UCF in the News

UCF is named as one of the universities whose students designed and assembled small satellites that were launched into orbit on Sunday aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne Rocket. UCF’s satellite studies how small particles collide in space.

Lindsay Neuberger, a UCF health communications professor, was part of a new study, assessing public perceptions towards the vaccines.

Unveiled in fall 2020, a colorful art-glass wall is part of the UCF Downtown campus. The project was produced by a partnership of UCF and Valencia leaders and Parramore residents and business owners.

UCF has begun administering its initial 1,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare workers and to faculty, staff and students age 65 or older.

UCF administrators recently estimated that open educational resources saved their students more than three-quarters of a million dollars over the fall semester.

UCF grad Sashauna McKain established a community fridge to help local citizens enduring food insecurity. Located at the East End Market in Audubon Park, the fridge is filled with fresh food from some of Central Florida's top food entrepreneurs.

As UCF students begin the Spring 2021 semester, the University has implemented new COVID-19 safety policies and measures to keep members of the university community safe.

UCF has been approved as a vaccination site for faculty, staff and students. The University has created a mass vaccination plan that will serve about 4,000 people per day when doses become available.

As a precaution against COVID-19 spread, 7,000 UCF students, who are living within on-campus housing, will be rapid tested for the coronavirus during a five-day period and must receive negative results before they can check into their dormitories.