UCF celebrates its first anniversary this month of operating the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.The observatory is the first national research center that UCF has led. It is home to one of the world’s most sensitive…
UCF researchers have developed a way to control the speed of light. Not only can they speed up a pulse of light and slow it down, they can also make it travel backward.
OVERVIEW It used to be just older generations that worried about finding the money to pay for health care – not anymore. In fact, research shows that millennials are the most commonly affected generation by medical debt in the U.S. And while the U.S. health care system is different than other countries around the world, …
Research doesn’t end when students graduate. Conducting research keeops practicing engineers, emergency management operators and doctors current on new techniques and allows them to discover best practices that can impact entire industries.
OVERVIEW Your fridge orders milk when you run low. Your thermostat kicks back on minutes before you return home. Your voice changes a channel or a music playlist. Enter the world of connected devices, or the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT market shows no signs of slowing. McKinsey & Company estimates that the worldwide …
Imagine earning cash for delivering an epic elevator pitch about your research. No need to imagine. Come check out UCF’s first 3MT Competition.
FIEA student game Long Arm Of the Law won second place Thursday in the Best Visual Quality and Best Gameplay categories at the 2019 Intel University Games Showcase in San Francisco. It is the third straight year that a game from UCF’s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy has placed in two different categories.
OVERVIEW Daily steps counted – check. Glucose levels – check. Personal trainer follow-up – check. Stress-busting tips – check. From shopping to hailing a ride, with the click of a button or a swipe of a screen, technology has revolutionized our everyday lives. But can it change the way we address the global issue of …
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Sometimes the unexpected is more exciting than finding exactly what you thought you’d find, and this is indeed the case for the science team involved in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sample mission.
Using nanotechnology, UCF researchers have developed the first rapid detector for dopamine, a chemical that is believed to play a role in various diseases such as Parkinson’s, depression and some cancers.
