![]() ![]() ![]() How to Ace the Test of Time Learn what is essential to graceful aging - no matter how old you are. Why I Fight for Hostages A UCF grad shares how her father’s kidnapping drives her to help others. Deep Dive UCF researchers are exploring our oceans to better understand dangerous diseases found below - and possible cures. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital are partnering to provide low-cost mobility solutions for children with disabilities. But recognizing and challenging structural “whiteness” is the key to equity - and excellence. What Is White Privilege? It’s not about you as an individual, even if you benefit from it. Here’s how UCF students and researchers are using it to help everyone from athletes to the elderly. Body Check This machine can scan your body in under five minutes and provide your precise body fat percentage. The Pope’s Meteor Man As curator of the Vatican’s meteorite collection, Robert Macke ’10PhD combines science and faith to explore age-old questions of how and why we are here. Custom Solar Sculpture Built by UCF Students UCF art and engineering students collaborated to create a new solar-powered sculpture at Exploria Stadium that infuses energy back into the city’s power grid. To Protect and Serve How a UCF graduate and former police officer is advocating for public service reform. Pandemic Pivot? Now may be the time to change careers. Lighting the Way Professor Peter Delfyett’s latest honor recognizes his influential career and opens doors for the STEM community at UCF. Course Correction UCF researchers are working to make driving safer, smarter and more sustainable for everyone on the road. (monogenism vs polygenism) (how eugenic thinking determined american intelligence at times of "stock" immigration) Nativism* and The concern about the new and objectionable stock of immi-grants, as opposed to "native," more desirable immigrants of an earlier epoch, was the crux of nativism, the movement to protect and preserve indigenous land or culture from the allegedly dangerous and polluting effects of new immigrants.Blastoff from the Bounce House How a photograph of a rocket launch captured from UCF’s football stadium landed among Time magazine’s top 100 photos of 2020. ![]() Eugenics* (well born) the idea each race had separate package of social and psychological traits transmitted through bloodlines. 18th century thinkers popularized physiognomy, the claim that outside appearance dictates inner morale and character( ie, Light skin and small features indicated intellect) and the climate equation Social Darwinism and the "survival of the fittest had its roots in the popular belief of climate being the major indicator of one strength and domination. (How europeans established racial superiority and "others" *Natural Varieties of Mankind (Johann Friedrich Blumenbach) (1775) and Phrenology of skulls. Nineteenth-century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race (Europe:South Asia, North Africa and America people / Africa proper: Thick lips, flat nose, black skin and scanty beard / Asia Proper: White skin, broad shoulders, little eyes and no beard / Lapps: Finalnd and Russian small communities, ugly, squat and animal like) Ethnocentrism* evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture. ![]()
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