2021 Women’s History Month Honorees
Each March, Faculty Excellence honors 31 women for their impact on students and UCF’s campus community. This year, as we continue to charge on during a pandemic, our women faculty …
UCF Researcher Aims to Preserve Astronauts’ Muscle Function in Space
BY MEGAN PABIAN Twenty years ago, landing people on Mars seemed like sci-fi, but with commercial spacecraft launching into space almost every month and NASA’s Mars Perseverance landing on the …
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FSI Project Among Twenty-eight Projects Selected at University of Central Florida to Receive Funding for Research
PI Dr. Noemi Pinilla-Alonso, along with Co-Is Dr. Charles Schambeau, Dr. Mário De Prá, and astronomy doctoral student Ana Carolina de Souza Feliciano, were awarded funding for their research project …
UCF Satellite Launches Successfully into Space from Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne Rocket
The satellite’s mission is to capture video of small particles colliding in microgravity, which will help scientists understand the earliest stages of planet formation. BY ROBERT WELLS | JANUARY 19, 2021 University …
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Arecibo Observatory Helps Researchers Find Possible ‘First Hints’ of Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
Although the researchers used Arecibo Observatory data, they are no longer able to make observations using the observatory since it collapsed in December following broken cables in August and November. …
FSI Researcher Appointed to Icarus’ Editorial Board
Dr. Julie Brisset has been selected as one of Icarus’ newest Editorial Board member (Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society). Dr. Brisset works on dust behavior under …
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A Centaur in Transition
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Three UCF Researchers Part of Nature Astronomy Articles Chronicling Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy
The papers provide an inventory of some of the greatest discoveries of the past decade and suggest targets for the next generation telescope, scheduled to launch in 2021. BY ZENAIDA …
UCF Researcher Awarded NASA Grant to Study Little Understood trans-Neptunian Objects
Estela Fernández-Valenzuela, a preeminent post doctoral researcher at the Florida Space Institute wins a highly competitive NASA grant. BY ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA | SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 Florida Space Institute Planetary Scientist …
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Arecibo Observatory Returns from Tropical Storm Isaias Lockdown to Track Asteroid for NASA
The National Science Foundation facility, managed by the University of Central Florida, determines that a newly discovered asteroid won’t threaten Earth. BY ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA | AUGUST 6, 2020 The Earth has …