UCF Graduate Student Heads to Notre Dame for Tenure-track Position After Commencement Modeling and simulation doctoral student Karla Badillo-Urquiola ’14 ’15MS, says her family, UCF’s interdisciplinary programs, and her mentor were the winning formula for her success.
10 UCF Students Recognized by NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program A Google co-founder and other changemakers have received these awards in the past. Two of the awardees graduate this spring.
Student Research Week: The Impact of Disaster Migration on Receiving Communities Graduate student Ashley Steen is looking at the impact of the Puerto Rican migration to the Central Florida community following damage caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
Two Knights Awarded 2022 Foreign Affair Fellowships A current student has earned the Rangel Graduate Fellowship and a recent alum was awarded the Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship — both of which will prepare the individuals for future careers in the U.S. Foreign Service.
UCF’s Historical Graduation Ceremony is Also Personal Sharon Park ’19 ’20MS is one of 1,700 UCF graduates expected to return to campus for the in-person milestone they missed in 2020. Her reason for coming home illustrates precisely why it matters.
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott Makes $40 Million Transformational Investment in UCF The largest gift in the university’s history will strengthen proven pathways to opportunity, fueling student success, academic excellence and faculty research for generations.
From Playing Music in Miami to Studying Neuroscience at MIT The first in his family to earn a college degree, Bryan Medina ’21 graduated this semester with a bachelor’s in computer science and will pursue a doctorate in neuroscience at the prestigious Cambridge school.
16 Knights Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships — Most in UCF History Program participants are selected by the National Science Foundation for a five-year fellowship recognizing their achievements in science, technology, engineering and math.
From Myth to Reality Until George Walters-Marrah ’20 went into a UCF lab for the first time, he didn’t know if scientists existed. The first-generation college graduate will continue being one at Stanford this fall.
15 UCF Students Named National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows Selected students have the potential to make significant impacts in their fields of study.
