UCF in the News

Jeannie Kiriwas, associate director of Student Union Event Services, oversees operations for the Knights Helping Knights Food Pantry. She recently sat down for a far-reaching interview about food insecurity and UCF's efforts to prevent it within our student population.

Humberto Campins, a UCF professor of planetary science, has coauthored three new papers on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. He has done extensive research on the asteroid’s thermal behavior, noting that the asteroid is a treasure trove of useful information about orbital bodies.

John Hanley, a UCF lecturer in the School of Politics, Security and International Affairs, provided expert insight into coverage of the first presidential debate.

Bill Cooper, a UCF American Sign Language professor who is hearing impaired, says he has come up with innovative teaching strategies that allows him and his students to seamlessly communicate in a virtual setting.

Trey Gordon, an alumnus who graduated in 1996, recalls co-creating the first renderings of the Knight’s mascot design. Gordon has enjoyed watching the design and students’ affections for Knightro evolve over the last quarter century.

Tanvir Khan, an air quality engineer and researcher at the Florida Solar Energy Center, which is part of the University of Central Florida, says there is no scientific evidence suggesting that essential oils improve air quality.

President Cartwright talks with Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi about his first few months on the job, his philosophy on college athletics, UCF’s rising enrollment even during the pandemic and his formative years growing up in the Bahamas.

The UCF-based firm, which creates prosthetic limbs using 3-D printers, will move to a new facility, more than doubling its lab space. The additional space will help the firm as it expands its operations to serve adults as well children.

UCF is now looking to track the spread with student coronavirus contact tracers. In all, 700 students applied to be a student contact tracer, and six were chosen.