New Year, New You: How an Anti-Inflammatory Coating Can Keep Joint Implants...
January 7, 2016 As we start the New Year, many of us will be making resolutions or goals about our physical health—promises to eat healthier and to exercise more often. For those of us who are older,...
View ArticleStartups, Start Here: Launching a Tech Company Based on University Research
January 13, 2016 At the end of last year, our special blog series, From Idea to Marketplace, focused on the licensing process at UCF. We are starting 2016 with a new biweekly series, Startups, Start...
View ArticleStartups, Start Here: Startup-Friendly Innovations in the UCF Tech Transfer...
Technologies available for license from the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) are an opportunity to turn potential into profit. When taking any technology to market – whether defense or diagnostics,...
View ArticleEradicating Fire Ants with Hot Water
If you ever see an anthill, big or small, on the sidewalk, in a field, or even in your own backyard, it’s most likely the home of a fire ant colony—specifically, the red imported fire ant (solenopsis...
View ArticleStartups Start Here: Interview with Successful Entrepreneur, CEO of Tech...
Darren Engle, an entrepreneur and a UCF alumnus, has launched two successful startups. The first, Acudyn, Inc., a research, design, and development corporation that specialized in the advancement of...
View ArticleExpanding Fiber Lasers from Near-IR to Mid-IR is Enabling New Applications...
On Thursday, March 10, and Friday, March 11, CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics will host The 2016 Industrial Affiliates Symposium: Advances in Optics and Photonics. Activities will include...
View ArticleAn Introduction to University Accelerators – Supporting the Earliest-Stage...
Academia and Entrepreneurship: An Innovative Partnership The past decade has seen an increase of university investment in programs, staff, and infrastructure to support entrepreneurs of all types and...
View ArticleNeed Help Getting a Commercialization Grant?
Working on fundamental research with potential commercial impact? Need assistance identifying commercialization grants to fund your research or new venture? At the Venture Acceleration Lab (VAL), we...
View ArticleThe Buzz on Tracking Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes
April 7, 2016 There’s one tiny pest that bugs Americans as the temperatures heat up: mosquitoes. Besides causing itchy welts and bumps, mosquitoes can carry a multitude of diseases including West Nile...
View ArticleTop Two Matching Grant Funds in Florida for Tech Companies Partnered with UCF
April 27, 2016 It takes capital to launch a company. If your startup’s product or service is powered by technology developed at a public university in Florida, you may be eligible for matching grants....
View ArticleA New Way of Making the Nanoparticles Found in Common Household Products
May 4, 2016 Ayman Abouraddy, Ph.D., associate professor in The College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at UCF has helped create a new way to form micro- and nanoparticles. This new way of doing things...
View ArticleSerendipitous Start for this Student Startup
May 11, 2016 The startup for students by students got its start because of the contagious culture of entrepreneurship at UCF and in Central Florida. Schoolflow, an education technology startup company,...
View ArticleWhat Happens to the Research? I-Corps Teaches Teams How to Take Research to...
May 25, 2016 Existing knowledge from patents can be used to create billion dollar businesses. Universities, like the University of Central Florida, have millions of dollars’ worth of innovative...
View ArticleDetecting Dementia Early With a Simple Assessment Tool
June 2, 2016 Dementia is a neurodegenerative syndrome and it is on the rise world-wide. Detecting it early can mean a better quality of life for those affected and more time planning for the future....
View ArticleStudent Entrepreneurship at UCF is on the Rise with the Blackstone LaunchPad
June 29, 2016 Created in 2013, the Blackstone LaunchPad at UCF is a part of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL), the university’s campus-wide academic entrepreneurship center. The...
View ArticleMonitoring the Stress on Bridges, Buildings, Dams, and Tunnels Can Prevent...
July 11, 2016 When we wake up in our homes, travel down highways in our cars, and arrive at work or school buildings, we expect these engineered structures to be sturdy and strong to keep us safe. We...
View ArticleUCF Students and Faculty Team Up to Commercialize Their Invention
July 20, 2016 FeynmanNano is a student-run, B2B startup company that creates nanostructures originally designed to make solar panels more efficient in producing energy. This technology was developed at...
View ArticleLaunch a Startup or Apply for Jobs After Graduation? One Ph.D. Student’s Story.
August 3, 2016 Helicon Chemical Company is a B2B startup co-founded by President and CEO David Reid, Ph.D., a materials scientist and engineer. Reid launched two companies while he was a doctoral...
View ArticleStartups, Start Here: Three Tips for Raising Investment Capital for Your...
September 8, 2016 Raising capital from angel investors and venture capital firms can provide the funding needed to transform your innovation into a profitable company. But it doesn’t come easily, and...
View ArticleOptical Fibers: Light Guiding on a String of Glass
March 2, 2017 About 176 years ago in Geneva, Swiss physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon inadvertently demonstrated one of the core principles of fiber optics: total internal reflection (TIR). TIR is a...
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