Med Student Awarded Prestigious AMA Scholarship
07/16/2021Xamil Vega’s love of radiology began after his first anatomy class as a first-year med student at UCF when he became intrigued with the human...
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UCF’s Academic Health Sciences Center Receives $300K Gift
07/13/2021The University of Central Florida’s Academic Health Sciences Center (AHSC) has received a gift of $300,000 from the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation to fund innovative...
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Burnett Student Receives Doctoral Fellowship For Minority Students
07/13/2021A young UCF scientist researching how pregnancy affects the immune system is the recipient of a highly competitive award designed to increasing the number of...
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Med Students Reveal Emotions, Challenges In Diary Of A Med Student
07/12/2021Medical students nationwide – including three from UCF – write about the trials and triumphs of training to be doctors during a pandemic in a...
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Dr. LaRochelle New Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
07/12/2021Dr. Jeff LaRochelle is the UCF College of Medicine’s new associate dean of academic affairs, selected after a nationwide search. Before being named as only...
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Med Student Receives National Award For Pandemic Efforts
07/09/2021A UCF medical student who used her bioengineering training to create makeshift ventilators for COVID-19 patients and help a free clinic transition to telehealth services...
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Dr. Coathup Awarded SEED Funding To Begin Space Travel Research
07/09/2021College of Medicine biomedical engineer Dr. Melanie Coathup is one of five UCF researchers to receive more than $450,000 in SEED funding thanks to a...
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Study Finds Breast Cancer Mortality Rates Still Higher for Black Women
07/02/2021While breast cancer mortality rates have declined over the last few decades, Black women are still twice as likely to die from breast cancer compared...
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HCA Opens New Simulation Center to Train Nurses
07/01/2021HCA Healthcare North Florida Division announced the opening of a $5.5 million state-of-the-art simulation training center in Central Florida designed to empower and support nurses...
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“You Can’t Give Up: You Were Meant To Be A Doctor”
06/24/2021Mays Alani was losing hope of ever becoming a practicing physician. She’d graduated from the Medical University of Bahrain, but as a foreign-trained M.D. had...
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Getting Ahead Of The Next Pandemic: UCF Researchers Named To National Think Tank
06/24/2021College of Medicine microbiologist Dr. Salvador Almagro-Moreno, along with Laurene Tetard from the Department of Physics/Nanoscience Technology Center and Xiaohu Xia from the Department of Chemistry...
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College of Medicine Researcher Using Genomic Surveillance to Curb COVID-19
06/23/2021Most are familiar with the field of genomics in relation to ancestry mapping — such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com — uncovering relatives and identifying genetic...
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