Category Archives: Faculty News

Cameron Ford joins the I-Corps program executive committee – to help provide UCF scientists and researchers the program, process, and resources to investigate and validate the commercialization of their science.

“The Starter Lab is a great place for students to collaborate with others and ‘noodle’ with preliminary innovation and new venture ideas. We intend for the Starter Lab to be a community center for student starters from all disciplines…”

With its unveiling last week of an impressive cast list of 22 — flush with money, fame and head office experience both in sports and in Hollywood — who will lead the newly created Los Angeles FC, Major League Soccer took its latest confident step forward.

Major League Soccer’s recent announcement to expand to 22 teams with the addition of a second team in Los Angeles starting in 2017 is a clear sign that the fledgling league seeks to own a strong presence in top media markets.

The San Francisco Giants may have won this year’s World Series, but the Kansas City Royals don’t leave empty-handed. Bolstered by their first playoff run in three decades and a promising young roster, the Royals should see major increases in everything from ticket revenue to corporate sponsorships, experts say.

CSUN Athletics is proud to announce a new partnership with two professors within the College of Business at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Dr. C. Keith Harrison and Scott Bukstein. The two groups will begin a new collaborative project in early November 2014 that will examine the female demographic at CSUN athletic events in […]

UCF College of Business Administration faculty members C. Keith Harrison and Scott Bukstein were instructors for a series of four workshops at the Wharton Sports Business Academy this summer.

CONSIDER THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS. In recent months, the team’s attorneys negotiated contracts to play two seasons at the University’s TCF Bank Stadium, fielded concerns that its new stadium’s glass walls might endanger migratory birds, averted a wrongful dismissal lawsuit by ex-punter Chris Kluwe, and dealt with child abuse allegations involving running back Adrian Peterson.

On a pleasant midsummer night, with the Pirates continuing their push for a National League division title less than 2 miles away, more than 7,000 people sat inside Consol Energy Center to watch the Power suffer the third-most-lopsided defeat in Arena Football League history.

A planned renovation at Daytona International Speedway will rocket the track forward in terms of fan comfort and amenities, but the $375-$400 million project also places the racing venue in the middle of a fast-growing trend changing the way Americans experience professional sports.