UCF Student Achieves Excellence in Engineering, Medicine Before Graduation Inspired by personal impacts from frequent flights to France, Chloe Pinkston will use her aerospace engineering studies to inform her upcoming medical school training and a career in aerospace medicine.
Sandia National Laboratory Taps UCF Researchers to Develop Infrared Camera for Space The three-year project, supported by a $750K grant, is part of Sandia’s Photonic Enable Tera-scale InfraRed Imager (PETRI) Grand Challenge Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.
From Engineering to Counseling, Graduate Programs Highly Ranked by U.S. News Propel UCF Alumni to Thrive in Career U.S. News & World Report ranks 13 UCF graduate programs in the top 50 nationally — and alumni in those programs laud Knight Nation’s world-class faculty.
UCF Honors Faculty with 2025 Founders’ Day Awards More than 240 faculty, including Pegasus Professors and Reach for the Stars honorees, were recognized for their commitment to excellence during the annual Founders’ Day celebration.
Meet UCF’s 2025 Pegasus Professors The recipients of UCF’s most prestigious faculty honor use their inspiring backgrounds to make impacts in the fields of psychology, hospitality and cybersecurity.
Professor Mohamed Abdel-Aty Earns Medal of Societal Impact This award recognizes his global impact on transportation systems and safety, and will be awarded during the Founders’ Day on April 2.
Profound, Innovative, Analytical and Resilient: Meet UCF’s 2025 Reach for the Stars Honorees The 2025 Reach for the Stars award recipients are recognized for conducting highly successful research and fostering creative activity that has a national or international impact.
2025 Order of Pegasus, Student Awards Celebrates UCF’s Best and Brightest During the April 2 Founders’ Day event, 37 students will receive UCF’s highest student honor, which recognizes those who exemplify excellence in academic achievement, leadership and service.
It Doesn’t Take a Rocket Scientist: Alum Launches Scholarship for First-Generation Students Corey Frazier ’04 ’07MS is empowering first-generation college students and inspiring the next generation to pursue STEM careers through the Dr. Corey A. Frazier First Generation Endowed Scholarship Fund.
UCF’s Roger Azevedo Selected as AERA Fellow Azevedo’s work looks to develop adaptive learning systems that model and enhance human-machine collaboration, with applications in a variety of fields.