Science & Technology News

Laser scientist Christina C. C. Willis ’09MS ’13PhD will begin her one-year fellowship as a special legislative assistant in September.

The Knights advanced to the final round and placed third in their first competition as a team at the Wicked6 Cyber Games in Las Vegas.

UCF researcher and alum Hatem Abou-Senna ’03MS ’12PhD worked on a project with the Florida Department of Transportation to make left turns safer and more efficient.

The team, which is a part of the university’s decorated Hack@UCF club, will be the only all-female squad to compete at the Wicked6 Cyber Games in Las Vegas this week.

The Department of Energy selects UCF Assistant Professor Luca Argenti as the only scientist from Florida for its Early Career Research Program.

The tutoring tool developed by a UCF researcher uses artificial intelligence to help students learn more effectively by monitoring their learning activities, facial expressions, eye movements and interactions with avatars.

Biology graduate student Veronica Urgiles dedicated one of her discoveries in Ecuador to Professor Pedro Quintana-Ascencio.

Cool events to attend and connections to UCF.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the country’s historic Apollo 11 mission, UCF takes a look back, and a look forward, at its role in America’s space program.