Articles By: Tyler M. Neher
UCF Office of Emergecy Management Issues Tornado Warning Until 11:00
The UCF Office of Emergency Management has activated a tornado warning on campus until 11:00. The following text message was sent out to students and faculty:
*UCF ALERT!* Tornado Warning until 1100! Seek shelter immediately in the nearest hardened building, away from doors and windows!
Two cross-campus...
August 27th, 2012 | Beyond UCF, News | Read More
Sally Ride, First Woman Astronaut Dies at 61.
Astronaut and academic Sally Ride has died today of pancreatic cancer. She was the first American woman to travel into space on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.
The biography at the Sally Ride Science Foundation website tells of a driven youth, obtaining both her Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral...
July 26th, 2012 | Beyond UCF, Culture, News | Read More
Opinion: Concussion Management Should be a Top Priority
Concussions are the result of the brain jarring inside the skull, causing irreversible damage to the brain’s outer cerebral cortex. After casual discussion with friends, I found it surprising how few twenty-somethings knew this and how dangerous this condition is. Most people I spoke with knew that...
July 13th, 2012 | Beyond UCF, Football, Health, News, Sports, Your Voice | Read More
Coveted “Higgs Boson” Located
On the morning of the Fourth of July, the ATLAS experiment, based out of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, delivered findings to the International Conference of High Energy Physics in Australia that they have found evidence that was consistent with the existence Higgs boson.
The ATLAS experiment...
July 5th, 2012 | Academics, Beyond UCF, News | Read More
Opinion: UCF Drinking Water May be a Risk
UCF tap water is consumed daily by tens of thousands of students, faculty, and staff members. Although it is assumed that the second largest school in the nation would provide a clean and safe source of potable water, that is unfortunately not the case. Environmental watchdog Environmental Working Group has...
June 30th, 2012 | Columns, Health, News, Safety, UCF Administration, Your Voice | Read More





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