Teachers from Central Florida high schools gathered at UCF on Wednesday, June 12, to participate in the Teaching Global Peace and Security Workshop. Designed to bring issues of global peace and security to high school classrooms, the workshop covered a broad range of topics. The teachers heard from multiple presenters throughout the day. John C. [...]
Two UCF alumni were recognized this week by Seminole County Public Schools as Rookie Teachers of the Year for their outstanding contributions as classroom teachers. Ryan Garrett, a 2011 social science education graduate, and Derek Jensen, a 2010 science education alum, were awarded the middle and high school honors, respectively. Rookie teachers were recommended by [...]
Children wave flags and hold on tight while giving final hugs to their moms and dads heading to war. After those tearful goodbyes, the children return home to face life –first days of school, drivers’ tests and first dates. Those scenes have played out for decades, but today’s military children face a challenge not experienced [...]
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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.
I know it is Monday and responding to suggestions from my tweeps is supposed to happen on Thursdays, but we are in summer session at UCF. This is a time of year when we do crazy things like teach in shorts and offer the same section of a class five times a week so students [...]
After another stellar campaign, UCF sophomore Octavious Freeman was named the Conference USA Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year, the league office announced Thursday. A native of Lake Wales, Fla., Freeman also won the C-USA honor as a freshman a year ago. Freeman ended the NCAA Championships as a USTFCCCAA All-American in the women’s 100m, [...]
Jeffrey Stout joined UCF as an associate professor in January 2012 and is the coordinator for UCF’s Sport and Exercise Science program, which is housed in the College of Education and Human Performance. When he’s not writing about exercise performance, teaching sports nutrition, or overseeing research as director of UCF’s Human Performance Lab, Stout practices [...]
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary George Sheldon spent more than two hours Thursday listening to several men share their experiences as fathers and sons during a roundtable discussion at UCF’s Marriage & Family Research Institute. Sheldon visited the institute’s location in south Orlando after speaking at the 15th annual International Fatherhood [...]
