UCF Chemists Work on Cure for Cancer

Kevin Belfield and his team of chemists were featured on Fox 35 for their work on a new potential cure for cancer.This new therapy uses organic salt and light to kill cancer cells, potentially treating four types of cancer: melanoma, breast, colon, and prostate cancer. The technique is a simple way around a problem that […]

The Lou Frey Institute: Past, Present and Future

The Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at UCF has a goal to promote the development of enlightened, responsible and actively engaged citizens. Over the past ten years the Institute has been doing an outstanding job adhering to that mission statement through a variety of programs, research and advocacy. The Institute grew out of […]

Hot careers: Sport psychology

This story is reposted from the American Psychological Association. Charlie Brown, PhD, was looking for a new dimension in his psychology career — a way to merge his professional skills in strategic problem-solving with his personal interests in athletics and travel. A recreational triathlete and avid skier, Brown found the perfect fit in sport psychology. […]

UCF Alumna Took the Bull by the Horns

Elizabeth Bertrand, ’09, came to UCF exploring several different majors but eventually found the perfect combination and graduated with two bachelor’s degrees — one in advertising-public relations and one in political science. She wasted no time taking the bull by the horns once she figured out her educational path at UCF, and started paving the […]

Alumna’s First Novel Gets Nominated for Award

Lindsay Moynihan, ’13, has always had a passion for storytelling and recently published her first novel called, The Waiting Tree.  The book is described to be in the young adult, contemporary and LGBT genres. It has been nominated for the coveted American Library Association’s 2014 Rainbow List. Moynihan currently lives in Orlando, Florida where she […]

Alumnus Named Assistant Director for the Orlando DDB/CRA

David Barilla, 06, has had a hand in the development of Orlando since he began his career with the City of Orlando Downtown Development Board and Community Redevelopment Agency (DDB/CRA) in 2010. He worked for two years as the economic development coordinator III and worked on key projects such as the $165 million 55 West […]

Dr. Reed Noss Has a Talk With Congress

Dr. Reed Noss, the Provost’s Distinguished Research Professor of Biology at UCF, recently had the opportunity to testify before Congress for the oversight hearing on “Defining Species Conservation Success: Tribal, State and Local Stewardship vs. Federal Courtroom Battles and Sue-and-Settle Practices.” The hearing was the first of a series in this Congress that are meant […]

Meet Fernando Rivera: Baseball, Family Keep Sociologist Focused on Studying Diverse Communities

This story is reposted from UCF Today. Fernando Rivera is an associate professor in sociology. His specialty is mental health, race and ethnicity, the family unit and disaster research. He has a particular interest in Latino communities and in the intersection between race, class and gender. Rivera fell in love with sociology because it’s the […]

National Science Foundation Taps UCF Biology Talent

This is a guest post from Zenaida Kotala, UCF Today. University of Central Florida biologist Betsy Von Holle is lending her talents to the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., serving a year as program director. Her leave of absence started this summer. The area she oversees includes studies and grants in the area of: […]

UCF Alumna’s Travels Enhance Her Educational Experience

Karina Konz, ’12, is originally from Germany and began her college career at Temple University in Tokyo, Japan. In 2011, she transferred to UCF as an international student and graduated in December 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in philosophy. Having traveled to and lived in several different places, Konz […]

APA leaders join the dialogue at the White House National Conference on Mental Health

This is an excerpt from the American Psychological Association, read the entire piece here. APA President Donald Bersoff, PhD, JD, and CEO Norman B. Anderson, PhD, called for the inclusion of mental health care in primary care at the White House National Conference on Mental Health on June 3. Mental health professionals’ vital importance to […]

Eldora State House Shoreline Restoration Event

Dr. Linda Walters and her research lab, called the Coastal and Estuary Ecology Lab (CEELAB), will be hosting a community shoreline restoration event on June 15, 2013 in Canaveral National SeaShore to prevent further erosion and potential damage to the Eldora State House. The house was built in the late 1800s when most transport was […]

Alumna’s UCF Experiences Help Her Land Job in New York

One look at Sabrina Stein’s, ’10, resume and you would be impressed with her list of accomplishments. From juggling part-time jobs to holding many leadership positions within student organizations to multiple presentations at conferences, Stein is a great example of a how student pursuing experience in their field while in college can lead to a […]

COS Professor Discovers Earliest Case of Child Abuse

Dr. Sandra Wheeler, UCF professor and bioarchaelologist, led a group of researchers to the discovery of the first recorded case of child abuse in history. Using a bioarchaeological approach integrating biological, socio-cultural, and physical environments they analyzed a child from Kellis 2, a Roman Period (c. 50-450 AD) cemetery located in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. The […]

Computer Simulations Help Scientists Understand HIV-1 Infection

This story is reposted from UCF Today.  Scientists have long been unable to fully explain how infections attack the body, but now a team of researchers, including one from the University of Central Florida, has taken a step closer to understanding how the process works in HIV-1. The results mean that one day that knowledge […]

UCF Alumna Wins Spring 2013 I.F. Stone Award

The I.F. Stone Award was launched in October 2011 to support the work of emerging investigative reporters, including journalism graduate students, recent graduates, journalism interns, and entry-level reporters. Twice a year, in the fall and spring, The Investigative Fund accepts investigative proposals from young and emerging reporters, or reporting teams, and selects one or two […]

Author, Educator and 2013 UCF Pegasus Professor

Dr. James D. Wright is an author, educator, Provost’s Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and now a UCF Pegasus Professor. He is one of the three faculty selected from the College of Sciences who were honored with the award, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to the UCF community in the areas of research, […]

Dr. Campins Selected as 2013 Pegasus Professor

Dr. Humberto Campins’ impressive list of accomplishments ranges from discovering water ice and organic molecules on asteroids to being a part of NASA and European Space Agency teams, but he can now add UCF Pegasus Professor to that list. Campins was among seven faculty members who were honored this year with the prestigious Pegasus Professor […]

COS PhD Student Wins First Place

Have you ever wondered how or what enabled planets to form? Tracy Becker, a PhD student in the Physics Department, is working hard to find out the answer. She has always known that she wanted to study astronomy, but she is especially interested in the solar system. Becker’s current research is focused on Saturn’s rings. Recently, Becker […]

COS Professors Receive UCF’s Most Prestigious Award

To be recognized as a Pegasus Professor is the most prestigious award a faculty member can receive at UCF, and this year the College of Sciences was privileged to have three of its professors honored with this accolade. Deborah Beidel, Humberto Campins and James D. Wright were chosen from the College of Sciences for their […]

Alumnus Reflects on the Opportunities UCF Provided

UCF alumnus, Gilbert Zhang, ’10, graduated from UCF with a master’s degree in political science. When he reflects on his time at UCF, Zhang says, “UCF stands for opportunity, the motto that I have remembered since my first day at UCF, and it truly does. My time as a UCF student was a great experience […]

Scientists Capture First Direct Proof of Hofstadter Butterfly Effect

This is a guest post from Zenaida Kotala, UCF Today. A team of researchers from several universities – including UCF –has observed a rare quantum physics effect that produces a repeating butterfly-shaped energy spectrum in a magnetic field, confirming the longstanding prediction of the quantum fractal energy structure called Hofstadter’s butterfly. This discovery by the […]

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Special Issue of JPSE: Simulations in Political Science

A new issue of the Journal of Political Science Education edited by three Political Science faculty at UCF – Kerstin Hamann, Hutch Pollock and Bruce Wilson – is now in print.  Volume 9, Number 2 is a special issue with nine peer-reviewed articles focusing on various aspects of the use of simulations in political science […]

Honor, Courage and Commitment

Congratulations to alumnus, Jeffrey N. Aybar, ’12, for recently completing U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Aybar completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis […]

The Tallahassee-Leon Shelter Study Update

UCF Sociology professors Drs. Amy Donley and James Wright recently lent their expertise to the Tallahassee-Leon Shelter. The shelter was in the midst of some controversies when the United Way of the Big Bend President, Heather Mitchell, and the shelter’s board leadership called in the experts to help get the shelter back to working at […]

Cyber Shrink

This an excerpt from a story in Endeavors , read the entire piece here. Michael Bachmann is tall. Even in Texas, where large seems to be the natural order of things, the native German takes up a lot of headroom. Asked to guess his occupation, you might hazard something physically demanding, like ranger or sheriff, and […]

New Director of NCFS Announced

The college congratulates Dr. Michael Sigman on his new position as the Director of the National Center for Forensic Science. Dr. Sigman earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Florida State University in 1986 and was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois and University of Chicago.  He held research positions at […]

NASA Awards $1.8 Million to Psychology Professor

Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair, Eduardo Salas, was selected for two of the 23 awards that NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute announced for its crew health program. Proposals were openly solicited from academia, industry and government laboratories and were judged for scientific merit by non-NASA technical experts. The issue being addressed is astronaut health and performance risks for future […]

UCF Professors Write Guest Column Piece for the Orlando Sentinel

Drs. Ty Matejowsky and Beatriz Reyes-Foster, professors in the Department of Anthropology at UCF, recently wrote a guest column piece for the Orlando Sentinel called, “Anthropologists should do a better job of promoting their field.”  The featured article addresses the negative attention that cultural anthropology tends to receive in the news lately. They describe cultural anthropology as […]