UCF Honors Faculty with 2025 Founders’ Day Awards More than 240 faculty, including Pegasus Professors and Reach for the Stars honorees, were recognized for their commitment to excellence during the annual Founders’ Day celebration.
Meet UCF’s 2025 Pegasus Professors The recipients of UCF’s most prestigious faculty honor use their inspiring backgrounds to make impacts in the fields of psychology, hospitality and cybersecurity.
How UCF Researchers Are Playing Key Role in Discovering Health Impacts of Space Travel College of Medicine Professor Michal Masternak and two graduate students are processing health samples last Saturday from Fram2, the latest commercial spaceflight and the first crewed flight to orbit Earth over its polar regions.
Profound, Innovative, Analytical and Resilient: Meet UCF’s 2025 Reach for the Stars Honorees The 2025 Reach for the Stars award recipients are recognized for conducting highly successful research and fostering creative activity that has a national or international impact.
UCF’s ‘Space Czar’ Nominated to Become NASA’s Chief Financial Officer Greg Autry, who serves as UCF’s associate provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy, is nationally recognized for his leadership in space research and innovation.
2025 Order of Pegasus, Student Awards Celebrates UCF’s Best and Brightest During the April 2 Founders’ Day event, 37 students will receive UCF’s highest student honor, which recognizes those who exemplify excellence in academic achievement, leadership and service.
It Doesn’t Take a Rocket Scientist: Alum Launches Scholarship for First-Generation Students Corey Frazier ’04 ’07MS is empowering first-generation college students and inspiring the next generation to pursue STEM careers through the Dr. Corey A. Frazier First Generation Endowed Scholarship Fund.
High-Tech Talent: UCF’s Video Game Design Programs Rank Among World’s Best for 2025 UCF is recognized for its excellence across these programs, which have prepared hundreds of graduates who help craft some of the best-selling video games in the world — fueling a $400-billion industry.
Astrophysics Observatory SPHEREx Launches on its Way to Study the Origins of the Universe The infrared space telescope will spend about two years orbiting Earth from over 400 miles overhead, collecting data on more than 450 million galaxies.
UCF’s Roger Azevedo Selected as AERA Fellow Azevedo’s work looks to develop adaptive learning systems that model and enhance human-machine collaboration, with applications in a variety of fields.
How Central Florida Healthcare Providers Are Balancing Innovation with Human Oversight, Patient Safety Orlando Inno
