School of Public Administration News

As chief for Central Florida’s largest fire and rescue department, alum Anthony Rios ’12 ’15MPA ’22PhD is ensuring Orange County’s residents and visitors are in good hands.

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.

As the only pilot site in the southeast for the new Service to Service initiative, UCF is poised to help prepare veterans transitioning into civilian life find new ways to serve their communities through public service education.

Claire Connolly Knox is the fifth School of Public Administration faculty member to be honored as an academy fellow.

Emergency management professionals are already reaping the benefits of the team’s labor, as their data will become part of the official USGS database for immediate access by anyone interested in undertaking flooding, hydrology or storm surge modeling.

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

The tool can provide disaster readiness reports for 13.3 million addresses in 196 counties along the Gulf of Mexico — including all of Florida, and parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas.

A master’s student reflects on her second try at graduate school while enduring challenges with motherhood, losing loved ones, COVID-19 and work before completing her degrees.

Current state regulations are not conducive to allowing power purchase agreements for solar energy production in Florida, according to the new study.