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UCF Researcher Identifies Models For Healthy Aging

As the population ages, communities must adopt more creative ways to help older adults stay mentally and physical healthy and engaged, especially in light of the social isolation caused by COVID-19, according to a UCF population health researcher...

6 Knights Heading to Tokyo’s Summer Olympics, Paralympics

Educational Leadership

From beach volleyball to weightlifting, meet the Olympic participants who will represent UCF in addition to their home countries...

Building Resilient Cities: UCF Public Administration Faculty Member Awarded Fulbright

Public Administration

Naim Kapucu will travel to Australia to teach and conduct research on urban resilience to disasters...

Knights at Work Downtown: Legal Studies Students Share Insights from Internships

Legal Studies

UCF Downtown had the opportunity to speak to three students that were able to gain internships even throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and are now putting the skills they learned both as students and interns to work...

Charter Faculty Member Harry O. Hall Recognized University’s Potential

Teacher Education

The veteran educator — who recently died at 92 — began designing College of Education programs a year before classes started in 1968...

UCF PedsAcademy: Reading Aloud to Therapy Dogs Helps Patients, Young Readers Build Confidence

Teacher Education

UCF PedsAcademy, a pediatric school program, has partnered with READing Paws to inspire a love of reading in patients at Nemours Children’s Hospital...

UCF Begins 4 New Fully Online Programs

Teacher Education

UCF Online has launched its four newest fully online programs that will be offered beginning this fall — three in the College of Community Innovation and Education and one in the College of Optics and Photonics...

From Army Veteran to UCF Graduate

Legal Studies

The hardest thing Shannon Waiters faced in the classroom wasn't the content: It was the transition from being an Army veteran to a student...

Tend to Your Relationship: 6 Tips to Reduce Stress

Counselor Education

UCF relationship experts from the Marriage and Family Research Institute offer advice for lowering stress and nurturing your relationship...

Getting to the Place Where Body Size Doesn’t Matter

Counselor Education

Society’s fascination with weight is a type of discrimination and prejudice...

UCF Professor Helps Increase Access to College in Florida for Students with Intellectual Disabilities

Teacher Education

Professor Janice Seabrooks-Blackmore and her team work with postsecondary institutions across the state to develop accessible and inclusive programs for students with intellectual disabilities...

UCF Health Administration Graduate Students Accepted into Competitive Fellowships

Health Management & Informatics

Administrative fellowships are considered the nonclinical equivalent of residency for the healthcare field, and they're extremely hard to secure - but not for UCF health administration students...

UCF Department of Health Management and Informatics Expands to School

Health Management & Informatics

The new designation enables the School of Global Health Management and Informatics to expand their global reach and research...

Honoring Our Educators during Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Education

Malcolm Butler, director of the School of Teacher Education, reflects on the triumphs and struggles of being a teacher, especially during a pandemic...

1st Cohort from UCF Opioid Workforce Expansion Program Graduates

Counselor Education

Eight clinical mental health counseling graduate students spent two semesters learning how to treat clients with opioid and substance-use addiction...

Here’s What I Learned After 30+ Years of Teaching

Teacher Education

Colleen Thrailkill ’99EdD shares wisdom from her new book, The Value of Rotting Pumpkins: The Art of Teaching Elementary School, and how we can better appreciate our teachers today...

Faculty Members Honored with UCF Incentive Awards

College

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the 2021 UCF Teaching Incentive Program and Research Incentive Award...

“I am Graduating Especially for the Working Mothers Who Think They Can’t.”

Public Administration

A master’s student reflects on her second try at graduate school while enduring challenges with motherhood, losing loved ones, COVID-19 and work before completing her degrees...