In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory made history by beaming the most powerful radio message into deep space ever made. The famous Arecibo Message was designed by the AO 74’s staff, led by Frank Drake, and with the help of the astronomer and famed science communicator Carl Sagan.
OVERVIEW At the close of 2018, more than $75 billion is expected to be raised through initial public offerings (IPOs) in the U.S. alone. European IPO markets have seen close to €26 billion raised through Q3. However, as big a year as 2018 has been for IPOs, 2019 could be even larger – with capital …
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From red tide to runoff, the Indian River Lagoon faces many threats. Microplastics may be the newest identified enemy, but a team of UCF researchers and collaborators is racing to find answers before it is too late.
Nemours Children’s Hospital and UCF today announced a first-of-its kind program that provides highly specialized schooling to chronically ill children in a way that’s tailored to their specific disease.
OVERVIEW If it seems like health care costs are increasing faster than prices for other goods and services, it’s because they are. In the U.S., for example, the average price a large employer health plan paid for a laparoscopic appendectomy increased 136 percent from 2003 to 2016. The cost of a full knee replacement climbed 74 …
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Reach and impact are at the core of PILOT — a program that gives promising biomedical sciences students opportunities to teach and do original research — and has earned a College of Medicine faculty member university recognition for his innovation.
Julie Brisset, an associate scientist in planetary sciences at UCF’s Florida Space Institute, was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from NASA to study levitating dust clouds in microgravity.
OVERVIEW Faced with increasing volatility, organizations may find organic growth harder to achieve – merging with or acquiring another company is one way to expand. This past year has seen little to no slowdown in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, which hit record levels in the first half of 2018. From companies evaluating inorganic growth …
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For many college graduates, finding a job within their field can seem just as daunting as earning a degree. But that task can be even more difficult for people with disabilities, considering last year’s unemployment rate for the group (9.2 percent) was more than twice the rate of those with no disabilities (4.2 percent), according …
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The University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, which opened Central Florida’s first wet lab incubator in May, has been honored with an Editor’s Choice Award by the University Economic Development Association, as part of the association’s 2018 Awards of Excellence program.
