2008 Woodie Awards
UCF researchers are trying to increase traffic safety and decrease red-light running with two simple words: "signal ahead." In a study conducted by the Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation, researchers have placed the words "signal ahead" along Alafaya Trail, just south of its intersection with Gemini Boulevard.
A crash report released Monday by Florida Highway Patrol revealed details of the fatal accident in Ocala on Jan. 26 that killed a UCF student and four of his friends. The report concluded that Joshua Ammirato, 18, was driving about 120 mph as he approached the north end of Greystone Airport and hit a runway light, vaulting off Runway 36.
Health care, especially in the retirement mecca of Florida, is a topic of particular concern this election season. What makes America's health care prices soar? UCF Health Services Administration professor Lynn Unruh may have an answer. According to her recent study hospitals and patients can benefit from lower costs if an appropriate nursing staff is maintained.
One UCF director was the key to creating a student-exchange program between UCF and a university halfway around the world. Issa Batarseh, director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, moved to the U.S. from Jordan when he was 18. In 1991, he turned down a job offer in Australia and decided to teach at UCF.
The Mock Trial Team at UCF is gearing up to host, for the first time ever, the East Coast Regional Competition for the American Mock Trial Association. In order for a school to host a regional competition, it must go through a bidding process in which several universities compete by submitting to AMTA a proposal arguing, in essence, that their school is the most qualified to be the host.
Students crowded around with their camera phones ready as they watched pure water drip from the exhaust of a Ford Focus on Thursday. "It's absolutely amazing," said 20-year-old psychology major Richard Henriquez. "You could literally put a glass under the tailpipe and be left with nothing but a pure glass of water.
Focus the Nation at UCF, an organization devoted to global-warming solutions, promoted climate change with a teach-in Thursday. At the event, Orange County Mayor Richard Crotty unveiled a new solar energy system at the Orange County Convention Center. "This is the largest campus teach-in on global warming in campus history," said Crotty, a UCF alumnus.
One of the most innovative minds in the world - placed in the same category as Einstein and Galileo - works right here at UCF. Part of the National Academy of Sciences in Italy, Henry Daniell, professor and researcher of molecular and microbiology, was inducted into the group based on his revolutionary work in life sciences.