Faculty

A new professor has been named and two others reappointed to prestigious UCF trustee chair professorships that recognize faculty with national and international reputations for excellence and with extraordinary accomplishments in teaching, research and service. New trustee chair Ayman Abouraddy and reappointees Aristide Dogariu and Jayanta Kapat are among a handful of faculty members to […]

In the BRaIN Lab at UCF, researchers are working to understand how the brain and body work together to control how humans move their bodies. Called the Biomechanics, Rehabilitation, and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (BRaIN) Lab, students and faculty use electroencephalography (EEG) technology to measure the electrical activity of the brain during movement. But something even more is […]

When Dr. William DeCampli, a professor of surgery at the UCF College of Medicine, asked his surgical research fellow to find someone at UCF who could work with them on solving biomedical engineering problems related to congenital heart disease, he suggested Pegasus Professor Alain Kassab. The result, DeCampli says, is the most productive research partnership […]

Professor Subith Vasu has been named a recipient of the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award, sponsored by the Department of Defense. This is the third consecutive year that he has received funding through this award. The DURIP program provides a financial award to university researchers who can use the money to purchase high-tech […]

A University of Central Florida researcher has received NASA funding to create aerospace engineering opportunities for high schoolers from underserved and underrepresented communities to encourage them to think about space. “Novel Experience Geared to NASA Engineering Design Challenges,” or NEXTGEN-EDC, seeks to ignite local high school students’ interest in STEM through engineering projects, professional development […]