Biomedical Sciences, DirectConnect Students Find Success Before Graduation Inspired by personal experiences and dreams of becoming doctors, these Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences students have thrived in academics and research at UCF.
Can AI Provide a Better Way to Relieve Pain for Hundreds of Millions of People? A clinical researcher in athletic training and a biomedical engineer are exploring new methods for using AI to analyze ultrasounds and improve lives around the world.
Graduate Students Share New Discoveries to Treat Disease “It is a great feeling when you know that you’ve provided knowledge that can help bring us one step closer to treating a disease,” UCF Ph.D. Candidate Nasser Yousef says.
Improving Patient Care Through Better Communication As part of the UCF College of Medicine’s commitment to improve healthcare for all, the college is launching a first-of-its-kind program to prepare medical students to better communicate health information with patients whose primary language is Spanish.
UCF Honors Faculty with 2025 Founders’ Day Awards More than 240 faculty, including Pegasus Professors and Reach for the Stars honorees, were recognized for their commitment to excellence during the annual Founders’ Day celebration.
How UCF Researchers Are Playing Key Role in Discovering Health Impacts of Space Travel College of Medicine Professor Michal Masternak and two graduate students are processing health samples last Saturday from Fram2, the latest commercial spaceflight and the first crewed flight to orbit Earth over its polar regions.
UCF Expert on Fram2 Mission Bringing Historic Opportunities for Space Medicine Discoveries As space travel advances, missions such as Fram2 provide space medicine experts like Emmanuel Urquieta of the College of Medicine with opportunities to study its effects on human health.
Research in 60 Seconds: Enhancing Electronic Medical Implants Biomedical sciences student Nicholas Rose’s research focuses on identifying plant-based polymers with energy-converting capabilities, which could be groundbreaking for medical devices.
Healthier Through Technology The Salow family has made a $1 million gift to foster medical technology that will improve physician education, research and patient care.
2025 Order of Pegasus, Student Awards Celebrates UCF’s Best and Brightest During the April 2 Founders’ Day event, 37 students will receive UCF’s highest student honor, which recognizes those who exemplify excellence in academic achievement, leadership and service.
Orlando Women of the Year 2025 Honorees – LaTonya R. Stark, Wednesday Hugus, Dana Nichols and Tiffany Hughes Orlando Magazine
