UCF in the News

With coronavirus cases rising in Central Florida ahead of the start of the new school year, kids might experience more than first day nerves as they return to class. WMFE spoke with UCF psychology assistant professor Dalena Taylor about how to talk to kids about mental health and what routines to start now ahead of August 10th.

Since demonstrations across the entire country of Cuba began July 11, Carolina Esquivel - co-founder of the Cuban-American Association at the University of Central Florida - started to rally in Orlando to show support for them.

A total of seven Knights will represent the university and their country during the 2021 games in Tokyo, Japan.

Mote scientists are working with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the University of Central Florida to explore the use of clay to kill red tide.

For the past month, our most beloved eye on the universe has been closed, blinded by a computer glitch that NASA experts are still working to solve. UCF professor Theodora Karalidi was scheduled for observations to begin just days after Hubble experienced its glitch.

Future residents of Orlando’s newest continuing care retirement community, Legacy Pointeat UCF, gathered today for an exciting visit to their soon-to-be homes with a parade-style event to celebrate “topping off” the community’s final building.

Luis Martinez-Fernandez, a history professor at the University of Central Florida who specializes on Cuba, said it’s been about 30 years since protests erupted on the island — and even those were not to the scale of Sunday's protest.

UCF Restores, a nonprofit organization that helps people with trauma-related concerns, recently traveled down to Miami to offer their support to first responders at the site of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse.

At UCF, Reddick was an administrator who founded a program to bring educational opportunities to veterans. Reddick was the first Black man hired to teach at Winter Park High School. He was the first Black administrator at Rollins College. He was the first Black man from Orlando elected to the state legislature since the Reconstruction Era.