UCF in the News

UCF Celebrates the Arts will be back at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts beginning April 2 with a special community partner and participation by a homegrown Broadway star.

The Knights (16-4) earned a No. 10 seed, the highest in program history, for their sixth trip to the tournament in program history.

Students in UCF’s Asian Pacific Coalition are planning a vigil to honor the victims of the Atlanta shooting. Members said it’s difficult knowing it took eight people being murdered, six of them Asian, to highlight an issue some Asian communities have long been worried about.

UCF Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, Elena Cyrus, says when considering the gym, exercising caution is still key in indoor classes where you don’t know the vaccination status of those near you.

Kerri Donaldson Hanna, a UCF physics professor, is working with NASA to discover what rocks and the soil on the moon’s south pole surface contain – research that could be key for future human and robotic exploration.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has reappointed Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins to the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees. Martins has worked on the board for the past eight years, including serving as the vice chair until the end of his term in January.

While in Dallas watching UCF men’s basketball prepare for its AAC quarterfinal against Memphis on Friday, Terry Mohajir spoke with the Orlando Sentinel about his so far brief, but busy, time on the job.

Nearly 200 UCF student nurses are serving at community vaccination sites. The goal is to provide all students who plan to graduate this spring with the opportunity to participate in at least one vaccination administration.

Thomas Wahl, a UCF engineering professor, recently co-authored a study on the relationship between coastal development and nuisance flooding.