First Generation Graduate Grateful for UCF Opportunity
08/02/2018When Raquel Muñoz, a daughter of Colombian immigrants, crosses the stage to collect her bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences Saturday, she will honor her parent’s...
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News & Information Archive
Meet The Class of 2022
08/01/2018The College of Medicine’s M.D. program recently welcomed the Class of 2022, the tenth since the charter class enrolled in 2009. Students were selected from...
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Summer Academy Helps Underserved High Schoolers Prepare For Health Careers
07/27/2018Evon Thompson, 15, is intent on becoming a physician-scientist after watching a close relative battle breast cancer. “Seeing her go through that made me even...
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UCF Hospital Groundbreaking October 25
07/25/2018 Groundbreaking for UCF Lake Nona Medical Center, the university’s new hospital in Lake Nona’s Medical City, is October 25 and architects have just released...
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Innovation Grants Improve Nursing Student Learning
07/25/2018 Two College of Nursing research projects using simulation have received $10,000 Program Innovation Awards from UCF for the What’s Next, Quality Enhancement Plan....
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Helping Children with Communication Disorders Gain A Voice through Apps
07/25/2018 Researchers at UCF and the University of New Mexico have been awarded a $2.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to study how...
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Medical Teamwork Across Colleges And Continents
07/25/2018 A UCF interprofessional healthcare team of 51 students, faculty and volunteers provided primary care and surgeries for more than 500 patients in a remote...
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Meet The New CHPS Interim Dean
07/25/2018He’s raised two children who are international judo champions, helped NASCAR pit crews get stronger and faster, and has taught senior citizens how to get...
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WFTV Covers UCF Martial Arts Camp For Autistic Children
07/18/2018Kids with autism are often averse to touch. So a program in the UCF College of Health Professions and Sciences’ Division of Kinesiology – part...
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Med School Can See, Count Cancer Cells In Blood, Thanks To Patient’s Family
06/28/2018On a computer screen, the enemy is a misshapen neon-colored blob – a metastatic cell that’s spreading cancer to the lungs, brain and liver. Thanks...
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Cheers (Literally) For Residency Graduation
06/19/2018UCF’s second Orlando residency graduation was a celebration filled with cheers – Residents cheered their attending physicians, their class’ top graduates and even chanted “Chief,...
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