School of Public Administration News

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.

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.

The NSF-funded, $1.2 million project also involves developing community partnerships and building a regional data-sharing platform to help with emergency responses.

The Master of Public Policy will help fill the need for public-service leaders who are well-versed in program evaluation and policy analysis.

Josh Colwell, Naim Kapucu, Tison Pugh and Martine Vanryckeghem have been selected for the highest academic award a professor can receive at the university.