The University of Central Florida’s innovative virtual classroom software this week received the top award from the nation’s leading training and simulation association. TLE TeachLivE™ earned the 2013 NTSA Governor’s Award for Excellence in Modeling and Simulation from the National Training and Simulation Association. The UCF software first was chosen as the winner in the [...]
The next potential video games to be developed by students at UCF’s Center for Emerging Media will be up for judging Friday, Dec. 6. The 11 games include gladiators, parasites, nightmares and other on-screen challenges, even one in which the players win not by shooting invading alients, but shooting the best photographs of them. Pitches [...]
The University of Central Florida is preparing educators to teach in classrooms where there are no pencils and no books. Instead, these teachers-in-training are on call 24/7, and their students can learn from any location. Rather than the traditional classroom internship, students in UCF’s College of Education and Human Performance are getting hands-on experience in [...]
Over 700 UCF students gathered in the Student Union to film a UCF student take on the Harlem Shake internet craze. The student produced video can be found here: UCF Harlem Shake
The UCF College of Business Administration held its annual Cornerstone Social Entrepreneurship Competition, one of the largest social entrepreneurship service learning initiatives in the world. Student teams participate in the program which provides them with an opportunity to apply their business knowledge and skills to help local non-profit organizations. The student teams are nominated and [...]
The University of Central Florida will establish the state’s first doctoral program focused exclusively on criminal justice following approval of the program by the Florida Board of Governors in November. UCF’s Department of Criminal Justice will launch the program in the fall of 2015. The program will prepare students for faculty and analyst positions in [...]
A piano with a lifetime of music lessons and professional performances will now bring melodies to local foster children, thanks to students at the UCF College of Medicine dedicated to the healing power of the arts. Medical students painted the donated piano with medical images that look like art – including DNA strands that resemble [...]
“To change is to learn and to learn is to change.” That was often the advice given to me by my mentor in life, Lew Treen, a war veteran, semi-pro baseball player, high school principal and coach. One of the most important principles I have learned is that you never should stop learning. Sometimes finding [...]
UCF’s Anxiety Disorders Clinic uses olfactory stimulants to replicate traumatic events experienced by PTSD sufferers. Visual, audio and tactile components are also used, but according to patients, smell acts as the most powerful trigger.
