UCF Teacher Education Alumna Inspires Future Generations Through NASA Outreach Cat Toon ’13 encourages everyone to follow their passion and know they can explore opportunities in space and aeronautics from outside a traditional STEM field.
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.
UCF Joins Digital Twin Consortium as Regional Branch Organizer The Digital Twin Consortium, established in 2020, is a widely recognized authority in digital twin technology.
New Future Faculty Laureates Program to Prepare Students for Academic Careers The program prepares qualified electrical engineering and computer science doctoral students to work at Research 1 universities.
UCF Limbitless Solutions Is Featured in The Franklin Institute’s Newest Exhibit, Body Odyssey Two bionic arms from Limbitless Solutions displayed in the innovation gallery of the new exhibit, showcasing wearable and creative technology shaping the future.
U.S. Space Command Commander Explores Innovation, Research Capabilities at UCF The tour highlighted UCF’s role as SpaceU and reaffirmed critical partnerships with USSPACECOM to advance research and innovation.
UCF Named Co-lead on Multi-million Dollar Department of Defense Grant for STEM Education As part of the Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Research Universities, UCF joins the University of Texas at El Paso on a $9.3 million project to accelerate STEM education and research.
Scientists are Baffled After Discovering a Unique Asteroid-comet Hybrid That’s Like Nothing Seen Before Daily Mail