Tag: University of Central Florida

Scott PowersFebruary 4, 2016
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The University of Central Florida is advising students, faculty and staff that it has discovered a data breach that could have exposed release of Social Security numbers of up to 63,000 people at the university. Here’s the meat of Thursday’s announcement, released by UCF: “After UCF discovered the unauthorized access in January, university officials immediately […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 31, 2016

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Online advertising flooded into my computer and phone during the holiday-selling season: banner ads, email advertising including spam, Facebook ads, sponsored tweets, rich-media ads, pop-ups and pop-unders, and my personal favorite: pre-video ads that slow me down when I’m checking out the sports highlights from the previous night. As a sales guy, I understand that […]

Scott PowersJanuary 26, 2016
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Continuing research at the University of Central Florida has brought another federal grant of $1.9 million  to develop a method for protecting the troubled citrus industry from the disease HLB, also known as citrus greening. In awarding the funding to UCF nanoparticle researcher Swadeshmukul Santra, the U.S. Department of Agriculture also recognized the University of Central Florida […]

Scott PowersJanuary 21, 2016
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A new program to help students with intellectual disabilities such as autism get into college or other postsecondary schools will be coordinated through a new center to be developed at the University of Central Florida. The center startup money for such college programs and a scholarship program for such students was authorized by Senate Bill 672, a special […]


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