University of Central Florida

Recently, Orlando Business Journal celebrated its 2024 40 Under 40 honorees, which include 13 Knights Meet the alumni, students and staff who are making an impact in their industries and across The City Beautiful. Zac Alfson Senior…

The space economy is taking off, and UCF has joined an initiative powered by industry and academic leaders to propel innovators and businesses into new realms of opportunity. The Space-Edge Accelerator is an educational collaboration…

Monotype, one of the most recognized names in the world of fonts and typography, has teamed up with The Readability Consortium (TRC), a group of engineering, psychophysics, and design researchers focused on discovering what makes text…

In the spring of 2024, NASA’s Lunar-VISE, or Lunar Vulkan Imaging Spectroscopy Explorer, mission passed through two critical milestones on its continued successful path to the Moon in 2027. Lunar-VISE is a NASA Payloads and Research…

Virtual reality pioneer Carolina Cruz-Neira, Agere Chair Professor at the UCF Department of Computer Science, has been inducted into the inaugural Augmented World Expo (AWE) XR Hall of Fame. With her induction, she joins an elite…

Peter Delfyett, a UCF distinguished professor, was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame for his groundbreaking inventions in optics and photonics. Delfyett, who also serves as the director of the Townes Laser Institute and is…

Michael Okaty ’96 ’97 has been elected vice chair of UCF’s Board of Trustees after a vote by his colleagues at the May 17 board meeting. Okaty is a business lawyer and managing partner of Foley & Lardner LLP’s Orlando office who…

Su-I Hou has traveled all over the world to share her research on public health and aging in community. Her next opportunity is about to take her to Northern Europe. Hou, a professor of global health management and informatics in the…

They started medical school during a worldwide pandemic, when ICUs were full and a vaccine undiscovered. They met during Zoom classes from their off-campus homes. Despite the risks, they chose not to cancel in-person anatomy labs and did…

The primitive asteroids that UCF physics doctoral student Brittany Harvison studies carry with them traces of their origins and billions of years of our solar system’s history. Harvison recently pored through a library of infrared…