7 Florida Schools Receive Funding to Develop Community Partnership Schools Florida is now home to 36 Community Partnership Schools serving over 33,000 students and their communities.
Remembering Walter Gaudnek, Influential Artist and Longtime UCF Professor A professor in the School of Visual Arts and Design for 50 years before his retirement in 2020, Walter Gaudnek is celebrated for his contributions to UCF and the international art world.
UCF Computer Vision Team Receives Prestigious Computer Vision Award for Action Recognition Dataset The researchers behind UCF-101, a challenging action recognition dataset, are being awarded for their impressive collection of 13,320 clips across 101 action categories. The dataset has been cited over 4,000 times since its creation.
Student Takes on History Podcasting, Bringing the Past to New Audiences History undergraduate Sebastian Garcia is taking up both Knights HistoryCast and the Florida Historical Quarterly podcast, interviewing historians at the university and beyond. But he couldn’t have done it without his mentor, Holly Baker ’14’18MA.
UCF Researcher Receives NASA Award to Develop Revolutionary Rocket Engine Technology The project focuses on rotating detonation rocket engines, which use high-energy explosions to produce more energy with less fuel, improving engine efficiency and cutting down space travel costs and emissions.
UCF Researchers Create Lunar Regolith Bricks That Could Be Used to Construct Artemis Base Camp Using resources found in space to construct off-world structures can drastically reduce the need to transport building materials for programs like Artemis.
UCF, Universal Creative Launch ‘Creative Lab’ to Bring Immersive Design Learning to Students The lab offers unique blend of classroom and on-site learning from some of the most creative minds in the industry and builds on long-term relationship between the two organizations.
The Way We Remember Researchers at UCF’s School of Modeling, Simulation and Training are merging history and computer science to bring the past back to life.
New NASA-funded Study Hopes to Put Risks of Space Junk on People’s Radar Space debris can endanger spacecraft and damage satellites that are critical to everything from communication to GPS, air traffic control, surveillance and national security.
