June 16, 2020
When SpaceX took off from Cape Canaveral, it might well have carried a bumper sticker reading: IF YOU ARE ON BOARD THIS, THANK A UCF GRADUATE. For half a century, the University of Central Florida has been working to send men and women into space, and space explorations to distant planets. Today, UCF is known […]
June 8, 2020
When Monica Davila’s family vacationed in Central Florida from Puerto Rico, the Kennedy Space Center was a destination they always had to visit. What Davila didn’t know was that she would one day intern at NASA, and earn a degree in mechanical engineering from a university in close proximity to the space coast — UCF. […]
May 15, 2020
UCF engineering Assistant Professor Kawai Kwok studies the way insects fly and land on plants to inspire his understanding of deployable structures, which could one day help NASA more easily explore the solar system. Deployable structures are those that can change their shape on command. Think of an umbrella, which uses mechanisms to change shape […]
May 13, 2020
A team of University of Central Florida researchers is looking at changing people’s saliva to help manage the spread of COVID-19 as the nation gets ready to go back to work and school. The team is doing this through a recently awarded National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research Award for $200,000 to explore reducing COVID-19 […]
May 11, 2020
As a young boy growing up on the Space Coast, Zac Stein watched in awe as the space shuttles and rockets launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. He would marvel at airplanes as they flew overhead—how could something so large and so heavy fly gracefully through the sky? It’s no wonder that Stein’s curiosity led […]