Category Archives: Faculty & Staff News

Congratulations to the following College of Nursing faculty members who were honored by UCF with 2022 research and teaching incentive awards. Research Incentive Award The UCF Research Incentive Award program recognizes outstanding research, scholarly, or creative activity that advances the body of knowledge in a particular field, including interdisciplinary research and collaborations. Recipients are honored […]

For the first time since the pandemic, the clinic has returned to in-person services at full capacity. Students from various health-related programs are once again teaming up to provide health screenings and resources to a population of underserved farmworkers in Apopka, Florida. By working together, students learn what it means to put the patient at […]

The professor was honored by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. It is the third time in three years a UCF nursing faculty member has been recognized. Professor and Healthcare Simulation Program Director Mindi Anderson has been recognized by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) with a 2022 Outstanding Scholar Award. Anderson […]

Outstanding College of Nursing faculty members and an undergraduate student are among the honorees at this year’s event. Today UCF recognizes outstanding faculty, staff and students at the Founders’ Day Honors Convocation. Held annually since 1990, the event celebrates outstanding teaching, advising, mentoring, research, service and academic achievements. Congratulations the College of Nursing faculty members […]

UCF Associate Professor of Nursing Jascinth Lindo focuses on research-driven best practices to help improve public health. “Through research, nurses promote or advance evidence-based practice, build knowledge to enhance quality of care and patient safety, and create mentors for future generations of nurse scientists,” she says. Read More

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 […]

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 […]

The new honorees brings UCF’s total Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellows to 17. Pegasus Professor and Endowed Chair Greg Welch is one of two UCF professors honored as a 2022 Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a prestigious national distinction. Their fellowships bring the total number of IEEE fellows […]

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 […]