
Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Wei Wang, Ph.D., was the lead big data researcher on a recently published paper entitled “Twitter Analysis: Studying U.S. Weekly Trends in Work Stress and Emotion.” According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention and previous research, in the United States, more than 70% of workers report that their jobs are stressful, […]
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UCF Alumnus Klinks Drinks to Doorsteps
Craig Bolz, ’14, clearly remembers the moment his company, Klink, closed its first deal. After months of hard work and financial investment into building his company, the day they partnered with a liquor store on deliveries was an unforgettable day. Bolz is founding partner and chief operating officer of Klink, the mobile app and website […]
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Success at Sociology Career Day
On Wednesday, March 2, the Sociology Department, along with the College of Sciences and Career Services, hosted the third annual Sociology Career Day. The Key West Ballroom in the UCF Student Union was filled with the buzz of sociology students, eager to network with representatives from local and national organizations. Nearly 200 students and alumni visited this year’s […]
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Bill Nye Comes to UCF
Get your bow ties ready because Bill Nye is coming to UCF! Students, faculty and staff are invited to spend “An Afternoon with Bill Nye,” popularly known as “The Science Guy,” on March 15, 2016. Nye won America’s heart as the star of the live-action educational comedy that aired on PBS from 1993-1998. He famously […]
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COS Student Captures Coveted Internship
Alex Alvarado is learning in a very different classroom this semester: the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. The UCF junior, who is pursuing a B.S. degree in Legal Studies, with a minor in Intelligence and National Security, is working in the office of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who represents Florida’s 27th Congressional District. The new Intelligence and National Security […]