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 Student’s Primitive Asteroids Work Provides Context for Further Research, Future NASA Missions Brittany Harvison studied the composition of families of ancient asteroids to better understand the history of our solar system and if they may have carried water to Earth.
Undergraduate’s Pioneering Research on Quantum Material Helps Lay Foundation for Next-Gen Electronics Kamal Harrison’s passion and determination fueled his advanced materials research and led to his groundbreaking discoveries being published in a top journal.
New Study of Comets Provides Insight into Chemical Composition of Early Solar System Data from 25 comets were compiled to test predictions of solar system formation and evolution.
UCF Recognizes 6 Top Scholars as 2022 Luminary Award Winners The honor is designed to recognize some of UCF’s brightest stars who shine a positive light on UCF and on their respective fields.
New $1.25 Million Research Project Will Map Materials at the Nanoscale The work can lead to new catalysts and other compounds that could be applicable in a range of areas including quantum science, renewable energy, life sciences and sustainability.
NASA Selects UCF for $35 Million Mission to the Moon’s Mysterious Gruithuisen Domes The mission will explore a region of the moon never before visited and may identify minerals and chemical resources available for future exploration.
UCF Professor Awarded NSF Grant to Fund Groundbreaking Friction Research Masahiro Ishigami’s work is poised to help bridge a major knowledge gap in the application of nanoscale friction models to high-speed, real-world systems.
UCF Experimental Space Dirt Used by NASA, Private Companies to Advance Space Exploration Almost 25 tons of high-fidelity simulant has been shipped so far this year to scientists and engineers around the world so they can test their ideas before launching them into space.
Fresh Take on Quantum Computing Earns UCF Graduate Student Top Prize Physics Ph.D. student Eric Switzer takes the IBM-Zerner Graduate Student Award at the Sanibel Symposium.
