Pythons, Lionfish and now Willow Invade Florida's Waterways

Foreign invaders such as pythons and lionfish are not the only threats to Florida’s natural habitat. The native Carolina Willow is also starting to strangle portions of the St. Johns River. Biologists at the University of Central Florida recently completed a study that shows this slender tree once used by Native Americans for medicinal purposes, [...]

  • College of Medicine Announces First University-Sponsored Residency Program

    The University of Central Florida College of Medicine has received accreditation for its first university-sponsored residency program in partnership with the Orlando VA Medical Center and Osceola Regional Medical Center. The graduate medical education (GME) partnership is the college’s next step in bringing more trained doctors into the community. The internal medicine residency will create [...]

  • Student Photography Exhibition to Help Maintain Art Gallery Collection

    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 [...]

  • 6 Chosen for National Science Foundation Summer Programs

    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 [...]

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  • Paul Jarley's Blog: This Simply Won’t Do

    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 [...]

  • UCF Forum: An Ode to Florida’s Summer – And a Time to Remember

    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 [...]

  • National Report Lauds UCF as a 'Next Generation University'

    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 [...]

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UCF50: Promised Land

UCF Celebrates its 50th Anniversary.