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BNY and UCF Announce $5M Pegasus Partnership and Co-Location, Forging a New Model for Industry-Academia Collaboration

The milestone partnership will give UCF students real-world experience with one of the world’s most respected financial institutions, while leveraging the university’s faculty excellence, research power, and startup-like agility to anticipate market and technology disruptions.

November 4, 2025

UCF Honors 8 Shining Stars with Inaugural SpaceU Awards

The awards debuted during UCF Space Week to recognize talent and contributions that are fueling the future of space.

Behind UCF Space Game 2025’s Theme: Hypersonic HADES Wind Tunnel

This year’s annual event takes inspiration from the UCF HyperSpace Center’s large-scale hypersonic wind tunnel, which launches later this month to advance hypersonic travel and space propulsion research worldwide.

1 Minute with 6 UCF Alums Who the NSF Believes Exemplify Advancing Research

From computer vision to mathematics, these alums are emerging leaders in significant research fields.

UCF Applauds 7 Top Faculty at 2025 Luminary Awards

The honor recognizes some of UCF’s brightest stars who reflect the best of the university’s research and impact efforts.

UCF Helps Shape the Future of Space Hospitality and Tourism

Through participation in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, new curriculum and industry connections, UCF students are developing solutions to challenges with living in space.

UCF First-Generation Student Is Finding Her Place in Space

Charting her own course through aerospace engineering and physics, first-generation student Kaaliyah McGaughy is proving that curiosity and determination can launch anyone toward their dreams.

This UCF Engineering Alum’s Name Is Written in Outer Space

Cassie Todd ’14 has her signature all over some of the most advanced satellite technology that’s making a positive impact on our world from far, far away.

Why Do We Celebrate UCF Space Week? Because Discovery Starts Here

Space has always inspired what Knights do. The same unstoppable spirit that launched UCF still drives us — to challenge, lead and dare to explore the unknown.

UCF Awarded $2 Million Grant to Support Second-Degree Students, Helps to Alleviate Nursing Shortage

The gift will provide hundreds of UCF second degree bachelor’s in nursing students with much-needed scholarships and wrap-around services to support their success.

Research in 60 Seconds: Exploring Lunar Landscapes

Associate Professor of Physics Kerri Donaldson Hanna’s research will use imaging technology to investigate how mysterious volcanic features formed on the celestial body.

Meet UCF’s 2025 Astronaut Scholars

These three honorees have personal motivations driving them to use research to take us into a new frontier.

UCF Space Medicine Initiatives Are Taking Off

With UCF Space Week taking place Nov. 3-7, America’s Space University is expanding its research, clinical, and education efforts to keeping the galaxy’s travelers healthy and bringing those medical technologies back to patients on Earth.

Pegasus Magazine

UCF in the News

UCF Students Experiment with Cooking Space Food

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Florida’s 94th Rocket Launch Shatters Previous Record

Rolling Out

BNY Launches Lab at UCF to Train Next Gen of ‘Job-Ready Candidates’

FOX Business

It’s Nearly Time to Say Goodbye to the International Space Station. What Happens Next?

Scientific American

Events at UCF

Nov 10

Writing an Abstract for Conferences 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Nov 10

Mic Knight Mondays at Knightcade 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nov 10

Riffmas 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Nov 10

SMART Recovery 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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