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 [...]
Many of us do it – we pay more attention to our phones than even our own family, friends or pets. Some students even seem to be addicted to their cell phones because right after class they immediately pull out their phone to check their texts or make a call. Just look at how rude people [...]
Linda Walters, a UCF Pegasus Professor in the Department of Biology, has been named the new director of the university’s Center for Success of Women Faculty, which strives to recruit, retain and advance female faculty members. Walters has worked at UCF for 16 years. As a marine conservation biologist, her research focus is the human [...]
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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 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 [...]
Students, teachers and the community of Haines City will reap multiple benefits from the new 10,000-watt photovoltaic (PV) system at Haines City High School. The PV system with battery backup will provide emergency power during an outage, reduce daily electricity costs to the school, and serve as a learning resource. The Florida Solar Energy Center [...]
