Research News

The award provides faculty with new opportunities for travel, discovery and impact, highlighting the academic value of UCF’s membership in the Big 12 Athletic Conference.

Supported through a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-funded grant, Project Harmony is building a tailored, free curriculum to address relationship stressors unique to couples in the first responder and parenting communities.

UCF Physics Professor Lauren McKeown and colleagues are studying a spider-like formation on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to understand how it formed and what it reveals about subsurface brine pools and potential habitability.

Professor Debashis Chanda’s low-cost, smartphone-based biosensor could bring rapid, reliable disease detection to areas with limited access to traditional diagnostics.

The 2025 ShanghaiRanking report recognizes UCF’s transportation science and technology program as the best nationally for the first time and Rosen College as America’s premier hospitality and tourism program for the sixth year in a row.

The Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology (FAAST) Center has aided thousands in need of assistive devices; trained caregivers and future clinicians; and served as a key partner in research initiatives over the last 20 years.

After growing up in a town built to foster scientific exploration, Assistant Professor Kirill Medvedev joins another academic community of innovators and inventors who are improving the world.

UCF College of Medicine Associate Professor Laura Brattain is offering opportunities to learn how robotics, medical ultrasound and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to help physicians and patients.

From computer vision to mathematics, these alums are emerging leaders in significant research fields.