UCF Scientist Leads Research to Break Through Harmful Bacterial 鈥淔ortresses鈥 Continuing聽her work聽with聽antibiotic-resistant聽bacteria, Renee Fleeman聽is聽understanding聽how聽a聽bioengineered聽peptide can聽curb severe infections for patients.
Student Research Expands Medical Education in Virtual Reality Spaces As part of UCF鈥檚 Fall Senior Design Showcase, undergraduate students combined their computer science knowledge with College of Medicine faculty mentorship to develop innovative virtual aids for learning about the heart and understanding medical imaging.
UCF Health Sciences Researcher Embraces Florida as Her Living Lab Curiosity led Qianxia Jiang from Asia to America and eventually to UCF, where she believes her research around the environmental influences on healthy lifestyles can 鈥 and will 鈥 lead to meaningful change.
UCF Limbitless Solutions Students Win Awards at SBEC Biomedical Engineering Conference Two health sciences students received first and third place at the Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference for presentations including newly published research for the hands-free wheelchair clinical trials with Mayo Clinic.
Team Presents EMG Video Games Controllers and Prosthesis Users Study During Student Research Week An interdisciplinary team of students will showcase what they鈥檝e learned working with children and prosthetics while interning at Limbitless Solutions.
School Day Structure Could Benefit Children鈥檚 Health Researchers found that children鈥檚 obesogenic behaviors on school days are more favorable compared to non-school days.
UCF Students Lead Session at Sunshine State Scholars Event Event aims to recognize Florida鈥檚 brightest STEAM students and encourage them to attend college in Florida.
Graduating Senior Escaped a Civil War in Syria to Become a Scholar at UCF When Suzanne Chaar immigrated to the U.S., she did not speak a word of English and had little familiarity with American culture. Now, she is graduating from UCF with aspirations towards a career in medicine.
UCF Grad Works at Johns Hopkins Hospital to Prevent and Control COVID-19 Spread After studying health sciences at UCF, Frankie Catalfumo 鈥13 is using his expertise as an infection control epidemiologist to keep patients and hospital staff safe at the Baltimore hospital.
Health Services to Host Career Day This became apparent to Health Services with the almost daily requests from students to shadow a healthcare provider. When the requests started to mount, Health…