UCF will offer a new bachelor’s degree this fall in materials science and engineering to help graduates find jobs in fields as wide ranging as space, defense, electronics, energy and biomedicine. Materials, obviously, are at the core of all things…

Lockheed Martin and the University of Central Florida celebrated the grand opening of a new Cyber Innovation Lab on UCF’s campus that will help meet the growing local and national need for cybersecurity talent. The lab’s opening was celebrated with…

As new commercial space ventures develop in Florida and around the nation, UCF’s new doctorate in aerospace engineering to begin this fall harkens back to one of the university’s original missions: provide support to the U.S. space program. The College…

Thomas Wahl, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, is helping the United Nations better understand and communicate climate change to the world. Wahl, who is based in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering…

For a second consecutive year, a University of Central Florida student has been recognized as one of the top 20 young leaders to watch in the field of aerospace. Aviation Week, in collaboration with the American Institute of Aeronautics and…

University of Central Florida researchers have beat nearly 50 other teams in a national traffic-safety improvement competition and now find themselves the only university team among the five finalists that include industry giants Ford and Uber. Their entry, Real-Time Crash…

Controlling diabetes is often a daily chore for patients with the disease, but researchers at the University of Central Florida are working to make one type of treatment more manageable. They recently received a nearly $400,000 grant from JDRF, formerly…

Doctors may soon have help in the fight against cancer thanks to UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision, where a team has created an artificial intelligence system that can detect trace amounts of lung cancer with 95 percent accuracy….

A team of University of Central Florida researchers is tackling a problem that’s hindered the development of better hurricane-prediction models and cyber defense systems for years. Sumit Jha, an associate professor in UCF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, was…

Two UCF engineering alumni are in the process of developing a self-heating blanket that will protect newborn infants from hypothermia in low- and middle-income regions, increasing their chances of survival. Ajay Karakoti, Ph.D., ’10 and Satyanarayana Kuchibhatla, Ph.D., ’08 received…

A couple of computer scientists are getting ready to take the DNA testing technique that made Ancestry.com family trees possible to a whole new level, which may give doctors a powerful new tool against hereditary diseases such as breast cancer,…