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.
James Webb Space Telescope Offers Best Glimpse Ever Into the Icy Planetesimals of the Early Solar System New studies of trans-Neptunian objects reveal how their colors and surface reflectance today are linked to their formation locations in the early solar system.
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.
2 Promising UCF Researchers Earn 2024 NSF CAREER Awards Early-career professors Fan Yao and Li Fang are receiving significant research funding to continue catalyzing their work as part of an annual NSF grant program.
UCF Student’s Primitive Asteroids Work Provides Context for Further Research, Future NASA Missions Brittany Harvison studied the composition of families of ancient asteroids to better understand the history of our solar system and if they may have carried water to Earth.
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.
UCF Recognizes 6 Top Scholars as 2022 Luminary Award Winners The honor is designed to recognize some of UCF’s brightest stars who shine a positive light on UCF and on their respective fields.
