A new restaurant, Tailgaters Smokehouse & Spirits, is the first on-campus restaurant in the U.S. to maintain a liquor license, according to Greg Faull, owner and builder, and will open on campus August 1. Faull has been a busy man. "It's been a handful," Faull said, as he has had only one day off in the past 100 days.
Researchers from all of Florida's public universities are officially joining forces to improve the state's energy landscape. On June 25, Gov. Charlie Crist created the Florida Energy Systems Consortium when he signed House Bill 7135 at the 2008 Serve To Preserve Florida Summit on Global Climate Change in Miami.
Members of the UCF Women's Rowing team are eagerly awaiting completion of the $2.5 million Intercollegiate Rowing Center on Lake Pickett Road. The Center is designed by HOK Architects and will be set on the South shore of Lake Pickett, which is located just East of UCF's main campus.
A space project from UCF was selected by NASA to be a part of the agency's Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations. The Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, also known as GOLD, was one of two projects that were selected by NASA from a group of 17 proposals.
Even though Halloween is still about three months away, Universal Orlando has already begun holding auditions for one of its most popular annual events, Halloween Horror Nights. "We like to start auditioning in July because we have almost 1,000 roles to fill," said Michael Roddy, manager of show development at Universal Orlando, who has been working on Halloween Horror Nights for about 14 years.
Coral reefs off the coast of South Florida with tissue damage are failing to heal when located near land-based pollution sources that release industrial chemicals, fuel oils and other contaminants, according to the findings of John E. Fauth, UCF associate professor of biology and his colleagues.