These three honorees have personal motivations driving them to use research to take us into a new frontier.

The milestone partnership will give UCF students real-world experience with one of the world’s most respected financial institutions, while leveraging the university’s faculty excellence, research power, and startup-like agility to anticipate market and technology disruptions.

Charting her own course through aerospace engineering and physics, first-generation student Kaaliyah McGaughy is proving that curiosity and determination can launch anyone toward their dreams.