UCF Researchers Receive Department of Defense Grants The awards support purchases of research equipment for STEM fields.
UCF Researcher Earns 2nd Department of Defense Grant to Detect Opioids, Toxins Subith Vasu is 1 of 12 scientists and engineers to receive the prestigious 2020 award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Vasu Receives $200,000 Microsoft Investigator Fellowship The UCF researcher and his team will use the funding to analyze and identify the unique molecules found in opioids to make them easier for first responders and the military to detect them.
NASA Funds UCF Research for New Power Systems on Space Missions UCF will develop a new way of powering and heating spacecrafts when they are far from the sun and solar energy isn’t practical.
For Those Who Dream of Space, UCF is the Place In honor of the 50th anniversary of the country’s historic Apollo 11 mission, UCF takes a look back, and a look forward, at its role in America’s space program.
UCF Researchers Discover Secret to Destroy Chemical Weapons Making sure the chemicals are completely destroyed will help ensure the safety of people and those responsible for their removal.
UCF Undergrad Defines Role of CO2 in Combustion Elizabeth Wait, a senior at UCF studying biotechnology, recently published her fifth academic paper and made the cover of International Journal of Chemical Kinetics for…
Researcher Receives $1 Million Young Faculty Award to Develop Mobile Sensor to Detect Toxins University of Central Florida Engineering Professor Subith Vasu was recently awarded a $1 million DARPA Young Faculty Award to help first responders and military personnel…
New Sensor to Detect, Prevent Fire-Causing Gases in Spacecraft Developed at UCF A team of UCF researchers has developed a hazardous-gas detecting sensor that may be used to detect and prevent fires aboard spacecraft. The team published…
Biofuels or Bust: Researcher Studies Next-Generation Energy Ask Subith Vasu what drives him, and he’ll answer a rapidly changing automotive industry and consumer demand for environmentally friendly products. The assistant professor of…
