Events By Category: “Workshop/Conference”

  • Talk Tuesday: Pre‑Law Power Tools

    Virtual

    Ready to sharpen your path to law school? Academic Advancement Programs invites you to join a session which introduces LexScholars by AccessLex, a program designed to build skills, confidence and connections for aspiring law students. You’ll also explore additional AccessLex resources, from financial education to admissions support, that provide practical tools to navigate the journey ahead. Leave with free, actionable …

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  • Linux Tool to Orchestrate Research: Makefiles

    R1:101: Research 1, Room 101

    Make is a command-line tool often used to build executable code from source code. While ubiquitous for those working with C or FORTRAN, Make can also manage task dependencies for any Unix commands. Researchers seeking to implement reproducible workflows, automating data analysis pipelines or producing tables and plots for publication can automate their workflow using Make. This workshop is intended for new …

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  • Knights Write Showcase

    Pegasus Grand Ballroom and Virtual

    Knights Write is an annual celebration of excellence in writing at UCF. During this event, UCF students, faculty, and invited speakers present research and creative work that explores the importance of writing across contexts, formats, and domains. Join us for an exciting day of posters, presentations and awards that feature thoughtful, engaging, outstanding work! Schedule of Events: 9:00 – 10:30 …

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  • Welcome and Poster Presentations

    Pegasus Grand Ballroom

    Knights Write is an annual celebration of excellence in writing at UCF. During this event, UCF students, faculty, and invited speakers present research and creative work that explores the importance of writing across contexts, formats, and domains. Join us for an exciting day of posters, presentations and awards that feature thoughtful, engaging, outstanding work! This event is hosted by the …

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  • Writing Research in Action: Investigating the Effects of Online Writing, Speech, and Video Rhetoric

    Pegasus Grand Ballroom

    This panel presentation features the findings of five students whose ENC 1102 research projects led them to new discoveries about the writing practices of diverse discourse communities online. Join us to learn more about the effects of writing and research! This event is part of the Knights Write Showcase. To find out more click here. This event is hosted by …

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  • AI Slop: What, Why, How?: Keynote Presentation with Dr. Anuj Gupta

    Pegasus Grand Ballroom

    Understanding, Diagnosing, and Tackling the Flood of Low-Quality AI Content "AI slop" or low-quality AI-generated content is flooding our digital lives, from a deluge of cringey content on social media, to made up citations in research papers, and emails that contain more em-dashes than words. This talk breaks down what AI slop is, diagnoses why it exists, and invites you …

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  • Welcome Wednesday: Quest for the Perfect Grad Program

    Virtual

    Academic Advancement Programs invites you to this Welcome Wednesday session featuring representatives from UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management. This workshop will help students identify graduate programs that align with their goals and interests. Participants will learn how to research programs, evaluate options, and understand key factors in the admissions process. The session will conclude with a Q&A, giving attendees …

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  • Thinking Visually: Communicating Scientific Information In Visual Forms

    Pegasus Grand Ballroom

    This panel explores the ways that narratives, comics, and other graphics can intersect with health and medicine to communicate scientific information to lay audiences. Featuring students from ENC 3482H (Graphic Medicine) and ENC 3453 (Writing about Health and Medicine), this panel will challenge attendees to think about writing as so much more than alphabetic text.  This event is part of …

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  • Parallel Computing in R

    research 1: 101: 101

    This workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of using Parallel Processing within the context of High-Performance Computing (HPC) with R. Attendees will gain an understanding of the benefits and limitations of HPC, learn about the available provider platforms, and practice logging in and running jobs through both Open OnDemand (OOD) and from the Command Line Interface (CLI). The session emphasizes …

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  • Exploring Rhetoric and Power in Our Lives

    Pegasus Grand Ballroom

    Contrary to popular discourse, rhetoric isn’t just for politicians—it’s for everyone. In this presentation, five students from various majors will share their explorations of rhetoric and its power in our everyday lives. These ENC1101 projects remind us just how much rhetoric and writing matter even if we don’t always take the time to notice its impacts. This event is part …

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  • Level Up Your Study Skills: Proven Strategies for College Courses

    Virtual

    Do you ever feel like your current study habits aren’t delivering the results you want? Are you searching for effective ways to excel in your classes and exams? Many students realize that the strategies that worked in high school don’t always translate to success in college.  That’s because college courses bring new challenges: professors may be less personally involved, class sizes are larger, exams carry …

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  • Knights Write Awards Ceremony

    Pegasus Grand Ballroom

    The Knights Write Awards Ceremony recognizes outstanding presentations at the annual event and excellence in publication in several writing-related journals and magazines. We will be joined by College of Arts and Humanities Dean Jeffery Moore to honor and recognize award-winning writers and scholars. This event is part of the Knights Write Showcase. To find out more click here. This event …

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  • New Models for the Future: Tracing Narratives of Disability, Citizenship, and Bodily Autonomy

    Pegasus Grand Ballroom

    This panel traces narratives of disability across time and space to reveal how seemingly disparate phenomena share common roots in eugenic logic that endures in present-day policies and futures. The presentations explore the ways eugenic ideologies construct narratives of disability that render certain bodies and minds invisible while hypervisualizing others as threats to be managed, controlled, or eliminated. Such narratives …

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  • Getting the Most Out of College Writing Assignments

    Pegasus Grand Ballroom

    In this panel, tutors from the University Writing Center will share perspectives shaped by their work with writers from a wide range of academic programs. In this session presenter will: Offer practical strategies for approaching college writing projects with purpose and an eye toward professional growth. Consider the ways that choices about topics and formats can transform course assignments into …

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  • Inquiry, Advocacy, and Social Action: Showcasing Honors Undergraduate Theses in Writing and Rhetoric

    Virtual

    This panel spotlights undergraduate students completing honors thesis projects that showcase the range, rigor, and relevance of Writing and Rhetoric research. Each presenter explores how writing functions as inquiry, advocacy, and social action—whether through analyzing digital discourse, examining accessibility in public communication, studying rhetorical strategies in health and science writing, or tracing how identity and language shape communities. Panelist Information …

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  • Developing a Network Sense: Visualizing Trends in the Field of Rhetoric and Composition

    Virtual

    This virtual roundtable session will feature “network sense” visualizations (including frequency tables/graphs, word clouds and streams, radial models, heat maps, and more) developed by several students from the Fall 2025 MA Colloquium to make sense of disciplinary trends in the field of Rhetoric and Composition. As described by Derek Mueller, network sense is a means of understanding disciplinarity through the …

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  • Reading Academic Articles and Finding Your Research Niche (Recurring Event)

    Virtual

    Are you starting research and planning on conducting a literature review?  In this workshop, we will discuss how to write a literature review. Join us to learn the importance, purpose and structure of a literature review. This workshop will also offer tools for starting a literature review and writing one yourself. Questions? Feel free to contact the Office of Undergraduate …

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  • From Idea to Air: Designing Academic Podcasts

    Faculty Multimedia Center, Classroom Building 1: Room 201

    Boost student engagement with educational podcasts! Learn to plan, produce, and publish powerful episodes to enrich your course content or reach beyond the classroom. We'll also explore how AI tools can streamline your podcast production. This workshop is limited to faculty and staff.

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  • Budgeting 101

    CSEL 121

    Join Centsible Knights as we cover everything you need to know about the basics of budgeting and help your dollars make sense.

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  • Pre-Health Thursday: Careers in Pharmacy

    Virtual

    Curious about where a PharmD can take you? Academic Advancement Programs (AAP) invites you to this Pre-Health Thursday session featuring faculty from Palm Beach Atlantic University. These experts in Pharmacogenomics, Ambulatory Care, Research and Oncology will share how they built their careers and found their niche. Whether you're just starting to explore pharmacy or already planning your path, this session will spotlight …

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  • Linux – Advanced Unix Shell Programming

    Virtual

    The "shell" in Unix is a generic term for the program that provides the basic user interface to the system. Typically, this would be a command line interface, but might also include a graphical interface (e.g., "gnome shell"). This workshop will cover commands common to most variations of Unix and Unix command line interface shells. The second hour of this …

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  • Easy Quiz Creation with Respondus 4

    Virtual

    Are you looking for a faster, easier way to create quizzes for Webcourses@UCF? Respondus 4 is available to all faculty at UCF and allows you to format a Word document to create your quizzes. This workshop will review how to access the tool, format quiz questions, and use Respondus 4 to create and upload your quiz. Please note: Respondus 4 …

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  • UCF Wind Ensemble at the College Band Directors National Association Southern Division (CBDNA)

    University of South Florida

    For the second time in five years, UCF’s Wind Ensemble has received a prestigious invitation to perform at the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) Southern Division Conference. This year’s conference will be hosted at the University of South Florida in Tampa, February 19-21, 2026. The UCF Wind Ensemble’s performance will be at 7:00 PM on Thursday, February 19. The …

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  • Get Started in Undergraduate Research (Recurring Event)

    Dixon Career Center: DCC 121 and Virtual

    Are you interested in learning more about research? Not sure where to start or how to navigate all the programs available? This workshop will discuss how to expand your academic experience through undergraduate research, including how to get started by finding a faculty mentor.  Questions? Feel free to contact the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR@ucf.edu) 

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  • UCF Transfer Application

    Virtual

    Ready to apply to UCF? Need assistance with completing the UCF application? Join us for the virtual UCF Application Workshop! Remember, the deadline to apply for (Summer, Fall, Spring) is (March 1, June 1, November 1)

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