UCF Expands Space Photonics Program with New Research Grants and Faculty Growth Plan Students and researchers with the passion to explore the final frontier have new opportunities at the College of Optics and Photonics.
UCF to Lead $5M Consortium to Train Nuclear Engineers The goal is to develop a pipeline of nuclear engineers and scientists who can protect the nation’s nuclear stockpile.
Ancient Artifacts Unearthed in Iraq Shed Light on Hidden History of Mesopotamia Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, an associate professor of history at UCF, and a team of researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient humans lived and advanced.
UCF Biology Researchers Win Awards From NOAA to Support Critical Coastal Work The College of Sciences and UCF Coastal receive $2.3 million for innovative coastal ecosystem research, including solutions to marine debris.
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Marks New Chapter for Florida Space Industry The agreement highlights the partnership and serves as the official start to partnering activities, with Florida now the only state with a university consortium affiliated with one of NASA’s centers.
UCF Awarded $1.25M to Prepare Special Educators, Speech-language Pathologists in Autism Through funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Project ASD 7 will help 46 scholars from two graduate programs complete their degrees and earn a certificate in the developmental disorder.
UCF Admitted to Prestigious Research Consortium to Advance Critical Engineering, Defense Innovations UCF joins the Systems Engineering Research Center, a University Affiliated Research Center consortium at the Stevens Institute of Technology, to leverage U.S. Department of Defense funding for impactful research.
NASA Selects Firefly Aerospace to Deliver UCF’s Lunar-VISE Payload to the Moon Firefly Aerospace is one of the American vendors NASA is partnering with to deliver payloads to the lunar surface through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
James Webb Space Telescope Offers Best Glimpse Ever Into the Icy Planetesimals of the Early Solar System New studies of trans-Neptunian objects reveal how their colors and surface reflectance today are linked to their formation locations in the early solar system.
Uncovering a Centaur’s Tracks: UCF Scientists Examine Unique Asteroid-Comet Hybrid UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid, giving clues to our Solar System’s origins in a newly published study.
