UCF in the News

UCF student Madison Jarocha is living with an autoimmune disease while pursuing her bachelor's degree in nursing during the coronavirus pandemic.

Pamela “Sissi” Carroll, dean of the College of Community Innovation and Education, co-penned an opinion editorial that makes the case for the value of community partnership schools.

A new UCF documentary spotlights how two Central Florida high school band teachers overlooked race to bring each school’s marching band to the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

UCF was one of several Florida colleges and universities to place prominently in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of top online bachelor's degree programs.

UCF’s John C. Hitt Library is now home to a massive, automated book retrieval system. UCF is the only university in Florida and one of only a handful of universities in the nation to construct a stand-alone book retrieval center of this size and magnitude.

At UCF, instructional design staff are helping professors and students bring creativity and innovation into their coursework.

UCF is examining wastewater from university residence halls to help prevent coronavirus outbreaks on campus.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced two appointments to the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees last week. They are Daytona Beach's Bill Christy, the chief executive officer of Cognitive Kinetics and Challenge North America, as well as Windermere's Jeff Condello, chief executive officer of Randall Construction.

UCF is named as one of the universities whose students designed and assembled small satellites that were launched into orbit on Sunday aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne Rocket. UCF’s satellite studies how small particles collide in space.