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We’ve Got Spirit — With a Splash!
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Who is… Tom Kunzen?
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NEW Android App
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UCF Student Turns Cell Phone Into Mobile Microscope
April 4, 2011
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Archive for the ‘Around the Pond’ Category
Car Engine to Power Campus
By early 2012, a giant Mitsubishi engine measuring 30 feet long by 10 feet wide will supply UCF’s main campus with one-third of its energy from a natural gas line. Just like a car, power is generated when the engine burns the ... More »
H.O.P.E. for Haiti
One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, there’s still much to be done. Task Force H.O.P.E. continues to support long-term recovery efforts by connecting people who want to help with humanitarian and research projects at UCF. Last fall, UCF departments ... More »
Live From Africa
Two UCF professors broadcasted their classes from southern Africa, using innovative technology to connect students in the classroom with the arts and culture of the region. Professors Bruce Janz and Rosalyn Howard, who research humanities and anthropology, taught the remainder ... More »
The Oprah Effect
Working in the College of Medicine’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, researcher James Turkson has wowed many with his ground-breaking work fighting cancer — including Oprah Winfrey. Hailed as a hero by Oprah, Turkson and his wife were invited to ... More »
Reading to Set a Record
How many people read The Snowy Day on Oct. 7? Enough to set a world record for the most people reading the same book on the same day — 2,057,513 — and UCF students played a part in it. Seventy three- and four-year-olds from ... More »
Man vs. Monster Eel
Monster electric eels more than six feet long were the stars of a November episode of Dangerous Encounters, a documentary series on the National Geographic Channel. UCF biologist Will Crampton, an internationally recognized expert in electric eels and other electric ... More »
Jazzin’ It Up
The first professional CD by the UCF Jazz ensemble was nationally ranked on the JazzWeek album radio chart after its first week of play. By early December, Jazz Town, recorded in the spring and released in November, had set toes ... More »
Helping the Space Industry
UCF will offer two new programs to retain residents who lose their jobs as the space shuttle program ends, thanks in part to grants from the Florida Board of Governors of the State University System. UCF received five grants worth ... More »
UCF Provides One of the Nation’s Best Values In Education
The university ranked 33rd according to a Kiplinger report published in January, three spots higher than it did in 2010 on the magazine's 100-school list of best-value public colleges and universities. The Princeton Review agreed, listing UCF as one of its ... More »
Diamond Planet?
A peculiar gas-giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 1,200 light-years away is the first carbon-rich world ever observed, and the implications are big for planetary chemistry. “On most planets, oxygen is abundant. It makes rocks such as quartz and gasses such ... More »
