The one-day virtual conference will uncover little-known, big-potentential technology startups created by UCF students, faculty and alumni for potential investment.
For inspiration, keynote speaker Jason Eichenholz '95MS '98PhD will share his journey as a tech pioneer who made it big. He co-founded Luminar Technologies, an Orlando company specializing in driverless car technology that recently went public with a $1 billion venture and was recognized by Forbes in its inaugural Impact 20 list.
The symposium will include specialty tracks for entrepreneurs and investors to help expand their networks, improve startup pitches, uncover sources of capital, spark discoveries of new, licensable technologies and influence the commercial potential of new ideas.
This is a can't-miss event! Register here.
To learn more, see the UCF Technology Venture Symposium flyer.
]]>If you are looking to work with the DoD, or have existing DoD contracts, you don’t want to miss this great learning opportunity!
Presenters:
-Fernando Machado (Cybersecurity Expert)
-Jason Lagasca (Government Contracts Expert)
]]>Gabe Cortese’s paintings and drawings depict codification of queerness through figuration and symbolism.
Danielle Culibao-Powell creates paintings and collages to expand upon personal experiences of falling into, or between, multiple cultures at once.
Experimental filmmaker and installation artist Tim Reid provokes viewers with specific and universal insecurities, contradictions, and hypocrisy.
Embracing her passion as a former professional pastry chef, Annette Tojar creates paintings of food to explore her cultural identity and personal histories.
Learn more about the exhibition: https://gallery.cah.ucf.edu/exhibit/2021-annual-mfa-exhibition/
Exhibition Dates: February 17 - March 5, 2021
Our physical gallery space has reopened! Hours of operation are as follows:
Monday - Thursday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Virtual exhibition link coming soon!
Free parking is available in Garage F next to CFE Arena. $5 parking lot H-4 or Garage I requires purchasing a visitor permit from a kiosk. Please note that visitors should park in green student spaces ONLY, as the $5 daily permit does not cover red and blue spaces.
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Applications not required. If you’d like to join us but are unable to make the monthly meetings, enroll in our Webcourse.
All meetings will be conducted via Zoom.
For Zoom information, visit: https://facultyexcellence.ucf.edu/development/non-tenure-earning-communities/
]]>All you need to bring to the lab is your resume, cover letter or online profile ready to pull up, and positive energy! This session is not available for GEB points.
RSVP by logging in at ucf.joinhandshake.com, click on events and search for Career Lab. Click on the zoom link in each Career Lab to reserve your spot.
To join this session, please select "Sign in with SSO," make sure "UCF" is listed as the Zoom domain, and sign in with your NID and NID password.
]]>CAPS Workshops are designed to address common concerns and help students develop skills to enhance well-being and reduce stress. All CAPS workshops are offered free to UCF students and you do not need to be clients at CAPS to participate.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, workshops will be held online through Zoom. Workshops will share information about mental health and wellness, but they are not a substitute for mental health treatment.
For a full list of Spring 2021 CAPS Workshops and to access the link to join a virtual workshop, please click here: https://caps.sdes.ucf.edu/groups/caps-workshops/
]]>The event will be posted on our MSC Instagram and Facebook page stories
]]>Students must register for this workshop through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success. Students will receive a link to participate online upon registration in myUCF.
]]>Over the last three-quarters of a century, the global population has seen remarkable advancements at all levels of society. Today there are historic lows of extreme poverty, child mortality, and illiteracy—and advancements in health, education, and technology continue to accelerate – even during the global pandemic. At the same time, the world currently faces a range of challenges that threaten natural resources and economic progress, political stability, and human safety.
Addressing climate change, migration, and security challenges—affecting all geographies—is more urgent than ever. There is a critical need to build resilience for individuals, communities, and institutions to better understand, prepare for, and withstand these interrelated threats. The Adrienne Arsht–Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center is dedicated to addressing these challenges, transforming ideas into action, and has committed to reaching one billion people with resilience solutions to climate change, migration, and security by 2030. The need is urgent and we are all vulnerable.
Join James Bacchus, Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity (“GEEO”) of the University of Central Florida, as he hosts a conversation between GEEO community fellow Chris Marlin, President of Lennar International and Kathy Baughman McLeod, Sr. VP and Director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht – Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center as they discuss plans to reach one billion people with resilience solutions to climate change, migration and security by 2030.
Speaker Biographies:
Chris Marlin
Chris Marlin is founder and president of Lennar International, a division of the largest and most innovative homebuilder in the United States - Lennar. Lennar International serves as Lennar’s global engagement hub, marketing and selling Lennar homes in the U.S. to buyers throughout the world, as well as curating foreign direct investment into Lennar’s portfolio of projects including PropTech, land development and multi-family ventures.
Chris is a leading commentator on cross border investments into the U.S. and has presented at a variety of global forums and events including the World Economic Forum, the Global Future Council on Cities, and Boao Forum for Asia. Chris has also been a featured expert on Bloomberg’s Daybreak Asia, CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia, and Singapore’s Channel NewsAsia.
Chris is a Director of the Atlantic Council, where he supports the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 for peace, justice and strong institutions. Through his involvement with the World Economic Forum’s Cities, Infrastructure and Urban Services platform, Chris is able to support SDG 11 for sustainable cities and communities. In addition, his involvement with the World Economic Forum’s COVID Action Platform allows him to support SDG 3 for good health and well-being.
Chris is a member of the Intellectual Council of the Boao Forum for Asia, A Fellowship for International Real Estate (AFIRE), and the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) – a global network of chief executives. During the summer of 2020, Chris served as Co-Chair of the working group on Digital Infrastructure and Economy for the non-partisan Commission on the National Response Enterprise, which focused on American security interests.
Kathy Baughman McLeod
As Senior Vice President of The Adrienne Arsht – Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, Kathy Baughman McLeod is leading and expanding the Center’s work to develop scalable policy, financial and technological solutions to build the resilience capacity of individuals, communities and institutions. Baughman McLeod comes to the Atlantic Council from Bank of America where she was Global Environmental and Social Risk Executive, and is former managing director of Climate Risk and resilience at The Nature Conservancy. She was an Energy & Climate Commissioner of the state of Florida, a policy fellow of the French Foreign Ministry and holds an MBA and MS in Geography.
She leads creation and execution of the Center’s strategy to achieve its goal of reaching one billion people worldwide with resilience solutions to the challenges of climate change, migration, and security by 2030. She leverages the significant global network, policy expertise, and intellectual capital of the Atlantic Council with strategic partnerships to deliver innovative on-the-ground solutions.
Baughman McLeod is the former senior vice president, Global Environmental & Social Risk, for Bank of America. In this role, she led the bank’s environmental and social risk policy work including climate risk disclosure efforts across the enterprise, in select lines of business and throughout four global regions. She also helped use the bank’s global reach to advance low carbon and climate resilient investments toward reaching the bank’s commitment of deploying $125 billion in capital by 2025.
In her prior role as managing director, Climate Risk & Resilience for the Nature Conservancy, Baughman McLeod led a global team of fifty policy experts, scientists, and financial specialists focused on using natural infrastructure to reduce storm and flood risk throughout Latin America, Australia, Asia, the US, and the Caribbean. She also launched the organization’s insurance initiative that creates market-based products that protect nature and coastal economies, as well as the Conservancy’s humanitarian initiative focused on climate disaster risk reduction called “Nature Protects People.”
A published author and award-winning producer of the documentary film series, The Nature of People, Baughman McLeod was a policy fellow of the French Foreign Ministry and an appointed member of the Florida Energy & Climate Commission. She holds an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, an MS in geography, and a BS in international affairs from Florida State University.
]]>This online activity is for students who want to improve their French skills, and native speakers are welcome (you must have a ucf.edu email address to join). The event is for students with at least an intermediate level of French.
It is offered every other Wednesday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., on the following dates:
Jan 20, 2021
Feb 3, 2021
Feb 17, 2021
Mar 3, 2021
Mar 17, 2021
Mar 31, 2021
Apr 14, 2021
Please contact Ms. Julie Pomerleau at Julie.Pomerleau@ucf.edu for the log-in information.
]]>This event is offered virtually through Zoom. You may register for this workshop using the following link: https://ucf.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtc-GvqzgqGtbETAni4YAuUgNpSmFTayid
The Zoom meeting information will be sent to the email address that you provide when you register. Knights or UCF email is required.
]]>NTE Communities promise to:
Applications not required. If you’d like to join us but are unable to make the monthly meetings, enroll in our Webcourse.
All meetings will be conducted via Zoom.
For Zoom information, visit: https://facultyexcellence.ucf.edu/development/non-tenure-earning-communities/
]]>During the Spring 2021 semester, all OUR workshops will be held through Zoom.
To register for this workshop, please visit: https://our.ucf.edu/about/calendar/
]]>Lecture guest speaker February 17, 2021:
Pauline J. Sheldon is Professor Emerita, University of Hawai’i, School of Travel Industry Management where she also served as Dean. She holds a PhD in Economics, an MBA, and a BS in Mathematics. Her research areas include sustainable and regenerative tourism, social entrepreneurship in tourism, transformative and wellness tourism. She has published seven books, and over 70 peer-reviewed research articles. Her most recent book is titled Social Entrepreneurship and Tourism with Daniele, and her most recent research is Designing Tourism Experiences for Inner Transformation. She is the first woman recipient of the UNWTO Ulysses Prize, and was the first woman President of the prestigious International Academy for the Study of Tourism. Pauline is a regular keynote speaker at tourism conferences around the world, and has consulted with World Bank, APEC, and UNWTO. She teaches with the Art of Living Foundation and is passionate about blending her study of tourism with her interest in the transformation of consciousness and the planet.
Presentation: "New Paradigms for a New Tourism"
This presentation will examine the new thinking required for tourism to adapt to the disruptive times in which we live. It will discuss shifts in economic paradigms, educational programs and the design of tourism experiences.
Or click the link below to join the webinar:
https://ucf.zoom.us/j/91653758344?pwd=MXN2c0FnT0tWenM4NmlvRm9jWjhtUT09
Passcode: 969608
Or iPhone one-tap : US: +19292056099,,91653758344# or +13017158592,,91653758344#
Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 929 205 6099 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799
Webinar ID: 916 5375 8344
International numbers available: https://ucf.zoom.us/u/adeKCSKNYI
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MSB 336 (Must RSVP on Knightconnect)
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