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  • Lessons In Life, Death And Compassionate Care

    How should The Good Doctor respond when medical care can offer no cure? How does The Good Doctor deal with death and dying? First-year students at the UCF College of Medicine came face to face with those questions as they worked recently with hospice care providers and terminally ill patients. Their lessons included how teamwork […]

  • Economic Recovery on a Leash Because of Legislative Jumble

    The implementation of laws pertaining to America’s health care and banking institutions is keeping the economy on a leash, when it could be running free. The Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank Act rollouts have collapsed into a jumble – a mass of things mingled together without order, a confused mixture, a disordered mass, said University […]

  • New Program Helps Students Make it to Finish Line

    From first generation students to those going back to school to change careers, a new UCF program is helping students just shy of finishing their college degree graduate. UCF’s Knights Graduation Initiative focuses on students who are 18 credits or fewer from earning their undergraduate degrees, but who are experiencing difficulty and are in danger […]

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A doctor in training is schooled in the fine art of inserting a needle into an arm. His first patient? His instructor.

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  • Field Trip to UCF to Encourage Fifth Graders to Set Goals, Finish College

    Field Trip to UCF to Encourage Fifth Graders to Set Goals, Finish College

    About 650 fifth graders from Orange County schools will see firsthand the opportunities that college can provide for them when they visit the University of Central Florida Monday, March 17. Achieve a College Education Day, or ACE Day, is intended to inspire children by showing them they are capable of one day earning a college […]

  • Future Marine Biologists Teach UCF’s Littlest Knights About Ocean Creatures

    Future Marine Biologists Teach UCF's Littlest Knights About Ocean Creatures

    Future marine biologists sharpened their communication skills Wednesday while pre-schoolers learned about sea creatures during UCF’s annual Ocean Day activities. Twelve students in Linda Walters’ marine biology lab and marine biology class visited the Creative School on campus to teach children about sea creatures and those found in Florida waterways. Walters has been working with […]

  • The Anxiety of ‘Read It Later’

    The Anxiety of 'Read It Later'

    As a kid, I loved horror movies, and so one year I set out to record every horror movie ever made. My parents had purchased a box of blank VHS tapes from Sam’s Club, and I used Super Long Play to record three movies to a single tape. (The quality was terrible, but this was […]

  • U.S. News, Princeton Review Rank 24 UCF Graduate Programs Among Nation’s Best

    U.S. News, Princeton Review Rank 24 UCF Graduate Programs Among Nation's Best

    The University of Central Florida’s video game graduate school ranks No. 2 in North America, and 23 other UCF graduate programs rank among the top 100 in their fields in the United States. The Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy’s No. 2 ranking was released today by The Princeton Review and PC Gamer Magazine. FIEA has been […]

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A Graduation Story

More than 4,500 UCF students graduated during December 15-16 commencement ceremonies. The anticipated graduates include 3,712 who filed intents to receive bachelor’s degrees, 810 for master’s degrees, four for education specialist degrees and 65 for doctoral degrees. With this week’s graduations, UCF will have awarded more than 225,000 degrees since classes began in 1968.