The taskforce of healthcare workers battling COVID-19 got a much-needed boost with the addition of 137 newly trained physicians who are ready to enter practice. Residents and fellows from the UCF-HCA Healthcare graduate medical education partnership graduated recently and are joining hospitals across Florida and the nation, entering private practice or advancing to additional … [Read more...]
This Is What Love Directs Us to Do
UCF medical students Lake Lindo and Joshua Salzman have known each other since kindergarten; they grew up together in Orlando and played YMCA basketball together. And recently, Lindo, who is black, and Salzman, who is white, knelt next to each other on the College of Medicine’s green for eight minutes and 46 seconds to honor the life of George Floyd and protest police … [Read more...]
Nobel Notable of Laureate Park: Roger Martin du Gard, Gallic Wordsmith
With this article, we continue our series of columns dedicated to celebrating the lives of the Nobel Prize winners honored by the names of the 125 streets in Laureate Park. I wonder if any homeowner on Dugard Court has ever read anything written by the French author Roger Martin du Gard? Or for that matter, anyone in Lake Nona or Orlando or even all of Florida? … [Read more...]
UCF Scientists Seek Novel Material to Kill COVID-19
Masks that protect doctors and nurses from COVID-19 only block the virus before it reaches their faces, but UCF researchers are working to create a protective coating that would include a novel mask material that would catch the virus and kill it within seconds. Sudipta Seal, an engineer specializing in material science and nanotechnology, initiated this project … [Read more...]
Nobel Notable of Laureate Park: Gertrude Elion, Rational Drug Designer, or The Pharmacological Phenomenon
With this article, we continue our series of columns dedicated to celebrating the lives of the Nobel Prize winners whose names grace the 125 streets of Laureate Park. Dr. Otto Phanstiel, professor of medical education at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine, contributed to this article. Women are not supposed to win Nobel Prizes for science. Or at least … [Read more...]
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