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Spring 2025

On Campus: Spring 2025

From designing video games to engineering boats for racing, UCF’s campus was full of activity for Spring 2025.

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Call Security

When the world’s biggest companies need cybersecurity talent, they look to UCF’s acclaimed Collegiate Cyber Defense Club.

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Leading the Charge

After more than three decades of an evolving career at UCF, Provost Michael D. Johnson steps down this summer with confidence that the university will continue its future-focused mission.

Why I Lived in Space*

NASA employee Tiffany Snyder ’18MS shares her experience as a volunteer during a 45-day *simulated space mission.

Why I…

Fueling the Future: Investing in UCF

Knight Nation rallied together to make a record-breaking impact while celebrating all things Black & Gold.

In Focus

The Cradle of Civilization

UCF researcher Tiffany Earley-Spadoni and her team are uncovering artifacts at an overlooked Mesopotamian site — offering new insights about how ancient humans lived and advanced civilization.

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A Powerful Partnership

Through key research from Pegasus Professor Jayanta Kapat and a Pegasus Partnership, UCF and Siemens Energy continue to advance energy innovation.

Pain’s Silent Signals

Driven by his nursing experience with newborns, Martin Schiavenato ’07PhD has spent decades developing a tool to measure pain for patients who can’t verbalize it.

To the Extreme

Driven by humanity’s endless quest for discovery, UCF researchers are examining how people perform in severe environments to push the frontiers of scientific study.

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An Unseen Issue

With support from the National Institute of Justice and the state of Florida, UCF is educating students and using AI to combat human trafficking.

Plugged In

Laura Stevens ’04 has the same questions and concerns about technology as everyone. As an editor for one of the world’s largest newspapers, she knows how and where to find the answers.

AlumKnights

Ready for the Front Lines

This UCF alum is advancing the frontiers of modeling, simulation and engineering to redefine military medical training.

Launchpad

Events

Mon 22 Sep

Academic

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Session

For faculty or staff: COIL, or Collaborative Online International Learning, is an innovative teaching approach that connects students and faculty from institutions in different countries to engage in joint academic projects. These collaborations are designed and facilitated by two faculty…

Mon 22 Sep

Academic

Math Mastery: Strategies for Solving with Confidence

Do math problems leave you feeling stuck or second-guessing yourself? Math Mastery: Strategies for Solving with Confidence is a hands-on workshop designed to help you build the skills — and the mindset — you need to tackle math with clarity…

Mon 22 Sep

Tour/Open House/Information Session

UCF Online Healthcare Informatics Professional Science MS Information Session

Join us for an information session for the UCF Online healthcare informatics professional science M.S. program.

Why I Lived in Space*

Why I…

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