CHPS News

Health Sciences

Student Spotlight: Liana Santos, Health Sciences

Written By: Gail Kauwell | December 6, 2024
Health Sciences major, Liana Santos, is the perfect “poster student” for highlighting the value of pursuing extracurricular experiences. Working as a hospital nursing assistant and...
Health Sciences

Student Spotlight: Brooke Martinez, Health Sciences

Written By: Gail Kauwell | December 6, 2024
Growing up in Texas, Brooke Martinez had never heard of the University of Central Florida. A random email from UCF and a subsequent campus visit...
Health Sciences

Student Spotlight: Bedis Elkamel, Health Sciences

Written By: Gail Kauwell | December 6, 2024
An eighth-grade health class assignment sparked Bedis Elkamel’s interest in pursuing a career in medicine. “When I came to UCF, I looked at several majors,...
Health Sciences

Alumni Spotlight: Andre Zibner, Health Sciences

Written By: Gail Kauwell | December 6, 2024
In this third year of study at the University of Florida’s College of Pharmacy, Andre Zibner, a UCF Health Sciences alumnus (’21), is passionate and...
Health Sciences

Student Spotlight: Emily Wagner, Health Sciences

Written By: Gail Kauwell | December 6, 2024
The youngest of five siblings, three of whom were adopted during the Romanian orphan crisis, Health Sciences major, Emily Wagner, is fast approaching her last...
Health Sciences

Student Spotlight: Savannah Adams, Health Sciences

Written By: Gail Kauwell | December 6, 2024
Savannah Adams, a Health Sciences major, is living proof that, as she says, “If it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger.” During her junior...
Health Sciences

Student Spotlight: Nardy Pena, Health Sciences

Written By: Gail Kauwell | December 6, 2024
Moving from Venezuela to the US by herself at the age of 21, Nardy Pena sometimes worked three jobs at a time to support herself...
Communication Sciences and Disorders

CSD Alumnus Brings Discussion on Fluency Disorders Across the Country

Written By: Lovelyn Findley | December 5, 2024
Randy Panzarino ’16 ’19 ‘21MA, originally from Melbourne Beach, Florida, graduated from UCF with a bachelor’s in psychology in 2016, a bachelor’s in communication sciences...
Kinesiology

Knight Life @UCFCHPS Spotlights Exercise and Sport Physiology Internship

Written By: Paul Kelly | November 25, 2024
Kinesiology student Connor Humphreys gained hands-on experience supporting individuals with neurological impairments, including spinal cord injury, stroke and Parkinson’s disease, during his internship at the...
Communication Sciences and Disorders

UCF Professor and Students Break Barriers in Health Literacy

Written By: Carly Siedman | November 25, 2024
The average English-speaking adult reads at a seventh to eighth grade reading level, Dr. Richard Zraick, UCF communication sciences and disorders professor, said. Zraick said...

Filter Options

  • By Category

Gift box icon

GIVE A GIFT

To help fund student scholarships, faculty excellence and innovative programming.
Support UCF