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Miss America to Speak on Celebrating Diversity Through Cultural Competency at UCF
Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014, will visit UCF on Tuesday, March 25, to be the keynote speaker for a Month of the Women celebration sponsored by the campus Multicultural Student Center. Davuluri, the first contestant of Indian descent to win the Miss America competition, will speak on her platform: Celebrating Diversity through Cultural Competency. She […]
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UCF Wins Big at SEEConference
March 14 to 16, 2014 students from the University of Central Florida’s Biology Department presented their research projects on ecology and evolution during the Southeastern Ecology and Evolution Conference (SEEC), hosted by the Biology Department of Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga. UCF students returned from the conference with their heads held high, having won […]
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Fifth Graders Become College Students for a Day with ACE
About 650 fifth graders from Orange County schools will see firsthand the opportunities that college can provide for them when they visit the University of Central Florida Monday, March 17. The college of sciences will play a big part in this rewarding College Education Day. Achieve a College Education Day, or ACE Day, is intended to inspire children by […]
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Mathematician to Reveal New Discoveries From Lost Notebook
In 1976, at the University of Wisconsin, George Andrews made a monumental discovery. Hidden in heaps of dusty books, he found Ramanujan’s lost notebook full of mock theta functions. It had been established through correspondence with a friend, prior to Ramanujan’s death, that he was investigating mock theta functions. Only a few had been sent […]