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Najer Victor clearly remembers the day his spark for baseball was ignited.

He recalls playing a pick-up game of baseball in the U.S. Virgin Islands alongside his friends and siblings, substituting tennis balls for the typical white leather balls.

The senior right-handed pitcher said he is one of the more athletic people in his family, but baseball was not his strong suit at the time. Instead, his younger sister, Janiya, excelled on the diamond and outplayed everyone that day. He took note of h

UCF baseball closed the 2023 chapter with a second-round loss in the American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship, but now the team is ready to open this season with a chance to prove itself to the Big 12.

The UCF Knights made big changes during the offseason, including naming former UCF baseball player Rich Wallace as the new head coach, following Greg Lovelady’s departure after seven seasons. Along with the addition of a new coaching staff, the Knights also have 23 new players on the ro

A student within the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs recently brought attention to her perceived issues in the political science program.

A student-made survey and flyer circulated throughout the online UCF political science community asking peers if they have experienced a lack of resources within the program. According to the survey website, the survey asks students if they have experienced any grievances, including a lack of in-person classes, lack of resources for pr

When those who know Michael Kostis are asked about him, it’s his passion and kind heart that are brought up again and again.

Nathan Lax, junior political science major, said he had first met Kostis through Young Democratic Socialists of America in September 2022. He said he remembers being amazed by Kostis and thinks finding someone like him is rare.

“He is one of the most caring people I know, and like about the things that are important, there are people that you know, get caught up in the d

In the upstairs of UCF’s Robinson Observatory, Vincent Miller said he stood atop a rolling ladder and watched as a mobile crane lifted telescope pieces 30 feet above the open observatory dome.

“I've never really been up in that part of the observatory before, and I just wanted to see how it worked,” said Miller, junior photonic science and engineering major. “I had never seen a big observatory telescope like that either.”

Miller is one of the student volunteers who helped with the installation

Olivia Solomon was a high school reporter when there was a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, 2018.

Solomon said she attended high school in Miami, nearly an hour and a quarter away from Parkland. She said she recalls being asked to write a breaking news article as the story was developing.

“I got a text from my editor saying, ‘Hey there's an active school shooting in Broward County.’" Solomon said. “I googled it, and when Marjory Stoneman Douglas had

UCF ranked No. 1 in a three-way tie for the nation’s best online psychology bachelor's degree program, according to rankings released by U.S. News & World Report on Jan. 24.

The UCF online psychology program ranked sixth last year in the same U.S. News & World Report program evaluation. Dr. Maggy Tomova, College of Sciences dean, said in an email statement to the College of Sciences student body that this year's rankings are a representation of the hard work that the psychology faculty put in.