Importance of Getting a Flu Shot during COVID-19
09/11/2020With flu season on the horizon and COVID-19 still present in our society, it is critical to get your flu shot this year to help...
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News & Information Archive
UCF Researchers are Helping Develop Rapid, Longer Lasting COVID Disinfectant
09/09/2020Current disinfectant products for killing viruses like coronavirus take minutes to fully sanitize surfaces, which isn’t practical on high-contact areas such as door handles, elevators...
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Burnett School Gift Supports Ph.D. Scholarships and Graduate Programs
09/03/2020The Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences has received $125,000 from the Hollie and Anna Oakley Foundation to provide scholarships for its doctoral students and enhance...
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Answering The Call To Serve In A Pandemic
08/31/2020Patients lay intubated in hospital hallways, their respirator tubes and monitors running through holes punched into walls. Continuous lines of ambulances dropped off the sick...
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Burnett Welcomes Graduate Students With Virtual Orientation
08/18/2020Forty young scientists will join the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences as a new class of graduate students begins study next week. The group includes...
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Med Student Earns Scholarship for Community Service Efforts
08/12/2020As a young girl, Lisvet Luceno saw firsthand the importance of community service as her family depended on free clinics for their healthcare. Now a...
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Physician Staying In Osceola To Care For “The New Family I Love”
08/07/2020As a young physician, Mustafa Kinaan helped build UCF’s new residency and fellowship programs. After five years of training, he’s staying in Greater Orlando to...
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M.D. Admissions Go Virtual
08/03/2020Medical school interviews have gone virtual this year as the UCF College of Medicine supports public-health efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19. Rather than...
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Burnett School Graduates 100+ Scientists Amidst Pandemic
07/30/2020On Saturday, 121 young scientists will graduate from the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences in a virtual commencement due to COVID-19 physical distancing requirements. Those...
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As Med School Begins, “You Are Needed Now More Than Ever”
07/27/2020 Kyle Benkel traded his UCF football jersey for a white coat Monday — even though his new uniform, recognizing him as a physician-in-training, came...
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UCF Cancer-Fighting Technology Licensed To Pharmaceutical Giant
07/21/2020 One of the biggest pharma companies in the world will use a nanoparticle technology developed at the UCF College of Medicine in hopes of...
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UCF Health Welcomes Additional Endocrinologist
07/17/2020UCF Health recently welcomed Dr. Amita Kathuria to its physician team. Dr. Kathuria will provide specialty care in endocrinology to patients and also help train...
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