UCF Recognizes Nine Top Faculty at 2024 Luminary Awards The honor is designed to recognize some of UCF’s brightest stars who shine a positive light on UCF and in their respective fields.
Studying the Surge Associate Professor Thomas Wahl is using machine learning to analyze flood-prone areas in order to better prepare and protect these regions.
Gold May Be Key Element for Cleaner Drinking Water UCF researchers are using gold to develop a novel method to remove toxins from drinking water.
UCF Expertise Tapped to Help Combat Land, Ecological Losses in Mississippi River Delta Goals for the MissDelta project include collecting data on the coastal water levels and ocean waves inside of the Birdsfoot region of the Mississippi River and using that data to analyze the extreme storm surges and wave events.
UCF Research Sets New Funding Record for Fiscal Year 2023 More than $217 million in research awards were received in fiscal year 2023, funding transformative projects ranging from moon missions to community schools.
New UCF Tech Uses AI, VR to Monitor Safety of Bridges, Buildings Civil infrastructure systems in developed countries are aging and require monitoring of their structural health.
UCF Students Receive $25,000 EPA Grant to Develop Toxin Biosensor for Drinking Water The biosensor will be an onsite, early detector of harmful blue-green algae blooms, which are known to cause health problems in humans.
UCF is Designing Self-repairing Oyster Reefs to Protect Florida’s Coastlines The work is sponsored by a $12.6 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant that seeks to create self-repairing, biological and human-engineered reef-mimicking structures.
UCF Ranks as a Top 25 U.S. Public University for Patents Granted The rankings place UCF ahead of leading public and private institutions such as Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Florida State University.
New Study Shows People Are Willing to Start Cycling More Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Although the changes to behavior were not always triggered by free will and in many cases forced by external circumstances, the findings show there are some positive consequences of the pandemic.
