U.S. News Online 2026 Rankings: UCF’s People-First, Tech Enhanced Approach Earns Highest Honors Yet As UCF celebrates decades of leading digital learning, we’re recognized for a sustainable model that increases access to education and raises standards at the same time.
UCF Alum Turns Passion into Profit with Virtual Tutoring Startup With a desire to spread his wealth of knowledge in both traditional academics and financial literacy, Steven Keys ’14MAT co-founded a successful virtual tutoring startup and runs a lifestyle blog to inspire others to follow suit.
UCF Researcher, Nonprofit Create AI-Powered Tool to Reduce Florida Overdoses Through her collaborative research with Project Overdose, Kendall Cortelyou helped develop an online dashboard to prevent fatal drug overdoses by alerting local authorities to the presence of prevalent drugs in the community.
UCF Women’s Club Honors 3 Graduate Students with Prestigious Sheila B. Somerville Scholarship The transformative scholarship recognizes outstanding UCF students who demonstrate academic and professional excellence.
First-Generation UCF Grad Leverages AI to Boost Nonprofits’ Impact Ketty Dones ’23, who is graduating with dual master’s degrees in public administration and nonprofit management, works with the Applied AI Innovation Initiative at UCF to provide local nonprofit organizations with technical assistance for AI-integrated solutions that help drive their missions.
UCF’s Fall 2025 Commencement Set for Dec. 12-13 Fall graduates will hear from four distinguished speakers who’ve made significant contributions in business, education and community impact.
UCF Associate Professor’s Research to Explore Impact of Laws Shaping the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment Barbara “Basia” Andraka-Christou and her team will study a decade’s worth of state laws, insurance claims data and more to understand how state law requirements for emergency departments affect overdose patients.
Staci Zavattaro Earns UCF’s Inaugural Big 12 Faculty Fellowship 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.
UCF Relationship Education Program to Support First Responder Couples, Parents 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.
Classrooms Without Walls UCF alum Robin Winder ’92 has been a driving force behind the virtual (and literal) transformation of education in Florida.
How Theme Park Expansion and Investment Will Meet — and Exceed — Guest Expectations Orlando Business Journal
As Humans Return to the Moon, Researchers are Trying to Understand—and Thwart—the Biological Toll of Deep-Space Radiation Science
