...no place like home by Tenee Hart | UCF Art Gallery
2025-08-28 10:00 - 17:00 | UCF Art Gallery
Explore …no place like home by Tenee Hart at the [UCF Art Gallery](https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/no-place-like-home-by-tenee-hart/) from Aug. 22 - Sept. 26.

Exhibition Statement:

"Being at-home is a matter of how one feels or how one might fail to feel." - Sara Ahmed

The conflicted sense of home is where this exhibition begins. Destabilizing the romanticized concept of home, this exhibition will challenge the representation of this ideology by exploring various facets of home across multiple planes of identity including culture, gender, and sexuality. In …no place like home the works will both physicalize and undercut domestic connotations, becoming an anti-monument that calls attention to its own unstable foundation - this idea of home as comfort or discomfort. Dedicated to such ideas of home, this exhibit will include works that stem from the artist's personal childhood nostalgia and the unforgiving chokeholds such memories can create.

To learn more about this exhibition, click [HERE.](https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/no-place-like-home-by-tenee-hart/)

Good enough practices in scientific computing
2025-08-28 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
This workshop is targeted at a broad audience of researchers who want to learn how to be more efficient and effective in their data analysis and computing, whatever their career stage.
The lesson is inspired by and based on the paper, Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing (Wilson et al., 2017): "a set of good computing practices that every researcher can adopt, regardless of their current level of computational skill".
These practices encompass data management, programming, collaborating with colleagues, organizing projects, tracking work, and writing manuscripts.
Prerequisites: There are no specific prerequisites. Learners should be participating or intending to participate in scientific research that involves computing. A basic knowledge of a coding language will help with the section on code & software.

This event is not being recorded. Any materials provided by the presenter will be sent to all registrants by the end of the second business day after the conclusion of the event. Please email ResearchITEvents@ucf.edu to request access to the materials two business days after the completion of the event if you did not register.

Presented by [Nandan Tandon, Ph.D.](https://rci.research.ucf.edu/person/nandan-tandon/)

Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0VUBUVeH4yzfbGS
Registration Link: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0VUBUVeH4yzfbGS

CREOL Fall Colloquium: Leo Schowalter, Lit Thinking / UCF Materials Sci. & Eng.
2025-08-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual and CREOL: CROL-103
Title: The development of AlGaN ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors on native AlN substrates for UVC and far UVC device applications

Abstract: Ultrawide bandgap semiconductors (bandgaps greater than 4.5 eV) have attracted recent attention for new applications in high power switches (EV and smart grid) and high-power rf. UWBG semiconductors are also being used to make novel light emitters at wavelengths shorter than 280nm. However, the UWBG semiconductors still present big challenges in growth and doping. One of the best examples are the pseudomorphic AlGaN alloys gown on high quality AlN substrates where 2-inch diameter is now widely available and 100mm are being sampled. These single-crystal AlN substrates have enabled growth of high quality Al1-xGaxN alloys that are pseudomorphically strained to match the lattice of the underlying AlN substrate. The low extended defect density has made it possible to take advantage of a new kind of conductivity (distributed polarization doping) made possible in materials that have a spontaneous polarization. Most significantly, p-type Al1-xGaxN has now been demonstrated in Al1-xGaxN without the use of impurity doping. This breakthrough solved the critical problem of unacceptable resistivities in the doped layers with increasing band gap (particularly for p-type dopants).

Pseudomorphic growth and distributed polarization doping have made the achievement of new devices possible, such as the UVC laser diode. These laser diodes open new possibilities for optical instruments which will benefit from very compact sources of radiation which are coherent and nearly monochromatic. It is also possible to precisely direct laser radiation in ways that simply are not possible for LEDs. As this technology develops, it may even be possible to achieve higher wall plug efficiencies than are achievable with UVC LEDs due to improved photon extraction efficiencies. However, the lifetime of these diodes (which operate at much higher current densities than LEDs) is still an important issue that needs to be addressed.

In this talk, I will give an introduction to the societal issues that can be addressed by UWBG semiconductors as well as explaining why there are still issues with these special materials. I will explain so-called "distributed polarization doping" and how we used this phenomena to make the world's first UVC laser diode. I will also introduce our new effort at the Visium UltraLabs in the Cornell Tech Park to develop far UVC (shorter than 235nm) LEDs.

About the Speaker: Dr. Schowalter was employed by the GE Global Research Center after receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1981. He was a professor in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Physics Department from 1987 until 2006 and was Department Chair from 1997 to 2000. In 1997, he co-founded Crystal IS where he was the first CEO and later CTO until he retired in 2021. Dr. Schowalter continues the collaboration with Prof. Amano as a Visiting Professor but has also now joined the Florida-based startup company Lit Thinking which is developing cost-effective far UVC for safe disinfection of shared spaces. Dr. Schowalter is also leading the effort to found the Visium Ultralabs in the Cornell Tech Park, with support from Lit Thinking, to develop the AlGaN ultrawide bandgap semiconductors including for far-UVC light emitters for human safe disinfection.

Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/96065292638#success

UCF Executive Master of Health Administration Info Session
2025-08-28 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join faculty and staff from [UCF's School of Global Health Management and Informatics](https://ccie.ucf.edu/hmi/) to learn more about our [online Executive Masters of Health Administration](https://www.ucf.edu/online/degree/executive-master-health-administration/)! The Executive MHA (eMHA) track is attractive to working health care professionals due to the online delivery format, which allows students to earn an Executive MHA degree from any location and at times convenient to each student. Throughout the program, students enhance their leadership skills and learn from leading experts and academics in the field of health administration.

During this one-hour Zoom you will:

* have an extensive overview of the Executive MHA program and what makes us unique.
* receive a thorough overview of the application and admissions process.
* build connections with UCF staff who specifically work with the program.
* have the ability to get all your questions answered!

Virtual Location URL: https://applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/portal/emha_webinars?id=a3dc7201-5f3e-4b74-8a97-ee7d2040f9c8

UCF Football vs. Jacksonville State
2025-08-28 19:00 - 23:00 | Acrisure Bounce House (Football Stadium)
The UCF football team hosts its season opener on Thursday, August 28, against Jacksonville State in search of the program's 10th straight opening night win.

A new era is upon the Knights, as a familiar face in head coach [Scott Frost](https://ucfknights.com/staff/scott-frost "Scott Frost") returns to the helm of the Black and Gold. Frost originally served as UCF's head coach from 2016 to 2017, culminating in a historic 13-0 season, an AAC championship and a national championship that captured the nation's attention.

More information can be found by visiting UCF Athletics' [game day guide](https://ucfknights.com/news/2025/08/20/the-guide-in-25) and [ucfknights.com/sports/football](https://ucfknights.com/sports/football).
