Provost’s Update: New Colleges, Schools Will Chart Bold Future For UCF
01/25/2018 As we like to say at UCF: If there’s a better way, we should do it. We know that successful 21st-century institutions must evolve...
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Addressing Health Disparities on a Global Scale
01/24/2018“People were dying left and right. I had never seen human misery on such a huge scale.” It was the height of the 1985 Ethiopian...
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Four For Four In Early Matches
01/22/2018Nicole Spitzer knows more than most how precious the gift of sight is. By her twelfth birthday, she had already had three eye surgeries to...
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Thank You, Dr. Payer
01/22/2018After ten years at UCF training future physicians on the intricacies of the human body, Dr. Andrew Payer anatomy professor at the College of Medicine...
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Future Engineers Get Hands-On Experience With Prosthetics
01/22/2018A group of future biomedical engineers got a close-up look into the world of prosthetics when they received a guest lecture from amputee and prosthetist,...
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One-time Flu Shot Research Featured Nationally
01/22/2018Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences researcher Dr. Kai McKinstry was featured on Fox News Orlando and its nationwide affiliates last week. He is working on developing a...
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AutoNation Cure Bowl Raises $3.3 Million For Breast Cancer Research
12/18/2017 Saturday’s third AutoNation Cure Bowl has brought a total of $3,305,000 to cancer research and of this amount, almost $1 million is supporting the...
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College of Medicine/HCA Consortium Announces New Transitional Year Residency Program
12/18/2017A new Transitional Year Residency Program, based at Ocala Regional Medical Center in Ocala, FL has received initial accreditation and is seeking immediate applicants. This...
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UCF Military Officers Match Into Residencies, Ready To Give Back
12/18/2017mili Michael Povlow has always had “inner calling” to serve his country and that’s why he joined the Army before going to medical school. And when...
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WATCH: Standardized Patient “SP Dave” Wins Healthier Community Award
12/18/2017 David Shaheen is a retired NASA finance manager who has volunteered as a “Standardized Patient”, an SP, since the charter class entered UCF’s medical...
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Hearing Patients’ Stories Is Key To Good Care
12/18/2017Listening to patients “is the single most powerful tool in medicine,” and will never outweigh high-tech innovations, a national patient care advocate told medical students...
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“Doctor Mommy” Earns Ph.D., Stays At UCF To Continue Finding Cancer Cure
12/16/2017 Ana Carr’s passion is helping people with cancer. She lost her grandfather to the disease, volunteered at a pediatric oncology hospital in her native...
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