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Friday, March 09, 2018

• Biggest Winner

  March 9, 2018 at 12 a.m. until 11:59 p.m.
  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

  March 9, 2018 at 12 a.m. until 11:59 p.m.
  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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• Board of Trustees

  March 9, 2018 at 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
  Fairwinds Alumni Center: Ballroom

  Board of Trustees meeting at FAIRWINDS Alumni Center.

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• Intellectual Property Rights – ELECTIVE (Recurring Event)

  March 9, 2018 at 9 a.m. until 11 a.m.
  Graduate Student Center: Colbourn Hall, Suite 146

  John Miner from the Office of Research and Commercialization will present this seminar which will address intellectual property rights specifically concerning graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success.

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• Coordinated Activation and Silencing of Gene Expression: How Malaria Parasites Evade the Human Immune Response

  March 9, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
  UCF Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences (Lake Nona): 103

  "Coordinated Activation and Silencing of Gene Expression: How Malaria Parasites Evade the Human Immune Response" Speaker: Dr. Kirk DeitschDepartment of Microbiology and ImmunologyWeill Cornell Medical College, NYFaculty Host: Dr. Debopam Chakrabarti The talk will be in BBS 103 (Lake Nona) and simulcast to HPA2 Room 345.

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• UCF Alumna & Tech Artist To Speak On Game Design

  March 9, 2018 at 1 p.m. until 3 p.m.
  UCF Center for Emerging Media

  Join UCF alumna Caitlyn Trout as she gives a presentation on game development at UCF's Center For Emerging Media. Trout is currently a technical aritst at Gearbox Software. The talk is free and open to the public. More info here.

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

  March 9, 2018 at 1 p.m. until 2 p.m.
  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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• Dear John: Celebrating John Coltrane with guest George Garzone, tenor saxophone

  March 9, 2018 at 7 p.m. until 9:30 p.m.
  Rehearsal Hall: Auditorium

  Tenor Saxophonist George Garzone joins the UCF Jazz Professors for a special evening celebrating the music of John Coltrane. There will be a pre-concert lecture about John Coltrane beginning at 7pm, with the concert beginning at 8pm. This is one you will not want to miss! $20, $5 for Students, Free with UCF ID

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