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Emilee Howard picked up a basketball as a small 2-year-old and never put it down. Now, 30-year-old Howard is traveling across the country to officiate national sports tournaments.As UCF’s Intramural Sports and RWC Park coordinator, Howard does more than just coordinate programs. She is also committed to student development. From painting the fields of the RWC Park to training students how to officiate, she goes above and beyond.
“I'm someone that I'm willing to do whatever you guys need...

A fourteen-year-old Avery Hart cried while listening to the music from online battle game "League of Legends", a moment that led her into video gaming and ultimately would led her on a path toward leadership.Hart is a project management graduate student at the UCF Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) completing her capstone game “Crimson Knight.” She is the project lead for “Squinky Studios” which is a team of 18 other graduate students working together to create and finish a game ov...

Local, family-owned pharmacy goes beyond filling prescriptions and contributes to the community through customer service. In 2022, shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic, 64-year-old Reidy Williams was denied his wife’s medication at a chain pharmacy.


Living in Geneva, Florida, Williams and his wife, who has breast cancer, were searching for an alternative remedy to treat the cancer. After doing their research, they found a small study in Europe using the medication Ivermectin.


Upon getting a...

Fans lined up excitedly outside The Good Pour in College Park to meet WWE wrestler Randy Orton last Friday afternoon. 
The Good Pour, a wine and spirits store, hosted an exclusive meetup with Orton where fans got the chance to purchase a signed bottle of Fireball’s new Blazin’ Apple Whiskey and take a picture with him. This event marks the first time The Good Pour in College Park had a celebrity bottle-signing experience.
“It makes it more intimate, more special,” WWE fan Katie Cox, 44, said. “I...

During their lunch period, the entire student body was able to participate in physical tests, which included speed, acceleration and jumping skills, to receive an official Madden rating from EA’s Madden rating adjusters.
“We’re part of the community,” said Seann Graddy, the vice president and head of production at EA. “We want to make sure that we’re doing things that make this a healthy, vibrant com...

Tears welled up in Kelly Strom's eyes as she acted as a movie star with lupus during one of UCF's Mediation Team tournaments last year. Strom, senior legal studies major, played the role of a client who was being defamed for using drugs when she was taking medication for her illness. She won that round of the tournament because of the act she pulled off, which she said was the most rewarding experience. Strom has been the Mediation Team's president since August 2023.The Mediation Team gives down...

The engineering building was filled with the sounds of laptop keyboards clicking because of the first Knight Hacks hackathon UCF has hosted since 2019.Knight Hacks, a computer science based club, organized this year's hackathon where students from UCF and around the country, had 36 hours to code anything they wanted from Oct. 6 to Oct. 8, said Mark Bruckert, Knight Hacks vice president.
“It's been an experience for us trying to prepare for it,” Bruckert said.Knight Hack's officers tried...