3 UCF Students Honored with the 2024 Astronaut Scholarship The Astronaut Scholarship aims to inspire university students to pursue scientific excellence and maintain the United States’ leadership in technology and innovation.
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.
UCF Fuels America’s Space Program with Innovative Education, Medicine and Tech UCF is advancing cutting-edge space research while offering unique opportunities for students to launch their careers in the space industry.
UCF Receives Prestigious Keck Foundation Award to Advance Spintronics Technology The work could change the future of electronics, making them faster and more energy efficient.
Undergraduate’s Pioneering Research on Quantum Material Helps Lay Foundation for Next-Gen Electronics Kamal Harrison’s passion and determination fueled his advanced materials research and led to his groundbreaking discoveries being published in a top journal.
New Study of Comets Provides Insight into Chemical Composition of Early Solar System Data from 25 comets were compiled to test predictions of solar system formation and evolution.
NASA Selects UCF for $35 Million Mission to the Moon’s Mysterious Gruithuisen Domes The mission will explore a region of the moon never before visited and may identify minerals and chemical resources available for future exploration.
UCF Experimental Space Dirt Used by NASA, Private Companies to Advance Space Exploration Almost 25 tons of high-fidelity simulant has been shipped so far this year to scientists and engineers around the world so they can test their ideas before launching them into space.
Fresh Take on Quantum Computing Earns UCF Graduate Student Top Prize Physics Ph.D. student Eric Switzer takes the IBM-Zerner Graduate Student Award at the Sanibel Symposium.
From the ‘Smithsonian’ Magazine to the Tonight Show, UCF Research has a Big Year in the News UCF’s Top 10 research stories focused on work that battled threats and sought out opportunities to advance us as a species.
