Six UCF students from the National Science Foundation-sponsored LEARN program have been accepted to prestigious summer programs around the country. The program, a first-year living and learning community for science, technology, engineering and mathematics students, provides the opportunity for students to live, take courses, and do research together their first year at UCF. The program [...]
Internships with the Vans Warped Tour, the Starbucks VIA Taste Tour, and Super Bowl XVIII appeared to place former event management and hospitality management double major Jennifer Garcia’s career trajectory on a crash course with success after college. However, after Garcia initially graduated from the University of Central Florida’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management in 2009, [...]
UCF student-athletes recently concluded yet another record-breaking year in the classroom. The Knights compiled a 3.17 grade-point average for the spring term, the highest student-athlete GPA for a single semester in school history. In addition, UCF student-athletes compiled an average GPA of 3.14 for the 2012-13 academic year, which was also the best mark for [...]
University Trustee Chair
Peter Delfyett, a professor of Optics, Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his research team are working to increase the speed at which data can be transmitted through semiconductor chips like the ones found in computers. Improving that speed would help computers download information from the Internet much faster and make computer networks faster. Delfyett holds the University Trustee Chair at UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics. He also serves as president of the National Society of Black Physicists, which promotes the professional development of African-American physicists within the international science community and in society. Delfyett, who is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has taught at UCF for more than 15 years. In 2001, he won the Pegasus Professor Award, the highest honor the university gives to a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in teaching, research and service. Delfyett visits UCF’s Burnett Honors College and area middle and high schools occasionally to encourage students to pursue careers in science and engineering. He is a member of the Orlando Science Center’s advisory board. After receiving his doctorate in 1988 from the City University of New York, Delfyett joined the technical staff at Bell Communication Research, where he concentrated his efforts on generating ultrafast high-power optical pulses from semiconductor diode lasers. Delfyett serves as editor in chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics and associate editor of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. He has published more than 400 articles and been awarded 22 U.S. patents.
The works of 22 student photography students will be displayed Thursday, May 23, through July 3 in the UCF School of Visual Arts & Design Art Gallery. The free juried exhibit, entitled Introspective, will have an opening-night reception and award ceremony from 6 to 8 p.m. All of the work is for sale, including some other [...]
I believe the best education comes when you get a chance to sit down on a log and have a conversation with someone who has interesting stuff to say. It is in those moments of exchange that ideas come to life, assumptions are challenged, experiences shared and people transformed. Without this sort of dialogue, learning [...]
It is summer in Florida again, when I always think back to my first summers here and why I still love this time of year. When I arrived in Orlando 13 years ago from Texas to teach at UCF, we unpacked all the stuff from the van into the new rented condo and headed straight [...]
UCF’s many partnerships and emphasis on expanding students’ access to a high-quality education make the university a national model, a report released today by the New America Foundation concludes. The report outlines the successes of UCF and five other public research universities – referred to as “Next Generation Universities.” Programs at each of the universities [...]
