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Social Work

Social Work Professor Recognized for Contributions to Social Work Education

Written By: Paul Kelly | March 23, 2026
Social Work professor Kim Anderson was honored with the Faculty Award from the Association of Baccalaureate Program Directors (BPD) during the organization’s annual conference in...
Kinesiology

Kinesiology PhD Student Selected as ACSM Student Trustee

Written By: Paul Kelly | March 23, 2026
Kworweinski Lafontant, a third-year kinesiology Ph.D. candidate, has been elected to serve as a student trustee on the Board of Trustees for the American College...
Communication Sciences and Disorders

How UCF Shaped Marisol Freytes’ ’22 ’25MS Journey

Written By: UCF Alumni | March 20, 2026
Marisol Freytes ’22 ’25MS has spent her life bridging worlds. Born to deaf parents, she learned American Sign Language before English, serving as a translator...
Social Work

Social Work Researcher Receives Federal Career Development Grant to Prevent Child Firearm Homicide

Written By: Heather Lovett | March 9, 2026
Assistant Professor Hsiu-Fen Lin in the School of Social Work has received a competitive three-year Mentored Research Scientist Development Award in the amount of $340,000...
Kinesiology

UCF Kinesiology PhD Student Developing Peak Performance Tests

Written By: Heather Lovett | February 27, 2026
For athletes, first responders, and military personnel, peak performance is not just about raw strength or speed, it also means the ability to think clearly...
Social Work

UCF School of Social Work Announces Shawn Lawrence as Director

Written By: Heather Lovett | February 20, 2026
The UCF School of Social Work has appointed Shawn Lawrence as its new director. Lawrence, a professor and licensed clinical social worker, has served as...
Kinesiology

What it takes to train like an Olympian

Written By: Lindsey Sablan | February 5, 2026
With the Winter Olympic Games around the corner, it’s hard not to watch in awe and wonder what it really takes to train at that...
Center for Autism and Related Disabilities

Virtual Reality Driving Lessons Help Young Adults with Autism

Written By: Paul Kelly | February 2, 2026
UCF’s Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD) is partnering with the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism to expand access to driver education for...
Health Sciences

The new face of HIV in Florida

Written By: Erin Jester | January 22, 2026
After four decades of hard-won progress toward curbing the HIV epidemic, the face of the disease is changing.
Communication Sciences and Disorders

Future Speech-Language Pathologists Test Skills in High-Tech “Escape Room” Exam

Written By: Grayson Keglovic | January 16, 2026
The final exam for Basic Phonetics in Fall 2025 was anything but basic, thanks to Lecturer Erin Leeming and the technology at the College of...

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