Category Archives: Academics

The Progresando Initiative empowers Hispanic/Latina/o/x adults to achieve economic and social mobility through high-impact careers. Para la versión en Español, oprima aquí. Bank of America has selected UCF as a preferred partner for a two-year $250,000 grant to support Hispanic/Latina/o/x students pursuing careers in healthcare through its Progresando Initiative. The initiative was created to help […]

Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death in adults over 65 in the U.S. and are just one of the national problems McKnight Doctoral Fellow and nursing doctoral student Eunice Oladepe Ojo ’21DNP is working to address. “As a young high school girl growing up in my native Nigeria, I always aspired to achieve […]

Health informatics expert Azizeh K. Sowan joins the college as the Department Chair of Nursing Practice and is among 10 new faculty members for Fall 2022. In addition to welcoming new cohorts of students who will help address the nursing shortage, UCF’s College of Nursing is welcoming a new department chair and new faculty members […]

Nearly 300 nursing students will graduate this week from UCF, answering the call for more nurses and nurse leaders. Meet the newest cohort of Knight nurses. The Summer Class of 2022 celebrated the completion of their nursing degree at the College of Nursing’s professional recognition ceremony last night and will walk across the stage at […]

The Burnett Honors College scholar and Florida native, who shines in her studies and on stage, was selected to sing the national anthem at a national convention. Last week, Kaitlyn Yu sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” in front of hundreds of fellow nursing students, faculty and leaders from across the country at the National Student Nurses’ […]

More than 30 UCF graduate programs have been recognized among the nation’s best, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2023 Best Graduate Schools Ranking. Among the programs climbing the rankings are the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs at the UCF College of Nursing, moving up more than 10 spots to No. 52. […]

The student leader, scholarship recipient and first-generation college student is among 26 exemplary students to receive the 2022 Order of Pegasus, UCF’s most prestigious student award. Excellence. Disciplined. Integrity. Dedicated. Compassionate. These are just some of values and qualities used to describe senior nursing student Erin Tonkin. Tonkin is among 26 UCF students who will […]

Suzanne Hyer ’19PhD received funding from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of social determinants of health on pregnancy weight gain and infant birth weight among Black women. Nursing PhD alumna Suzanne Hyer is passionate about health promotion – to positively influence people’s health knowledge and behavior. Now as the UCF College […]

From the prestigious Diamond Chapter Award to state board elections and scholarships, UCF nursing students have much to celebrate from the Florida Nursing Student Association annual convention. The Florida Nursing Student Association (FNSA) recently awarded the Student Nurses’ Association (SNA) at the University of Central Florida Orlando a 2022 Diamond Chapter Award – the highest […]

UCF Presidential Doctoral Fellow Aislinn Woody and a DNP student at the University of Virginia recently earned a national excellence award for their research project. “Taking opportunities to bear witness to the lives of people for whom the healthcare system is failing, and being able to help my fellow healthcare workers know better and do […]