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.
Recipients of the 2024-25 Seed Funding Program Announced The program awarded a total of $500,000 to 21 new projects. This is the fourth year the program has been available to UCF faculty and researchers.
UCF Researchers Receive $600K Grant to Develop Intelligent Assistive Robotics The robots can help adults with upper extremity disabilities to perform essential tasks like eating and grooming.
New UCF, Orlando Health Physical Therapy Residency Program Aims to Improve Women’s Health The program, which is the second in Florida and one of only 22 in the country, provides training related to pelvic floor therapy, pelvic and breast cancer, menopause management, and more.
Graduating UCF Student Founded Business to Help Others Obtain Disability Benefits By combining personal inspiration with technology, the health sciences major has created a startup business that expedites the Social Security Disability benefits application and approval process.
Forging a Path for New Generations A survivor of domestic violence, a UCF alum and graduate student has turned a challenging upbringing into success, becoming a role model for herself and others.
UCF Health Sciences Researcher Embraces Florida as Her Living Lab Curiosity led Qianxia Jiang from Asia to America and eventually to UCF, where she believes her research around the environmental influences on healthy lifestyles can — and will — lead to meaningful change.
UCF Named Top Producer for Fulbright Students for Second Year Here are the Knights making an impact worldwide through the U.S. government’s most prestigious academic exchange program.
Changing How we Care for People with Dementia Associate Professor Nicole Dawson and her collaborators merged decades of clinical experience in geriatric physical therapy, psychology and counseling to create a new treatment framework designed specifically for rehabilitation professionals.
Students Use AI to Improve Health Literacy Undergraduate students in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders are leveraging the latest technology to simplify patient education materials.
