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Inaugural Schell Award Recognizes Innovative Writing Instruction

Dan Murphree, associate professor of History, is the inaugural winner of an innovative writing instruction award named in honor of Rick Schell, UCF’s vice president and chief of staff. The Schell Award for Implementing Innovative Writing Instruction in the Disciplines will be given annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated commitment to and success […]
Students Achieve Excellence

Of the thousands of students pursuing their graduate education at UCF each year, four students are selected from a group of nominees in each college as the university winners in the areas of Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching, Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Outstanding Master’s Thesis, and Outstanding Dissertation. Each award recipient is recognized […]
UCF to Collect Expired, Unwanted Drugs April 24

Got drugs? If your answer is “Yes,” UCF wants them. But the university won’t ask any more questions about them. UCF Police and UCF Health Services will partner to collect expired, unwanted or unused prescription drugs as part of an anonymous, no-questions-asked national effort to curb drug abuse and safely dispose of unneeded medicine. UCF’s […]

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In 2012, GreenWaves, UCF’s annual “green” event, incorporated a POWERleap dance floor, which utilized piezoelectric technology to convert the crowd’s kinetic energy into reusable energy for the concert.

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The Hopeful Knights Make Cornerstone Competition History

The UCF College of Business Administration’s Cornerstone course engaged 20 student teams that competed in the Spring 2014 Cornerstone Social Entrepreneurship Competition. The competition is the lab portion of the Cornerstone course, in which students create teams, develop and implement a business-fundraising plan for a cause of their choice. The winners of this year’s Cornerstone […]
Senior Design: 'A Great Victory' for Graduating Engineering Students

The day finally arrived. UCF’s engineering and computer science Senior Design Day showcase on April 18 was a culmination of 30 weeks of, as one student described, “blood, sweat and tears.” Innovation was the star of the show – a spectacle of projects created by graduating seniors of the UCF College of Engineering and Computer […]
Some Graduates Have a Plan – For You Others…

As the school year comes to a close, the inevitable question arises for graduating students: What am I going to do? Some of you have a plan. Some of you already have a job or have been accepted into a graduate program. And then some of you have no clue. What is life after school? […]
UCF Joust Champions Win $10,000 Healthcare Business Competition

Two University of Central Florida (UCF) undergraduate students took first place in the University of South Florida’s (USF) State of Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition on April 7. They received a cash price of $10,000 for their invention of Smartway, a female urinary device that also secured them the 2013 UCF Joust championship. Competitors in the […]