UCF in the News

UCF's Go Baby Go! gives children with limited mobility a chance to move around and have fun with the use of ride-on cars. For their senior project, a group of engineering students partnered with the program to give a local child a new ride.

UCF Restores, a nonprofit trauma research center and treatment clinic at UCF, has developed a state-of-the-art VR treatment tool that can be customized to each patient's traumatic experience

Researchers at UCF are studying samples from loggerhead and green sea turtles in the Indian River Lagoon and working to understand why so many juvenile turtles are developing benign tumors.

Elena Cyrus, a UCF infectious disease epidemiologist, is quoted prominently within the article. She says some people can be flexible about being rebooked. However, that's harder for people who lack access to reliable transportation or who have jobs with strictly scheduled hours.

Amy Foster, a UCF professor and space historian, says more launches mean more astronauts on board. She says this is the realization of the evolutionary vision of the International Space Station.

UCF RESTORES Director Dr. Deborah Beidel says the service is free to any firefighter and is available both as a website and mobile app.

Research being done at UCF could help astronauts maintain muscle and blood function once they leave Earth.

Within weeks of Arecibo’s collapse, UCF entered into an agreement with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to move the Arecibo radio telescope data to TACC’s Ranch, a long-term data mass storage system.

The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch into space on Oct. 31. It will be the largest and most sophisticated observatory ever sent to space.