UCF in the News

UCF has added many new safety measures around campus to help curb the spread of COVID-19 when students return.

Tom Cavanagh, the vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida, oversaw the university's transition to online learning as the pandemic shut down all on-campus instruction in the middle of March. That included creating streamlined workshops and training in less than a week for thousands of instructors so they could teach their classes in a socially distanced manner.

The nationwide competition was set to happen in Las Vegas this year but due to the pandemic, it was played from the students' own living rooms. Despite being thousands of miles apart, UCF's E-Sports Club were crowned the reigning champions of June’s Collegiate Star League’s 2019-20 Counter Strike Global Offensive Season competition, winning $20,000 for landing first place among 160 other teams nationwide.

UCF will soon begin enlisting students to volunteer to work as contact tracers. That strategy is a key part of the university’s plan to reopen some in-person classes in the fall, which won approval from state officials last week.

Nash Turley with UCF’s College of Sciences launched a nationwide program with his app “Lawns to Wildflowers,” which shows people how to replace their lawns with native wildflowers.

UCF has added new features to its existing campus app to help with symptom screening on campus and assist contact tracers.

UCF faculty members weigh in on the unprecedented events of the last 100-plus days, and when we may be able to make meaning of it all.

All UCF students, faculty and staff members can pick up a free, reusable face covering with a valid UCF ID at one of a few distribution sites on the main campus. Distribution sites are soon coming to the UCF Downtown, Rosen and Lake Nona campuses.

Extra hand-sanitizer stations, face masks, plexiglass shields and more protective measures are being added to UCF's campus to help keep students, faculty and staff healthy.