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Alumna Betters Her Community Through Inspiring Others To Become Leaders
As program manager for the National AmeriCorps program, Public Allies, for Central Florida, under Community Based Care of Central Florida, Nilmarie Zapata, ’07 and ’09, wears a variety of different hats. Zapata serves as the AmeriCorps volunteer’s coach, mentor, leadership facilitator, curriculum designer and trainer. She also makes time to act as a founding curator […]
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Red Moon Rising for Knights Under the Stars Event
UCF wants to give you a front row seat to the first lunar eclipse visible from Florida in more than three years. From 2:30 to 5 a.m. on Tuesday, April 15, volunteers from the UCF Robinson Observatory will share several telescopes with the public on Memory Mall as part of its “Knights Under the Stars” […]
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Saving the World One “Mound” At A Time
This year’s UCF Book Festival holds true to its word in delivering a wide variety of literary insight, how-to’s, and how-can-you-help’s. With a schedule overflowing in book signings, workshops, and too many options to count on fingers and toes, it can become slightly overwhelming to decide which novelty venues are worthy of exploration. This same […]
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UCF Honors Fallen Knights With Memorial Service
Anyone entering the Student Union on April 9 may have wondered at the yellow roses and candles placed carefully on the roped off Pegasus emblem. The tokens are a tribute to the knights lost this past year. UCF will hold the annual Eternal Knights Memorial Service April 9 at 3 p.m. in the Pegasus Ballroom […]
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Faculty and Students Honored at Founders’ Day Convocation
Faculty members, staff and students who have made significant achievements and academic contributions at the University of Central Florida were recognized at the annual Founders’ Day Honors Convocation on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. From a biology professor who has been featured in two National Geographic Channel documentary films (William Crampton), to a Professor Emeritus who […]
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Yale professor, Sociologist Elijah Anderson to Speak at UCF
Sociologist to talk about role of race in current society Professor and American sociologist and ethnographer Elijah Anderson will be at UCF on April 9 speaking to students about his latest book “The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life.” Anderson will educate the audience and make attendees aware of this social phenomenon he […]
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Mathematical Conversation Starters: Talk Monday, April 7
Prof. John DePillis Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, author of 777 Mathematical Conversation Starters and Illustrated Special Relativity Through Its Paradoxes WHERE: Health and Public Affairs Building I, Room 112 WHEN: Monday, April 7, 2014, 3:40 – 4:40pm USING BASIC LINEAR ALGEBRA as a natural language of special relativity, and assuming very little […]
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Local Fourth Graders Challenged to SavEarth
The College of Sciences is always happy to see innovations coming from our most valuable resource, future students. A large group of fourth graders will be showcasing their months long research in areas of conservation, recycling and other ways to help save the earth Saturday April 5 in Engineering II in the atrium. We’re excited […]
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Sandwich Generation
Rebekah McCloud, director of UCF’s PRIME STEM /Student Support Services, penned an editorial for the Huffington Post’s UCF Forum. McCloud’s piece is part of a Huffington Post opinion series on the UCF forum written by UCF faculty and staff. In her writing, McCloud explores her experience in being a part of the “sandwich generation” or, […]
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Battling PTSD at the UCF RESTORES Clinic
Just reading labels on the rows of little jars seems like enough to trigger a traumatic memory: CORDITE, DIESEL FUEL, BURNING TRASH, BODY ODOR, GUNPOWDER, BURNT HAIR. And if it doesn’t, the carefully concocted scents inside — delivered to patients’ nostrils with precision fans while they “see” corresponding visuals inside high-tech headsets — almost certainly […]
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Arboretum, Knights Pantry Partnerhip Grows
The produce students receive at Knights Pantry might be fresher and more healthful than anything they could buy at local supermarkets. That’s because of efforts led by the Arboretum and members of the UCF chapter of Engineers Without Borders to establish organic gardens in the local community. Knights Pantry provides up to five items of […]
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2014 STEAM Exhibit: Putting Art in Science
People often view art and science as polar opposites, but fine arts students at UCF may be changing that perspective with their newest exhibition. The 2014 STEAM Exhibition will showcase students’ artwork they have created in response to presentations given by UCF scientists and students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The […]
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UCF Team Tests Satellite Design in Zero Gravity
For more than 10 years, scientists and engineers have been developing satellites the size of softballs that float in space and collect data, such as weather conditions. These picosatellites, which weigh less than 1 kilogram (about 2.2 pounds), are a lot less expensive than conventional large satellites and easier to launch into space as secondary […]
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Five With UCF Ties Join Military Simulation Pioneers in First Hall of Fame Class
The University of Central Florida is an anchor of Central Florida’s $3 billion modeling and simulation industry, so it’s no surprise that half of the inaugural inductees into a new industry hall of fame have black-and-gold connections. UCF President John C. Hitt, former U.S. Rep. Lou Frey, UCF alumni Albert Henry Marshall and Patricia Getchell, […]
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There’s a UCFApp for That.
Need to access various pieces of software for classes without installing them on your personal laptop? There’s an app for that. At least, there will be soon. A $928,564 project proposal was awarded to the College of Sciences and 4 other colleges and divisions to develop a virtual apps program for the entire student body. […]
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First Annual Sociology Career Day
The UCF Sociology Department hosted its first annual Career Day this week. The UCF chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, an international sociology honors society, planned and hosted the career day. The goal of this career day was to show students what job opportunities are available to them with a sociology major. There were also agencies attending that […]
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Career Achievement Award
Dr. Mark Neider will receive the Earl Alluisi Award for Early Career Achievement at this year’s American Psychological Association’s (APA) convention in Washington, DC. This award was presented by Division 21 of the APA. APA Division 21 represents the Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology areas of psychological research. The award recognizes outstanding achievements made by […]
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UCF Sociology Student Receives $1,000 FCHC Scholarship
Matthew Landon, UCF Sociology major, is the 2014 recipient of the Dr. Richard Piper Scholarship through the Florida Collegiate Honors Council (FCHC). The College of Sciences sends its congratulations to Landon on his achievement. According to the FCHC website, “the Dr. Richard Piper Scholarship is designed for university students who are graduating from a FCHC […]
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AIA presents: Sacred Spaces and Human Sacrifice
The ancient Nasca people of southern Peru inspired a long line of theories and myths to explain the mystery of the Nasca Lines. Peru’s Nasca lines are a number of ancient geoglyphs, or designs on the ground which are made up of stone or other natural materials. This archaeological find has left many in the […]
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Visit Orlando With an Alumnus
As vice president of global consumer marketing for Visit Orlando, Peter Cranis, ’84, is helping to make people’s dreams come true. And, as the next chair of the association’s board of directors, he’s hoping to make the dreams of the UCF Alumni Association come true too. For more than 20 years, Peter has remained connected […]
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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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“Harm Reduction”: Combining Drug Use Information Awareness and Personal Choice Prevention
Out of Harm’s Way: An Ethnography of Harm Reduction in Argentina Shana Harris, Ph.D. National Development and Research Institutes Wed., April 9, 2014: 3:00 – 4:00 PM In: Howard Phillips Hall, room 409-M, 4th floor Drug abuse continues as a focus of study and prevention, with new models of intervention in the works each day. […]
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Ross Hinkle: The Superman of Environmental Conservation
Economic development advances throughout the world at an alarming rate, putting formerly vast, open lands on the “endangered” list. Through the conservation efforts of UCF Conservation Biologist Ross Hinkle and the Selection and Management Committee, endangered land in Central Florida is receiving protection vital to its continued survival The Selection and Management Committee, along with […]
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NSC Journalism Student Wins National Scholarship
Kyle Warnke, ’13, has been named one of five recipients of the American Copy Editors Society scholarship. The society, which is the preeminent national body of professional editors working in journalism, each year awards scholarships to students who by their achievements represent the best and brightest of the future of copy editing. Kyle, a Dow Jones […]
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Tombs With a View
Tombs With a View: Using Vertical Archaeology to Explore Pre-Hispanic Cliff Tombs in Chachapoyas, Peru Presenting Dr. J. Marla Toyne Assistant Professor, Anthropology department, University of Central Florida, Orlando March 21, 2014 University of Florida, Rolfs Hall, Room 205 Event begins at 2:00 p.m. Sponsored by: FASA and the Department of Anthropology, University of Florida […]
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UCF’s Littlest Knights Dive Into Ocean Day
Future marine biologists sharpened their communication skills Wednesday while pre-schoolers learned about sea creatures during UCF’s annual Ocean Day activities. Twelve students in Linda Walters’ marine biology lab and marine biology class visited the Creative School on campus to teach children about sea creatures and those found in Florida waterways. Walters has been working with […]
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From Florida to Heibei: One Alumna is Bridging the Cultural Gap
Fedorah Philippeaux, ’13, couldn’t have imagined her bachelor’s degree in political science would take her half way across the world to teach English to students in China. Philippeaux began her UCF career aiming for a degree in molecular microbiology. Due to financial limits, Philippeaux later decided to change her major to political science, enabling her […]
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Learn What to Do in an Emergency: KnightSHARE Expo 2014
The College of Sciences, and UCF as a whole, is committed to educating students and faculty on how to handle any emergency situation, from an active shooter on campus to a student who needs CPR. We encourage all of our students to participate in the KNIGHTSHARE Expo, to become familiar with emergency personal and their […]
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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 […]
