News: Student Spotlight
UCF Announces 2025’s 30 Under 30 Alumni Award Recipients
UCF Alumni is proud to unveil the extraordinary honorees of the 2025 Class of 30 Under 30. These visionary alumni, driven by unwavering dedication and an unrelenting pursuit of excellence,...
Graduation Spotlight: Ashlei McGhee, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Meet Ashlei McGhee. Despite doctors bestowing grim expectations on her chances of communicating or attending college due to medical complications at birth, Ashlei stands as a testament that we are...
Graduating UCF Student Founded Business to Help Others Obtain Disability Benefits
By combining personal inspiration with technology, the health sciences major has created a startup business that expedites the Social Security Disability benefits application and approval process.
Graduation Spotlight: Hannalee Frahm, Kinesiology
Meet Hannalee Frahm. Growing up as an avid gymnast and starting her coaching career at age 14, Hannalee learned early on that movement can be the best medicine. However, due...
Graduation Spotlight: Fabiola Castro, Kinesiology
Meet Fabiola Castro. After moving to the U.S. at a young age, Fabiola found refuge in sports and athletics, igniting her passion for fitness and understanding how the body works....
Graduation Spotlight: Dianne Bennett, Social Work
Meet Dianne Bennett, an experienced educator and social worker. She earned her bachelor’s in psychology and her master’s in guidance and counseling from Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York and...
Student Spotlight: Keidy Bello, Health Sciences
For Health Sciences major, Keidy Bello, jumping at opportunities and using your resources is a mantra she follows and recommends as a way to learn, grow, and derive motivation and...
Student Spotlight: James “Colt” Crossley, Health Sciences
Not everyone starts college right out of high school. That was true for James “Colt” Crossley. Now a senior in the Health Sciences Pre-Clinical track, Colt spent his initial post-high...
Student Spotlight: Ricardo Atencio, Health Sciences
Ricardo Atencio’s journey to UCF and his dream of studying to become a physician has truly been an international affair. “I’m originally from Venezuela, but when I was given the...
Student Spotlight: Angel Bradley, Health Sciences
Serving as an Orientation Leader for First Time in College orientation sessions; co-founding and serving as a former Vice President of First Generation Medicine – a UCF registered student organization...
