UCF in the News

UCF’s John C. Hitt Library is now home to a massive, automated book retrieval system. UCF is the only university in Florida and one of only a handful of universities in the nation to construct a stand-alone book retrieval center of this size and magnitude.

At UCF, instructional design staff are helping professors and students bring creativity and innovation into their coursework.

UCF is examining wastewater from university residence halls to help prevent coronavirus outbreaks on campus.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced two appointments to the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees last week. They are Daytona Beach's Bill Christy, the chief executive officer of Cognitive Kinetics and Challenge North America, as well as Windermere's Jeff Condello, chief executive officer of Randall Construction.

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.