Friday, March 30, 2018

  • Biggest Winner

    Recreation and Wellness Center

    The Biggest Winner challenge is a 12-week program (with a one week try out) designed to help students improve exercise and nutrition habits in order to improve total wellness, along with reducing the risk of chronic disease. Students will receive assistance and guidance from certified trainers to help implement healthy behavioral changes that will increase their quality of life. Benefits …

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  • The UCF Art Gallery Presents: The 2018 Annual MFA Exhibition

    UCF Art Gallery

    The 2018 Annual MFA Exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing the thesis work of Master of Fine Arts candidates. The work includes Forrest DeBlois’ paintings and drawings of Florida’s environment and animal inhabitants; Mark Gerstein’s haunting mosaics of video, photo collage, and sculpture; Ryan Michael Gleason’s melancholic hallway and a room within a room of enigmatic domestic images; Diane Parks’ …

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  • Dr. Jenna Jambeck: Plastic Waste Inputs from Land into the Ocean

    Classroom Building 1: Room 113

    Dr. Jambeck, an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia, has been internationally recognized for her research on solid waste issues and marine debris. Having earned numerous awards for both her teaching prowess and her research, Dr. Jambeck is an active proponent of women in STEM disciplines. She even co-developed a Marine Debris Tracker app …

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  • Is alpha-synuclein a prion-like protein in Parkinson’s Disease?

    UCF Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences (Lake Nona): 103

    Speaker: Patrik Brundin, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Science, VARI Associate Director of Research, and Jay Van Andel Endowed Chair in Parkinson’s Disease, Van Andel Research Institute The seminar will be held at BBS 103 (Lake Nona) and simulcast to HPA2 Room 345. Faculty Host: Dr. Yoon-Seong KimBelow are links to Dr. Brundin’s laboratory overview:https://patrikbrundinlab.vai.org/overview/And …

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  • Info Session: Clinton Global Initiative University (Recurring Event)

    LEAD Lounge: Ferrell Commons 7E Ste 165

    Are you interested in social change? Do you see a need in your community that needs to be addressed? Maybe you could be the one to solve it! Each year, the Clinton Global Initiative University (or CGI U) hosts a meeting where students, university representatives, topic experts, and celebrities come together to discuss and develop innovative solutions to pressing global …

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  • Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    John C. Hitt Library: 223

    In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, join the UCF Library at a free screening of "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria." EMMY Award-winning Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished …

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  • Seminar Series Human Factors and Cognitive Psychology (Recurring Event)

    PSY 301Q: 301Q

    Increased Working Memory Capacity in 3D Displays Dawn Sarno Abstract: The extent to which depth information engenders benefits to attentional processing is inconsistent across a variety of tasks (e.g., visual search, multiple-object tracking, working memory). One factor that may underlie disparate findings regarding depth is working memory load. However, no previous research has explored how working memory load may determine …

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  • UCF Womens Tennis vs. FIU

    USTA National Campus: Collegiate Center

    Come on out to support your Knights! Find the full schedule here: http://ucfknights.com/schedule.aspx?path=wten

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  • Bernarda Alba (Recurring Event)

    Theatre

    Bernarda Alba tells the tale of a powerful matriarch, who imposes a strict rule on her household following her second husband's funeral: "Not a breath of outside air is going to enter this house. It's going to feel like we've bricked up the doors and windows," she proclaims. Bernarda's five daughters, however, struggle with her cold wishes. The girls' dreams …

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