Knight’s Pantry Tackles Food Insecurity During COVID-19 Pandemic The Knights Helping Knights Pantry has pivoted its operations during the pandemic in order to safely serve students in need of food. Spectrum News 13
UCF Ranks Among Most Innovative Universities in America for 2021, According to U.S. News & World Report UCF tied with Cornell University at No. 16 on U.S. News & World Report's Most Innovative Schools list. Orlando Business Journal
UCF Introduces New University Policy to Help Students ’Remain Healthy and Well While On and Off Campus’ UCF has introduced new policies to help maintain student health and wellbeing, both on and off campus, amid the pandemic. Among other measures, the policies include avoiding gatherings of 12 or more people, compliance with the University’s mobile self-checker, and requiring the reporting of a positive COVID test WFTV Channel 9
UCF Study Could Predict Future Hurricane Storm Surge As we enter peak hurricane season, UCF’s National Center for Integrated Coastal Research is developing models to better predict storm surges in the future. Spectrum News 13
UCF Co-Developing Fast-Acting Disinfectant UCF is developing a rapid-acting, long-lasting disinfectant that instantly kills viruses without the harsh chemicals. Once sprayed this disinfectant leaves behind a temporary, but continually disinfecting film. WOFL Fox 35
Five Tech Innovations That Could Change Healthcare This Decade Virtual reality is one of five out-of-this-world technologies that could shape the future of healthcare, including the treatment of PTSD. UCF Restores is a University of Central Florida program that treats veterans and survivors of trauma using virtual reality to gently and carefully simulate appropriate environmental cues. Forbes
UCF Engineering Students Help OUC Improve Solar Energy Efficiency UCF students built a piece of technology called a “skycam" that maps cloud movements in the area and helps predict their movement over solar farms. WKMG News 6
UCF App Helps Those Isolated by Coronavirus Get Outdoors A UCF professor is using virtual and augmented reality to help anyone dealing with stress, depression, or isolation because of the coronavirus pandemic. Spectrum News 13
Fine-Tuning Lessons: Award-Winning Music Teachers Share Coronavirus Challenges Jeffrey Redding, UCF’s new Choral Activities Director, was one of three teachers who have won the GRAMMY Music Educator Award featured in this story. CBS News