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From Archivist to Author: UCF Alumna Publishes University-inspired Trivia Book

Mary Rubin ’12 ’19MA draws from her experience as a two-time UCF graduate and her decade-long career preserving the university’s history to create an entertaining trivia book spanning more than six decades of UCF history.

Remembering UCF’s First Piano Professor

Dr. Leonidas Sarakatsannis, UCF’s first piano professor, died on April 9th, but his memory lives on in the students he inspired. He was part of…

Joe Biden FTU's Last Commencement Speaker

In 1978, a young Senator Joseph Biden stepped-up to the podium as Florida Technological University’s (FTU) commencement speaker. The university didn’t take-on its current name…

An orange. An astronaut. Almost a mascot.

Maybe you’ve heard about the history of the UCF mascot; maybe you’ve even heard about the Citronaut. Ever seen it? Other choices would emerge–from a…

Fall of the Ivory Tower?

It sounds like a subject of recent academic debate, but it’s actually a prediction made by Governor Claude Kirk at UCF’s (then FTU) ground breaking…

Millican’s Peanut Butter and Cheese Crackers

Charles Millican, UCF’s first President, was also the university’s first employee. Millican was instrumental in building the university from the ground up–literally and metaphorically. And…

First Football Game (1979)

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