Ketty Dones ’23, who is graduating with dual master’s degrees in public administration and nonprofit management, works with the Applied AI Innovation Initiative at UCF to provide local nonprofit organizations with technical assistance for AI-integrated solutions that help drive their missions.

This achievement affirms UCF’s leadership in higher education innovation, strong student outcomes and responsible stewardship of public resources.

Supported through a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-funded grant, Project Harmony is building a tailored, free curriculum to address relationship stressors unique to couples in the first responder and parenting communities.

The 2025 ShanghaiRanking report recognizes UCF’s transportation science and technology program as the best nationally for the first time and Rosen College as America’s premier hospitality and tourism program for the sixth year in a row.

Barbara “Basia” Andraka-Christou and her team will study a decade’s worth of state laws, insurance claims data and more to understand how state law requirements for emergency departments affect overdose patients.

Beidel is a Pegasus Professor internationally known for her ground-breaking research and effective treatments for veterans, first responders and emergency workers with PTSD.

As the third UCF alum to earn the Orlando poet laureate honor, Camara Gaither ’23MSW sees poetry as a practice that enhances social work and service to others.

UCF Physics Professor Lauren McKeown and colleagues are studying a spider-like formation on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to understand how it formed and what it reveals about subsurface brine pools and potential habitability.

Professor Debashis Chanda’s low-cost, smartphone-based biosensor could bring rapid, reliable disease detection to areas with limited access to traditional diagnostics.