UCF in the News

Bill Cooper, a UCF American Sign Language professor who is hearing impaired, says he has come up with innovative teaching strategies that allows him and his students to seamlessly communicate in a virtual setting.

Trey Gordon, an alumnus who graduated in 1996, recalls co-creating the first renderings of the Knight’s mascot design. Gordon has enjoyed watching the design and students’ affections for Knightro evolve over the last quarter century.

Tanvir Khan, an air quality engineer and researcher at the Florida Solar Energy Center, which is part of the University of Central Florida, says there is no scientific evidence suggesting that essential oils improve air quality.

President Cartwright talks with Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi about his first few months on the job, his philosophy on college athletics, UCF’s rising enrollment even during the pandemic and his formative years growing up in the Bahamas.

The UCF-based firm, which creates prosthetic limbs using 3-D printers, will move to a new facility, more than doubling its lab space. The additional space will help the firm as it expands its operations to serve adults as well children.

UCF is now looking to track the spread with student coronavirus contact tracers. In all, 700 students applied to be a student contact tracer, and six were chosen.

UCF is one of three Florida universities with the highest number of Hispanic and Latino students. In 2017, UCF’s Latino and Hispanic student body exceeded 25-percent, a rising number that granted them the Hispanic Serving Institution designation from the U.S. Department of Education.

UCF researchers hope a recent study will be essential to public health officials and policy makers battling COVID-19. The data includes behavior, public perception and where the messaging should be focused during the pandemic.

The Chabad at the University of Central Florida helped the campus' approximately 7,000 Jewish students take part in the holiday, even from a distance.