UCF in the News

UCF's patents last year covered everything from new technology developed to enhance science-education delivery, to newly developed synthetic materials aimed at protecting citrus from disease and keeping wood, ceramics and fibers protected against bacteria and fungus.

UCF biologists are studying dung beetles in an attempt to restore the species and help protect Florida livestock.

The new campus will be an economic and social driver as well as a place where ideas, talent and capital will intersect to create innovation says interim President Thad Seymour.

Take a look at the progress of UCF's growing Academic Health Sciences Campus in Lake Nona.

UCF interim President Thad Seymour Jr. and Valencia West Campus President Falecia Williams discuss how the new downtown educational ecosystem is coming to life.

Deborah Beidel, director of UCF RESTORES—a clinic that helps trauma victims—says first responders called to mass shootings face trauma similar to those in combat.

UCF's annual festival for developing plays and emerging playwrights will this year feature three productions, including the Hurricane Maria-inspired musical "El Whiz," which features young Dorothy after the storm expels her from her Puerto Rican home.

The print-making studio arm of UCF's School of Visual Arts and Design is one of the few working art presses in existence, and its new location downtown will help draw more students and artists together on creative collaborations.

Researchers in UCF's Propulsion and Energy Research Laboratory are working on making hypersonic travel a reality.