Please visit: https://scs.sdes.ucf.edu/nhhaw/ for a full schedule of events or see below
All Week: Project Pack the Pantry: week-long donation drive for Knight’s Pantry.
Tuesday 11/13
Cost of Poverty Experience (COPE) 1pm to 4pm, Live Oak AB
The Cost of Poverty Experience (COPE) is a simulation designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live as a typical low-income family in the U.S. It is based on real stories and created alongside those who have lived with these daily struggles.
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cost-of-poverty-experience-tickets-51269084211
Student Solidarity Sleep Out, 7pm-7am, Lake Claire Pavilion
This Student Sleep Out helps to gain awareness and funding to assist youth experiencing homelessness. This year, 4.2 million youth will be homeless in America. By joining the Student Sleep Out to support Covenant House, students and staff can raise lifesaving funds to give kids and young adults safe shelter and opportunity, and unite the community against youth homelessness.
To sign up as a sleep out participant, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnErNSNp6pQSVgcqvO9icgxjqYkAs6TxSzme7wGoCb4fgxaQ/viewform
To help us raise funds, visit: https://app.sleepoutamerica.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=7257
Wednesday 11/14
Human Library Experience Luncheon hosted by Graduate Student Association- 11am to 2pm, Key West, Room 218
Speakers will be seated at roundtables and the attendants will go from table to table to speak to them. In this case the speaker will not only be sharing their expertise and experience but they will also be hearing experiences from the attendants as well. Lunch will be served.
Fairwinds Budgeting Workshop: 3-4pm in the Neptune Multipurpose Room. 1000 Link Points!
Tuition, books, clothes, food, fun… college life can get expensive! If you struggle with how to set up a budget and then actually stick to it, or simply want some tips on how to be successful in this area, then this is the workshop for you! Join the FAIRWINDS staff as they provide tips and tricks on how to successfully budget for college and beyond.
Hunger Banquet (VUCF), 7pm-9pm, Morgridge International Reading Center
The Hunger Banquet is an interactive event that both creates awareness about the issues of hunger and homelessness and ways to help reduce the disadvantages associated with the inequalities of social classes. The event will provide participants a simulated experience of the realities of society. Attendees will be treated to guest speakers, the opportunity to talk to representatives from organizations who are leaders in the fight against hunger and free food.
Thursday 11/15
Community Services Showcase-Green space outside of Ferrell Commons 11-2pm. 500 Link Points!
Come visit us for a cooking demo, giveaways, and to learn about campus and community resources related to health, wellness, housing and more!
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Coaching walk-ins available on Thursday, November 15th 10:30-11:30am @ Wellness and Health Promotion Services
Couponing 101-2-3:30pm @ RWC 206
Learn the basics of couponing and save money on grocery items during our Couponing 101 Workshop. Discover how you can get name brand items for less or even free. You will receive coupons and a coupon organizer to get you started.
Movie Night: The Florida Project and Speaker Panel, 6pm to 9pm, Pegasus Ballroom. 1000 Link Points!
Join us for a speaker panel with community agency representatives who assist our central Florida homeless population. After the panel will be a screening of The Florida Project. This documentary brings Metro Orlando’s homeless reality to the big screen. Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee and her rebellious mother Halley over the course of a single summer. The two live week to week at “The Magic Castle,” a budget hotel managed by Bobby, whose stern exterior hides a deep reservoir of kindness and compassion.
Friday 11/16
Arboretum Volunteer Event 8:30am-10:30am, Arboretum Pavilion
Saturday 11/17 & Sunday 11/18
Volunteer UCF events, More info to follow
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Tickets are $28 per person or $270 for a table of 10. To secure tickets through UCF Global, please contact Jerry Santiago at Gerardo.Santiago@ucf.edu
]]>Vote for your favorite military branch! VOTE ONLINE, Nov 12-16 online (counts once), and/or vote on the bus when you donate blood (counts three times!).
Hosted by: UCF Blood Drives, Veterans Academic Resource Center (VARC), Student Veterans Association (SVA)
Past Winners
Knights Bleed Black & Gold!
Visit http://BloodDrives-UCF.org for blood drive schedules, volunteering, special events, Adopt-A-Blood-Drive, the UCF Blood Drives Advisory Council, internships, and more.
Blood Drives at UCF a group of students, faculty, and staff working together to save lives and foster a culture of blood donorship on campus. We'd love for you to join us!
Thank you for making a difference!
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter - /BloodDrivesUCF
]]>I recommend taking a pretest to see where the areas of deficiency lie so that we can focus on those during the session. (There are workbooks available to students in the CMC in the Education Complex Building).
]]>Stem Cell Derived Human-on-a-chip Systems for Use in Efficacy and Toxicological Investigations in Pre-clinical Drug Discovery
James J. Hickman, Ph.D.
NanoScience Technology Center
Department of Chemistry
Biomolecular Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Central Florida
Abstract: One of the primary limitations in drug discovery and toxicology research is the lack of good model systems between the single cell level and animal or human systems. This is especially true for neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer’s, and spinal cord injury. In addition, with the banning of animals for toxicology testing in many industries body-on-a-chip systems to replace animals with human mimics is essential for product development and safety testing. Our research focus is on the establishment of functional in vitro systems to address this deficit where we seek to create organs and subsystems to model motor control, muscle function, myelination and cognitive function, as well as cardiac subsystems. The idea is to integrate microsystems fabrication technology and surface modifications with protein and cellular components, for initiating and maintaining self-assembly and growth into biologically, mechanically and electronically interactive functional multi-component systems. Our advances in culturing adult rat, mouse and human mammalian spinal cord, hippocampal neurons, muscle and cardiac cells in a defined serum-free medium, suggest outstanding potential for answering questions related to maturation, aging, neurodegeneration and injury. We are using this ability to manipulate the biological systems and integrate it with silicon-based systems to create cell-based sensors for high content drug discovery. We are also using what we learn for a more fundamental understanding of cellular development, protein adsorption and neuronal regeneration. Examples will be given of some of the more advanced body-on-a-chip systems being developed as well as the results of five workshops held at NIH to explore what is needed for validation and qualification of these systems.
Biography: Dr. James J. Hickman is the Founding Director of the NanoScience Technology Center and a Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Chemistry, Biomolecular Science, Material Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Central Florida. Previously, he held the position of the Hunter Endowed Chair in the Bioengineering Department at Clemson University. Dr. Hickman has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Chemistry. For the past twenty-five years, he has been studying the interaction of biological species with modified surfaces, first in industry and in the latter years in academia. While in industry he established one of the first bioelectronics labs in the country that focused on cell-based sensors and their integration with electronic devices and MEMS devices. He is interested in creating hybrid systems for biosensor and biological computation applications and the creation of functional in vitro systems for human body-on-a-chip applications. He has worked at NSF and DARPA in the area of biological computation. He is also the founder and current Chief Scientist of a biotechnology company, Hesperos, that is focusing on cell-based systems for drug discovery and toxicity. He has 134 publications and 20 book chapters, in addition to 21 issued patents out of 44 total patent applications. He is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineers (AIMBE) (2004) and the American Vacuum Society (AVS) (2007). He was a Board Member for AIMBE from 2009-2013 and Co-Chaired 6 AIMBE/NIH Workshops on “Validation and Qualification of New In Vitro Tools and Models for The Pre-clinical Drug Discovery Process” held at the NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD (2012 – 2017). He was also a Charter Member, NIH Bioengineering of Neuroscience, Vision and Low Vision Technologies (BNVT) Study Section. Dr. Hickman along with Dr. Michael Shuler, won the Lush Prize, in the Science Category, which Supports Animal Free Testing in 2015.
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Please note that registration (RSVP) for this event is required due to the limited capacity of the room.
https://ucf.joinhandshake.com/events/181450/share_preview
Location: CSEL - Room #115 - Career Services Main Office (CSEL) Building #140
Career Services Main Office (CSEL) Building #140 4123 Pictor Ln Bldg 140, 1st and 2nd Floor Orlando, FL 32816
Calm Your Worry module.
This webinar will show you how to use this
module to help you learn how to ease your stress and anxiety
Webinar link: Http://bit.ly/TAOCalmYourWorry
Event Date: November 13th
Time: 11:30am
]]>There are opportunities to engage in research at other universities and research institutions (e.g., the National Institute of Health). Previous UCF undergraduates have spent the summer all around the country including Harvard, Yale, Ohio State, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania.
No RSVP required.
Questions? Feel free to contact the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR@ucf.edu)
]]>Cant make it in person? Join our virutal session here (http://ucf.adobeconnect.com/inter_edu_week_111318/)
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All sessions of this workshop are in room 201 of Trevor Colbourn Hall.
]]>To attend this webinar please RSVP at: https://guides.ucf.edu/rtt
]]>Course number: DIV053
Thursday, September 20 from 1:30pm-4:30pm
Facilitator: Rachel Luce-Hitt
Location: Barbara Ying Center, Room 140
Wednesday, September 26 from 4:00pm-6:00pm
Facilitator: Barbara Thompson
Location: UCF Valencia West, Building 11, Room 107
Monday, October 1 from 1:00pm-4:00pm
Facilitator: Barbara Thompson
Location: UCF Valencia Osceola, Building 4, Room 339
Tuesday, November 13 from 1:30pm-4:30pm
Facilitator: Rachel Luce-Hitt
Location: Barbara Ying Center, Room 140
This workshop identifies some common mistakes made when communicating about age, class, disabilities, ethnicity, gender, language, looks, race, religion, and sexual orientation. It also highlights words, phrases, and behaviors that can enhance the process of communicating about and across various dimensions of difference.
]]>Attendance will be taken at the workshop, free to all UCF students, no RSVP needed in advance.
Tuesday, November 13th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
]]>This informative session provides attendees with information on the various loan repayment options available.
]]>Students can register and attend virtually here: www.bit.ly/DWRwebinar.
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