News: Health Sciences
Health Sciences Professor Receives Minority-Serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award
Eunkyung “Muriel” Lee, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences, is a recipient of the 2022 American Association for Cancer Research AACR Minority and Minority-Serving Institution Faculty Scholar...
UCF Recognized by Exercise is Medicine for Efforts to Create Culture of Wellness on Campus
The University of Central Florida is one of only 156 universities and colleges around the world to be honored by Exercise is Medicine (EIM) for its efforts to create a culture of...
Meet the 4 Order of Pegasus Students from Health Sciences
Four students from the health sciences program have been named to the Class of 2022 Order of Pegasus. This award is the highest honor that a UCF Knight can achieve,...
Celebrating Founders’ Day Honorees in CHPS
Congratulations to the faculty and students in the College of Health Professions and Sciences who were recognized at this year’s UCF Founders’ Day award ceremony on April 6. Excellence in...
2022 UCF Founders’ Day Honorees
The Founders’ Day Honors Convocation celebrates those who contribute to UCF’s growing quality and impact. UCF has never followed what other universities have done, and the future of the university...
UCF Research Program Tracking Autism Behaviors with Mixed Martial Arts
Studying the effects of how judo, a form of mixed martial arts, can change physical behaviors within autism children around the UCF community started with assistant professor Jeanette Garcia. The...
Let’s talk about sex: UCF professor hosts Sex Cafe Podcast
In a small recording room in UCF’s Research Park, laid out with an array of microphones and a sophisticated soundboard, professor Humberto López Castillo offers menus to his guest speakers....
Health Sciences Students Present 20 Posters at Student Scholar Symposium
Health Sciences students had a strong presence at the Student Scholar Symposium hosted as part of Research Week. Twenty poster presentations were presented by about 34 Health Sciences undergraduate students...
26 Exemplary Students Awarded 2022 Order of Pegasus
Awarded each spring, the Order of Pegasus is UCF’s most prestigious student honor. Twenty-six students — ranging in disciplines from engineering to biology to education and others across the institution...
Staff Spotlight – Robert Schiavo
Robert Schiavo is fairly new to the Department of Health Sciences and the College of Health Professions and Sciences, but he has been an asset to the growing success within...
