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.
Professor Mohamed Abdel-Aty Earns Medal of Societal Impact This award recognizes his global impact on transportation systems and safety, and will be awarded during the Founders’ Day on April 2.
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.
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.
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.
UCF Among Top 20 U.S. Public Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2024 With this ranking, UCF secures its placement with 68 patents on the National Academy of Inventors worldwide list for the 12th consecutive year.
UCF Researchers, City of Orlando Unveil Inaugural Mobile Resilience Hub Kelly Stevens, assistant professor of public administration, led the team in designing and building the solar-powered hub that will bring Orlando residents critical resources during emergencies and educational experiences year-round.
UCF to Contribute to Optimization of Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Through New National Institute The university will play a supporting role in a regional research hub that will develop digital twin technology to improve semiconductor chip manufacturing.
