News: Health Sciences

Academic advisor Jennifer Farran is one of four winners of the 2017 Outstanding New Advisor Award Winner from NACADA, the Global Community for Academic Advising. The award recognizes outstanding academic...

The UCF community remembered Kailyn Jones today at the Eternal Knights Memorial Service in the Student Union. A scholarship was set up in memory of Kailyn Jones, a health sciences pre-clinical student at...

Michael Rovito’s tireless efforts on behalf of men’s health earned him national honors last week at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Denver. The assistant professor of health sciences received the inaugural award for Excellence...

Congratulations to health sciences pre-clinical advisor Jennifer Farran on her selection to receive the university’s Dr. Judith Sindlinger Outstanding New Advisor Award for 2016. UCF’s Academic Advising Council selected Farran as the recipient based on...

Christal Peterson was an All-American sprinter and conference champion for the UCF track and field team before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in health sciences (pre-clinical) in Summer 2015. She also...

Recent graduate Aaron Pollock excelled as an honors student in the Health Sciences Pre-Clinical Program in the College of Health and Public Affairs and the Burnett Honors College. “Aaron was an...

Michael Rovito, assistant professor of health professions, is the contrarian in today’s @statnews article, “A contrarian push to get men to check their testicles for lumps.” Learn how this men’s...

Michael Rovito, assistant professor of health professions, was among the health care, public policy, business and nonprofit professionals who participated in the White House Dialogue on Men’s Health Jan. 8. Rovito was invited to...

Ryan Garwood, a junior health sciences pre-clinical major, has received a $3,000 scholarship from the Cape Canaveral Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America, reports the Central Florida Future. Garwood is the...

UCF registered nearly 100 new student organizations this academic year, and perhaps the fastest growing was the Health Awareness and Prevention Society, or H.A.P.S. H.A.P.S. began last fall with 30...