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.
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.
Shin-Tson Wu Honored at Founders’ Day for Big 12 Conference’s Faculty of the Year Award Wu is a Pegasus Professor and pioneer in liquid crystal displays, which has helped advance the development of technologies such as smart phones, tablets, augmented reality and virtual reality.
7 UCF Health Professions Faculty Inducted to National Academies of Practice Seven faculty members in the College of Health Professions and Sciences were inducted into the NAP for exemplary interprofessional research, practice and scholarship.
Founders’ Day 2025: Celebrating Student, Faculty and Staff Knights Employees, faculty, and students will be recognized at three separate ceremonies in the Pegasus Ballroom.
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 College of Nursing Dean Receives Prestigious Master of Critical Care Medicine Designation Mary Lou Sole, who has dedicated four decades of clinical practice and research to improving outcomes for critically ill patients, is among five critical care experts worldwide to be honored by the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
UCF Launches Bold Faculty Hiring Initiative to Meet Growing Demand for Engineers, Computer Scientists The investment, which includes hiring up to 36 new faculty, will help support the region’s economic vitality as Orlando was recently recognized as a top tech hub.
2 UCF Healthcare Simulation Experts Named Global Fellows Jason Konzelmann and Syretta Spears, from UCF’s Colleges of Medicine and Nursing, respectively, were honored for their significant contributions to simulation in healthcare education.
Spotlight: UCF Celebrates the Arts Elevates Collaboration of Arts and Tech Central Florida Public Media
‘National leader’: UCF Graduate Programs Get Recognition in U.S. News & World Report Florida Politics
