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- FSEC CITED AS “PRE-EMINENT” ORGANIZATION
National Utility Group Recommends Support for Energy Future
The Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) was recently singled out as one of the country's "pre-eminent organizations"
conducting research today on ways to ensure adequate domestic energy sources in the future ...
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- U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PARTNERS WITH UCF
The U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Central Florida have agreed to break ground on a new facility
dedicated to studying Central Florida’s water and how it is affected by stresses including ...
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- UCF RESEARCH FEATURED AT FTT EVENT
Research that has shown promise in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease and cancer shared the stage with multiple technologies
available for use by high-tech industries at the Florida Research Consortium’s two-day Florida Tech Transfer Conference hosted by the University of Central Florida ...
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- Q & A WITH JIM FENTON
Director, Florida Solar Energy Center
The Florida Solar Energy Center has just been lauded by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners as
one of the country’s preeminent organizations conducting research on domestic energy. What is FSEC doing right to earn this distinction?
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COMMERCIALIZATION AND PURE RESEARCH MAKE FOR A FEAST!
Think for a moment about the pressing issues of our time. These include sustainable energy, cures for cancer and neodegenerative
diseases, and economic diversity to insure access to good jobs for Florida citizens. Others will come up with other critical items,
but progress on just these three is a big deal. And progress is being made by UCF faculty, staff, and students.
Since the addition of the term “commercialization” to the name of this office I have heard some rumblings about ...
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- LASER SCIENTIST NAMED DISTINGUISHED RESEARCHER
An international leader in laser source development has been named the University of Central Florida’s distinguished
researcher of the year for 2005. Martin Richardson, a professor of optics in the College of Optics & Photonics, was
presented with the award at the university’s Founder’s Day ceremony April 13 ...
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- RESEARCH MAY HOLD PROMISE FOR TREATING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
A compound similar to the components of DNA may improve the chances that stem cells transplanted from a patient’s bone marrow to the
brain will take over the functions of damaged cells and help treat Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological illnesses ...
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- UCF RESEARCHER UNCOVERS CANCER LINK
A University of Central Florida researcher has uncovered an ancient protein that could be a critical link to stopping the
uncontrolled division of tumor cells that are the basis of cancer ...
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- UCF SIGNALS NEW RESEARCH THRUST IN COMPUTER VISION
Anyone who has passed the corner of Orange Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Orlando recently has witnessed a
UCF research project ... Read more...
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John C. Hitt
President
University of Central Florida
jhitt@mail.ucf.edu
Terry Hickey
Provost and Vice President
thickey@mail.ucf.edu
M. J. Soileau
Vice President for Research
mj@mail.ucf.edu
Tom O’Neal
Associate Vice President for Research
Chief Executive Officer, UCF Technology Incubator
oneal@mail.ucf.edu
Editor
Barb Compton Abney
babney@mail.ucf.edu
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