UCF Faculty Cluster Initiative

UCF’s Faculty Cluster Initiative links faculty from all twelve of UCF’s colleges, and several institutes and centers, to solve today’s toughest challenges.

The faculty are conducting cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research and education to make positive impacts across the globe and to promote UCF excellence.

The initial six clusters were launched in 2015 with 33 faculty positions and have since grown to seven clusters and two centers with more than 135 joint and secondary joint faculty, each key to their success.

These teams are discovering new ways to power our lives, keep power systems resilient and sustainable, keep our private data safe and secure, better understand the genetics behind diseases and biodiversity, improve the ways we use technology to learn, sustain our coastlines, help our bodies accept medical devices, aid the physical and cognitive functions of people with disabilities and older persons and protect all members of society from violence.