UCF in the News

SaShauna McKain, a speech pathology major at UCF, developed a community fridge project in response to mass food insecurity and poverty in the Orlando area.

To help improve couple relationships during the pandemic, two UCF professors have developed interactive workshop sessions to teach better ways to communicate and manage conflict.

UCF's student political organizations have been forced by COVID-19 to adopt virtual tactics as they try to keep young voters engaged ahead of Election Day.

Fernando Rivera, a UCF sociology professor and the founding director of the University’s Puerto Rico Research Hub, has been tracking the movement of Puerto Rican citizens to Central Florida for more than 10 years.

Humberto Campins, a UCF planetary scientist, is a member of the OSIRIS-REx science team. The team has been studying the 500-meter-wide asteroid Bennu, which could pose a threat to Earth in about 160 years.

UCF is one of the top 500 universities in the world, according to U.S. News & World Report. The international ranking – comprised of more than 1,500 schools from 86 countries – focused on school's global and regional research reputation as well as academic research performance.

Members of UCF's Contact Tracing Team discuss the University's program and how students are working to stop the recent case increase.

UCF researchers teamed with the U.S. Army and other research institutions to develop a 3D-printed device carried on drones that can detect potentially lethal aerosols. The device will help soldiers identify threats, such as biological warfare agents.

Despite the widespread economic and social turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Central Florida’s new cancer center is on schedule to open at Lake Nona in March 2021.