UCF to Partner with Lithuanian University for Dual Degree
UCF is partnering with Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania to offer dual bachelor’s degrees in nonprofit management from UCF’s School of Public Administration and public administration from KTU in four years. The transdisciplinary, global reach of the program will impact students at both universities, as well as the communities they serve...
Legal Research Provides Practical Guide for Airports to Navigate Rise in Civilian-Operated Drones
Hobbyist and commercial drone sales are projected to rise from 2.5 million in 2016 to 7 million in 2020, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. This increase raises a number of legal issues in areas of safety, security and privacy. Timothy Ravich, assistant professor of legal studies at UCF, recently...
Student Spotlight: Marellys Moreno
Planning is an interdisciplinary field of study that focuses not only on urban and regional development efforts but also on current and potential impacts of development decisions on surrounding communities. In her position as a program associate for the Lake County Housing and Community Development Division, Marellys Moreno studies the...
Criminal Justice, Psychology Undergrad Researches Suicide Risk in Jails
Inmates in the nation’s jails commit three times more suicides than in prisons. Undergraduate Megan Small researched what might cause this dramatic difference and found results that could influence the way we think about jail suicide and suicide risk...
Health Management and Informatics Students Recognized at National Conference
Five UCF Health Management and Informatics students were recognized at the annual American Health Information Management Association's national conference in Miami...
UCF Center Celebrates 10 Years of Service to the Community
In 2008, the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management was established as the research extension of the UCF School of Public Administration. Now, in 2018, the center is celebrating 10 years of policy-changing research, 10 years of working with local nonprofit agencies and 10 years of providing support to the...
School of Public Administration Honors Dr. Mary Ann Feldheim
Many would describe Feldheim as a trailblazer. That can be seen through her accomplishments at the School of Public Administration and UCF at large, including becoming the first woman in the school to obtain tenure. In 2005, Feldheim became the chair of the Department of Public Administration. Under her strategic...
First Fully-Online HMI Graduate Student to Work on NSF Project
Adrian Andrews is the first fully-online UCF student pursuing a graduate degree in health management and informatics to work on a National Science Foundation-funded project...
Students pursuing their master’s degree in urban and regional planning in the School of Public Administration have an additional opportunity to apply for financial support. The Orlando Metro Section of the American Planning Association (APA) established the Judith Mucci Endowed Scholarship Fund at UCF. “The Judith Mucci Scholarship Fund will...
UCF Awarded Grant From Health Foundation
The Health Foundation of South Florida has awarded UCF $57,884 for its Strategies for Person-Centered Care in Behavioral Health Treatment Programs project. Dr. Andraka-Christou and her research team (Drs. Atkins, Gabriel, and Cortelyou-Ward) will use the funding to explore methods for operationalizing person-centered care in substance use disorder and mental...
American Society of Criminology Division of Policing Honors Professor
Congratulations to our college's Gene Paoline, professor of criminal justice, on his Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology Division of Policing. He is also the incoming chair of the division and Jacinta Gau, associate professor criminal justice, will serve as co-chair...
Nemours, UCF Transform Education for Hospitalized Children
Patients can use virtual reality, robotics and other high-tech learning tools to keep up with their studies...
It’s Time to Push for Schools to be Places of True Excitement for Our Kids
In this era of classrooms saturated with testing, we are missing the overall end of education: What do we want our students to be like as a result of their school experiences?...
22 Faculty Inducted into UCF’s Scroll & Quill Society
This year's group features experts in a variety of topics, ranging from human-computer interaction to youth theatre to fairness in the workplace...
UCF Graduate and Postdoctoral Scholar Awarded STEM Fellowship
Matthew Taylor, a UCF postdoctoral scholar in STEM education, was selected for one of ten highly-competitive annual CADRE fellowships. Recipients receive a one-year fellowship to work with the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), a resource network for STEM education researchers supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF)...
UCF’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning Receives Accreditation
The School of Public Administration celebrates the accreditation of the Master of Urban and Regional Planning (M.S.URP) program by the Planning Accreditation Board. This accreditation is awarded to professional programs that are found to exemplify excellence in performance, quality and integrity...
College Silent Auction to Raise Funds for American Heart Association
CCIE Heartbeats is sponsoring a silent auction on Wednesday, October 31 in the Teaching Academy’s first-floor lobby. The auction will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 100 percent of the proceeds will go to our partners at the American Heart Association...
Changing Health Habits in China
Changing habits, especially when it to comes to accessing health care, is a challenge. China is embarking on this road as it attempts to make health care more accessible to rural populations...
Addiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Market For Suboxone
Months in prison didn't rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids. "Before I left the parking lot of the prison, I was shooting up, getting high," he says...
Tales from UCF’s Very First Day of Classes
Oct. 7 marks the 50th anniversary of the first day of classes, and Linda (Singer) Black ’71 was one of 1,948 students there to experience it...
