UCF in the News

Unveiled in fall 2020, a colorful art-glass wall is part of the UCF Downtown campus. The project was produced by a partnership of UCF and Valencia leaders and Parramore residents and business owners.

UCF has begun administering its initial 1,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare workers and to faculty, staff and students age 65 or older.

UCF administrators recently estimated that open educational resources saved their students more than three-quarters of a million dollars over the fall semester.

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.