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Emergency management professionals are already reaping the benefits of the team’s labor, as their data will become part of the official USGS database for immediate access by anyone interested in undertaking flooding, hydrology or storm surge modeling.

The $50,000 award allows the university’s team to develop the project with government and community partners.

The honor is designed to recognize some of UCF’s brightest stars who shine a positive light on UCF and on their respective fields.

A UCF Study finds social media can be a powerful tool for cities to communicate and to collect information to deploy emergency resources where needed most.

The tool can provide disaster readiness reports for 13.3 million addresses in 196 counties along the Gulf of Mexico — including all of Florida, and parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas.

A master’s student reflects on her second try at graduate school while enduring challenges with motherhood, losing loved ones, COVID-19 and work before completing her degrees.

U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Graduate Schools rankings once again reflects UCF’s excellence in emergency and crisis management, engineering, public administration, and other disciplines.

Current state regulations are not conducive to allowing power purchase agreements for solar energy production in Florida, according to the new study.

The NSF-funded, $1.2 million project also involves developing community partnerships and building a regional data-sharing platform to help with emergency responses.