On Campus — Fall 2021
From a Welcome Back Social to Hispanic Heritage Month observances, there was a lot to celebrate during the Fall 2021 semester.
Director of the Arboretum and Landscape and Natural Resources and Professor of Biology Patrick Bohlen worked in the campus greenhouse.
Two students posed with Knightro during the Welcome Back Popsicle Social held near the Reflecting Pond.
Members of the student organization Out in STEM gathered for a photoshoot in UCF Downtown’s UnionWest at Creative Village.
Seba Villalobos and Burnett Honors Scholars Daniel West and Sharon Barak ’21 practiced before competing in the International Collegiate Programming Contest North America championship and advancing to the World Finals.
A dancer performed in the Student Union’s Cape Florida Ballroom during a Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month Showcase.
Kristen Scott celebrates with her teammates after scoring a goal in the women’s soccer team’s 2-1 win against No. 7 Penn State.
For the first time in nearly 10 years, the UCF Art Gallery featured artwork in August and September from the university’s permanent collection as part of its Out of the Vault Exhibition. The ceramic sculpture on the right, “Vessel with armadillos on legs” (Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed), is one of the oldest pieces in the collection, dating to A.D. 300–700. The collection includes donated works by well-known artists Thomas Hart Benton, John Chamberlain, Dorothy Gillespie, Doris Leeper and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.
More powerful than our earthly gravity, the strengths and stories that united SpaceX’s Inspiration4 crew helped propel them from ordinary to extraordinary and out into cosmic orbit. Just as they have since the university’s founding, UCF researchers, alumni and students continue to advance human spaceflight, space research and exploration through their ingenuity.