The Office of Graduate Student Life provides a variety of services to support graduate students throughout their time at UCF
Announcing the Final Examination of Josh FORER for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics. Interstellar plasma — interstellar clouds in particular — play an important role in determining the structure and evolution of galaxies. Understanding the time evolution of such plasmas requires knowledge of the chemical processes that drive their dynamics. Two processes are studied in this dissertation: …
Graduate Student LifeAnnouncing the Final Examination of Hunter Quebedeaux for the degree of Master of Science. Orbit propagation is the backbone of many problems in the space domain, such as uncertainty quantification, trajectory optimization, and guidance, navigation, and control of on orbit vehicles. Many of these techniques can rely on millions of orbit propagations, slowing computation, especially evident on low-powered satellite hardware. …
Graduate Student LifeJoin us for a free headshot event for graduate students! This is your chance to get a professional headshot taken by an experienced photographer. Headshots will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. No appointment necessary.
Graduate Student LifeThis session covers evaluating your publishing impacts and managing your online researcher profile. Learn about methods and tools to obtain citation counts and impact data, metrics to assist in identifying key journals and notable researchers, and why it’s important to develop an online profile using sites, such as ORCID, Research Gate, Academia.edu, PIVOT, Plum Analytics, and Google Scholar. This workshop …
Graduate Student LifeLearn more about the 3 Minute Thesis competition at UCF and how you can make the most of your application.
Graduate Student LifeThis workshop addresses the various conflicts of interest encountered by faculty during their academic and research tenure. The session will address conflicts of interest between faculty and students, financial conflicts of interests related to sponsored research and conflicts of commitments related to faculty members institutional assignments and their private business or consulting activity. The objective of the session is to …
Graduate Student LifeAnnouncing the Final Examination of Ms. Miranda D. Proctor for the degree of Master of Science in Clinical Psychology A review of the literature reveals a high incidence of body-image distress among breast cancer survivors who have undergone surgery, which is a natural response to the significant changes in their appearance. Reconstructive surgery, utilizing implants or flaps, may be employed …
Graduate Student LifeThe College of Graduate Studies invites all current graduate students to share with us any thoughts or concerns you have. We are here to support you throughout your graduate journey and these Town Hall events are a way for you to connect with the College Deans and share your experiences. Register Here!
Graduate Student LifeThis session highlights time-saving steps to locate academic sources for upcoming course assignments and literature reviews. Learn how to locate peer-reviewed articles and related sources for topics, identify relevant subject-databases and background information, develop a plan for reviewing sources, and tips to maximize Google Scholar. This workshop is offered through the Office of Graduate Student Life. See https://graduate.ucf.edu/graduatestudentlife for details.
Graduate Student LifePractice your conference networking skills at Graduate Student Life's Mocktails Networking event. This event, hosted in partnership with Career Services, offers an opportunity to practice the art of networking at a professional or academic conference. light refreshments will be provided.
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