IGNITE the Future of UCF
Faculty and students make a university great. Research and education — in turn — help make our society a better place for everyone. But what is the spark that ignites it all?
For UCF, it started when 89 donors came forward with a $1 million donation to secure the land that is now home to one of our nation’s largest universities. Philanthropy is the spark that created UCF, and now we have embarked on an unprecedented campaign to raise $500 million.
UCF is challenging long-held assumptions about the role and scope of public higher education. We believe success can only happen when we expand opportunity and demand excellence. And with philanthropic support, we are poised to emerge as a new category of university, uniquely suited to meet the challenges and pursue the opportunities of our rapidly-changing world.
“I like to tell other alumni that UCF is your school forever. We all need to keep taking care of our school because I know that no matter where I am, I still belong to UCF.”
Pegasus Magazine
Pegasus, the official magazine of the University of Central Florida, is published three times a year and mailed to more than 230,000 alumni, students, faculty and members of our community.
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Spring 2017 Featured Story Monsters in the ClosetUCF’s Bug Closet holds more than half a million specimens and countless tales of stranger-than-fiction beetles, butterflies and wasps that help weave our wondrous environmental web.Read More
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Fall 2016 Featured Story Helpers and HealersNot surprisingly, of the thousands of people who responded after Pulse, many have a UCF connection. Here, in their words, are their stories.Read More -
Summer 2016 Featured Story Where to Next?With research expanding throughout our solar system and beyond, the human race is on the cusp of a new Space Age. We turned to UCF scientists to reveal what space exploration will look like in the future.Read More -
Spring 2016 Featured Story Finding BalanceUCF researchers are working to make Florida as habitable for the people who live and work here as the plants and wildlife that depend on it for survival.Read More -
Fall 2015 Featured Story Ripple EffectFor first-generation college students, earning a degree can transform their future in remarkable ways along with everyone in their family for generations to come.Read More