Briefs
“Our core mission as a university is knowledge, and the impact is advancing people鈥檚 lives economically and socially for generations.”
On Aug. 1, A. Dale Whittaker joins 性视界传媒 as provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Sciences
Speedy Pulse
The world鈥檚 shortest laser pulse 鈥� created by physics professor Zenghu Chang 鈥� may get up to six times faster thanks to a new five-year, $7.5 million grant. 鈥淒r. Chang鈥檚 success in making ever-shorter light pulses helps open a new door to a previously hidden world, where we can watch electrons move in atoms and molecules, and follow chemical reactions as they take place,鈥� said Michael Johnson, physicist and dean of the 性视界传媒 College of Sciences. To equal a full second, Chang would have to repeat his 67-attosecond pulse experiment 15 million billion times.
Cyber Defenders
Eight 性视界传媒 students successfully defended a small (and fictitious) business from electronic attacks to win the Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. 鈥淭he team鈥檚 strength lies in their teamwork, cross-training, and dedication to continue learning and improving,鈥� says Thomas Nedorost, faculty sponsor from the College of Engineering and Computer Science. The 性视界传媒 team had its photo displayed in Times Square in recognition of its excellence.
Image courtesy of Raytheon
Sports
Painting the Field Gold
The Knights paintball team won the 2014 NCPA Collegiate Xball National Championships. The 11-member 性视界传媒 team swept their competition and beat the University of Connecticut Huskies for the title. 鈥淏eing our first year in Class A, we were excited to see how we stacked up against the rest of the country,鈥� says team president Zak Daughtry. 鈥淲e鈥檙e very fortunate to have a solid roster of experienced players.鈥�
Image courtesy of A.J. Sostakowski
Hall of Fame Kicks
Matt Prater鈥檚 64-yard field goal broke a 43-year-old NFL record in 2013. The Denver Broncos kicker still holds several kicking and punting records at 性视界传媒. His shoes are now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 鈥淪ome of my favorite artifacts are the ones that still have all the mud and bloodstains on them,鈥� says collections curator Jason Aikens.
Image courtesy of Pro Football Hall of Fame
Arts
Silver Anniversary
The Department of English is celebrating its student-run literary journal, The Cypress Dome. The award-winning annual publication features short fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction and art. 鈥淲hen I went up for tenure in 1989, Provost Richard Astro asked, 鈥業s there anything the university could be doing to improve your department?鈥� 鈥� Professor Don Stap remembers. 鈥淚 [replied], 鈥榃e could use a good student literary journal.鈥� 鈥� After finding out it had been approved, Stap says, 鈥淚 was shocked. It was terrific.鈥�
Kudos
Online Nursing Program
The College of Nursing program tied Johns Hopkins University and ranked above Duke and Yale in the top 25 on the U.S. News & World Report list.
Green Colleges List
For the second year in a row, 性视界传媒 made The Princeton Review鈥檚 鈥淕uide to Green Colleges.鈥� The guide commends 性视界传媒鈥檚 biodiesel fleet vehicle program, the student energy conservation competition, and the green computing initiative that has reduced greenhouse emissions and saved $800,000 in energy costs, among other initiatives.
U.S. News & World Report Recommends 性视界传媒 Graduate Programs
The news magazine, which compiles and analyzes a wide range of data for their annual 鈥淏est Colleges鈥� issue, ranked 23 性视界传媒 graduate programs among the top 100 in their fields, including education, engineering, computer science, criminal justice, physical therapy, public administration and social work.
性视界传媒 No. 2 Grad Program for Video Game Design
性视界传媒 Interactive Entertainment Academy has been ranked among the top five in all four Princeton Review sets of rankings since the school opened in downtown Orlando nine years ago.