Category Archives: College & Campus News

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 […]

UCF consistently rises in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, earning recognition among the best universities in the country. UCF’s high-quality online programs were recognized today by U.S. News & World Report, which ranked the university No. 7 in the country for Best Online Bachelor’s Programs. This is the first time UCF ranked in […]

The healthcare simulation education pioneer was one of only 10 international experts inducted into the Class of 2022 Fellows. The Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) has inducted Professor Mindi Anderson as a Fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Academy. Anderson is one of only 10 experts who were inducted in the Class […]

Two-time UCF alumna Sandra J. Galura ’12PhD, RN, has more than three decades of healthcare experience – including two decades in leadership roles in Central Florida. Today she leverages that experience in her research, which focuses on challenges faced by frontline and interim nurse managers, and her new role at the College of Nursing as […]

Graduates will help meet state and national demand for baccalaureate-educated nurses, nurse leaders and nursing faculty. Today, UCF awarded 239 nursing degrees and recognized the hard work and dedication of College of Nursing students who have achieved their educational dreams. There has never been a greater need for more Knight nurses to not only practice […]

Medilepsy, developed by McKnight Doctoral Fellow Michelle Tall ’17MSN, effectively helped adolescents with epilepsy and their caregivers self-manage the chronic disease in a study. Epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition, effects 3.4 million people in the U.S. and 50 million worldwide. For nursing PhD graduate Michelle Tall ’17MSN, it’s something she knows all too well as […]

Students and faculty across UCF are benefitting from 250 new mixed reality headsets that will be used for applications ranging from developing robotic sensors to designing interactive backgrounds for special events. The headsets are a gift from General Dynamics Mission Systems and are fully self-contained computers that allow wearers to operate untethered in a hologram-enhanced […]

The Pegasus Professor and Endowed Chair, who specializes in simulation and modeling, is UCF’s 17th NAI fellow — the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. Greg Welch is one of 164 national faculty members who have been named to the National Academy of Inventors and one of only 10 from Florida this year. Welch […]

AdventHealth Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation Greg Welch and Assistant Professor Gerd Bruder from UCF’s Institute for Simulation and Training won an Innovation Award at the 2021 TechConnect World Conference for a new way to magnify objects in augmented reality (AR). Bruder and Welch’s invention, which is awaiting a patent, resulted from research looking for ways […]

Some of the best ideas come when the mind can wander, process new knowledge, and connect dots that don’t obviously seem to belong together. For computer scientist and engineer Gregory Welch, the AdventHealth Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation in the UCF College of Nursing and Pegasus Professor, some of his biggest “aha” moments occur at […]