UCF in the News

UCF grad Sashauna McKain established a community fridge to help local citizens enduring food insecurity. Located at the East End Market in Audubon Park, the fridge is filled with fresh food from some of Central Florida's top food entrepreneurs.

As UCF students begin the Spring 2021 semester, the University has implemented new COVID-19 safety policies and measures to keep members of the university community safe.

UCF has been approved as a vaccination site for faculty, staff and students. The University has created a mass vaccination plan that will serve about 4,000 people per day when doses become available.

As a precaution against COVID-19 spread, 7,000 UCF students, who are living within on-campus housing, will be rapid tested for the coronavirus during a five-day period and must receive negative results before they can check into their dormitories.

Researchers with UCF are gathering data to create artificial intelligence that will help teach autistic children about emotions and elating to people on a social and emotional level.

Chrysalis Wright, a psychology professor with the University of Central Florida who studies misinformation says memes and videos posted about the COVID-19 vaccine on social media can contain false information and ignore facts.

Kim Anderson, professor in the School of Social Work and Public Affairs, shares tips on how to find gratitude during hard times and some ways to control how we react to things we cannot control.

UCF psychology student Shacree Webb works two jobs but has found a way to give back by providing free breakfast to children and families in her community three days a week.

Over the past few years, University of Central Florida historians together with students have spoken to hundreds of Central Florida veterans about their experiences and time in the service through the Veterans History Project. Now, despite the pandemic they're finding success in continuing their collection of oral histories.