Several members of our Felsing team are graduates of UCF, so we proudly support our hometown university. We have patiently watched it grow from its early roots as FTU to what it is today—with an enrollment of over 70,000 students consisting of 13 colleges offering more than 230 degree programs.
UCF is on the cutting edge of innovation. Did you know that the UCF Knights football team will feature QR Codes on the back of their jerseys? Yes! Instead of a player’s roster number, the back of the jerseys will feature a giant QR code that, when scanned, will link to that player’s bio page on the UCF athletics website. From there, fans can find links to a player’s social media channels and websites to purchase their own player-branded merchandise.
Other noteworthy headline news for UCF:
- UCF will compete in the AAC (American Athletic Conference) for one more athletic season, then transition to membership in the Big 12 Conference beginning in 2023-24. Helping them financially is a local Winter Park couple, Marc and Sharon Hagel, who pledged more than $5 million to UCF to fund an enhanced football campus to prepare for their success in the Big 12. It is the largest cash pledge ever made by an individual or couple to UCF athletics.
- A new name is coming to UCF football venue. Effective for the upcoming 2022 season the UCF Knights’ home football stadium will be known as FBC Mortgage Stadium, leaving behind Spectrum, its name for the past 5 years.
- According to U.S. News and World Report Top 10 rankings for Public Universities, UCF ranks #8 as Most Innovated University in the nation. In graduate programs, UCF ranks #3 in Homeland Security and Emergency Management, #5 in Atomic/Molecular/Optical Physics and #9 in Non-Profit Management.
- Limitless Solutions, Inc., a non-profit direct support organization at UCF, specializes in creating and donating personalize 3D-printed prosthetic arms for children. This year’s summer semester welcomed 48 students in the program—the largest class in Limitless’ history!
- UCF students in College of Engineering and Computer Science helped to develop technology that would detect an interstate wrong way driver and alert them with wrong-way signs outlined with obnoxiously bright LED lights flashing. Cameras capture a car when it drives the wrong way and then alerts state troopers who can get there before an accident occurs.
- When the James Webb telescope released its first full-color images and spectroscopic data last month, UCF students joined a team of scientists who will be doing research on the data collected by the telescope using the advanced instrumentation to find new galaxies, explore the formation of stars, and give us unprecedented data about the physical and chemical properties of planetary systems, including our own.
- And it is not all about the students. Deborah Beidel is the executive director of UCF Restores, a clinical research center located on UCF campus, dedicated to changing the way Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD) is understood, diagnosed, and treated. Deborah and her team work to help veterans, active-duty military personnel, first responders, and even survivors of sexual assault and mass shootings. They look at current treatments and outcomes and find ways to do it better, getting improved results for the patient.
You can easily see why we support UCF. Charge on Knights!
Source: University of Central Florida; UCF Today by Susan Vernon-Devlin and Nicole Dudenhoefer ’17 | August 2, 2022;UCF Today by Nicole Dudenhoefer ’17 | November 1, 2021; UCF Today By UCF Athletics | May 31, 2022;
Sports Illustrated, Ross Dellenger; April 15, 2022; OBJ By Shauna Muckle – Editorial Intern, Orlando Business Journal, July 4, 2022