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UCF Talent Fuels Orlando’s Rise as a Tech Hub

June 18, 2025
Over the years UCF’s academic work in the tech field has earned national recognition, with the university producing 25% of engineering and computer science graduates in Florida. This future-focused momentum is helping to advance Orlando’s tech hub, which ranks as the second-fastest-growing in the South, according to CommercialCafe.Florida’s Orlando metro area — including Sanford and…

UCF Students Support U.S. Military with New Technology

November 6, 2023
Reserve Mercury is one of the most ambitious real-world projects UCF computer science students have undertaken, with the mission to help members of the U.S. Army Reserve do their crucial work better. You probably know someone in the U.S. Army Reserve and don’t even realize it. There are nearly 200,000 Army Reserve soldiers across the…

NSF Awards UCF $2.9 Million to Train Next Generation of Cybersecurity Defenders

February 11, 2021
The University of Central Florida has been awarded a nearly $2.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to provide cybersecurity scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students. Scholarship recipients will focus on cybersecurity training and research at UCF, and after graduation, must work for a federal, state, local, or tribal government organization in a…
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