The Nicholson School of Communication will host a film screening of “Pride Denied: Homonationalism and the Future of Queer Politics” on Tuesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in the UCF Live Oak Center. The film tells the story of how corporate sponsors co-opted the concept of LGBTQ pride, and blunted its political edge.

This announcement is to request recommendations to serve as NSC’s representative on COS committee seats to be filled for the 2017-18 academic year. The committees that need new representatives elected are:

1.Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Selection Committee
Eligible to serve – Regular Faculty
Responsibilities:  Selection of Teaching Incentive Award winners.
Term:  1-year

2.Research Incentive Award (RIA) Committee
Eligible to serve – Tenured Faculty
Responsibilities:  Selection of Research Incentive Award and Distinguished Researcher/Rising award winners.
Term:  1-year

3.Sabbatical Committee
Eligible to serve – Tenured Faculty
Responsibilities:  Recommendation of Type 1 Sabbatical applications.
Term:  2-years

4.Research Committee
Eligible to serve – Graduate Faculty
Responsibilities:  Selection of Excellence in Research, Distinguished Researcher, Rising Star, SEED Grant, In-House award winners, and advise college on research matters.
Term:  2-years

Please submit your recommendations to Debbie Doyle by April 14th. Don’t be shy to recommend yourself. 

A vote will take place at April’s faculty meeting for all nominations.

Meeting minutes from the March 20 faculty meeting are now available. Please visit the NSC resource webpage at any time to access the documents.

Meeting minutes from the March 15 chairs and directors meeting are now available. Please visit the NSC resource webpage at any time to access the documents.

This weeks staff luncheon is scheduled to take place from 12 - 1 p.m. in room 228. Please take a moment to take this survey to give your input on the food that should be served.

The UCF office of Women's and Gender Studies asks that all faculty members encourage their students to apply for scholarships available through Women's and Gender Studies. Eligible students are those involved in STEM, LEAD Scholars, HONORS, Advocates on Gender and Women and Women's and Gender Studies minors or certificates.

UCF IT approved the March 2017 Microsoft updates for installation to all College of Sciences computers on Thursday 03/16/17.

This means that all UCFIT COS managed Windows computers should expect to have a required restart as early as Thursday night 03/30/17.

If a computer is powered off by the time the required restart comes around, updates may install immediately the next time the computer is powered on, followed by an automatic restart of the computer.

UCF IT is committed to protecting all personal information. To assist faculty and staff in mitigating the risks to any personal information from cyber threats, such as phishing attempts, UCF IT will be implementing additional myUCF protections beyond the use of username and password.

Beginning Wednesday, April 19, multi-factor authentication (MFA) will be implemented on the myUCF portal when viewing W-2 information or changing or updating direct deposit information.  Multi-factor authentication combines something private (myUCF login and password) with a unique token or a smartphone app. Without the token or app, W-2 or direct deposit information will not be accessible after April 19.

As the implementation date nears, additional information on UCF's multi-factor authentication service will be provided.

In this column, Willard discusses perception and reality as they relate to recent events in Russia and the United States.

Harry Weger celebrates on March 27

David Young celebrates on March 31

Jackie Jessup celebrates on April 2