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IEEE 2026 Awardee Carolina Cruz-Neira: Turning a “Plan B” Into a Global Legacy

The virtual reality pioneer, who has earned the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Lifetime Achievement Award, continues to push boundaries and ask questions like, “What can we create next?”

2 Promising UCF Researchers Earn 2024 NSF CAREER Awards

Early-career professors Fan Yao and Li Fang are receiving significant research funding to continue catalyzing their work as part of an annual NSF grant program.

UCF Ranks 21st in U.S. Public Universities for Patents with 57 New Inventions in 2023

This is the 11th year that UCF has ranked in the top 100 universities in the world for patents.

UCF Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Establish Local Resiliency Hubs

The $50,000 award allows the university’s team to develop the project with government and community partners.

‘Brain-on-a-Chip’ Technology Advances Toward a New Form of Drug Screening

Brain-on-a-chip simulated models hold the potential to revolutionize and accelerate the way new drugs are discovered.

UCF Researchers Create Brain-like Devices to Enable AI in Remote Regions and Space

The work will help technology, from Siri and Alexa to advanced robots, work in remote regions of Earth or the far reaches of space.

UCF Researcher Studies Alternative Treatment for Depression, Pain and Addiction

The research paves the way for personalized treatments using neural stimulations of the brain.

NASA Selects UCF Honeybee-inspired Spacesuit Material Design for Further Development

The material’s nanostructure design is based on how honeybees and other pollinators can manipulate pollen using microstructures and electric fields.

27 UCF Graduate Programs Ranked Among the Top 100 in the Nation

Emergency management, nonprofit management and counselor education among the top programs included in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 guide to the Best Graduate Schools.

U.S. News Lists 20 of UCF’s Graduate Programs Among Best in Nation

Twenty UCF programs were ranked Tuesday among the top 100 in their fields by U.S. News & World Report in its Best Graduate Schools 2017…

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