{"id":106763,"date":"2020-02-13T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=106763"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:09:47","slug":"a-valentine-for-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-valentine-for-ucf\/","title":{"rendered":"A Valentine for Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this place.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few weeks, we&#8217;ve learned of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researcher-finds-new-signal-that-your-breast-cancer-is-growing\/\">a discovery from Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ professor Annette Khaled<\/a> that may help detect cancer cells before they can spread. The Princeton Review named us a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-continues-as-a-best-value-college-for-2020\/\">Best Value College<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-online-programs-rank-among-top-20-in-nation-again\/\">Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Online ranked among the top 20<\/a> in the nation&#8230;again.<\/p>\n<p>Students came together in fellowship for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\/videos\/2782390261994680\">annual Gather luncheon<\/a>, and we celebrate the alumni who founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/start-of-ucfs-black-student-union\/\">Black Student Union 50 years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare that all of this could happen at one time at one place. But at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½, we just call it spring.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why this Valentine&#8217;s Day, I&#8217;m sending a love letter to Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½. To the place, the people and the possibilities. To an institution that has so positively impacted my life, and the lives of thousands of others.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I love this place is because of you, the people of Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½. Through good times and bad, you remain committed to our students and community.Change is inevitable, but the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ we love, and the values we hold dear, will always live on.<\/p>\n<p>With gratitude,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thad Seymour Jr., Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Interim President<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interim President Thad Seymour Jr. shares some of the reasons he loves Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17563],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-106763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","tag-thad-seymour-jr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Valentine for Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interim President Thad Seymour Jr. shares some of the reasons he loves Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-valentine-for-ucf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Valentine for Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Interim President Thad Seymour Jr. shares some of the reasons he loves Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-valentine-for-ucf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ News | Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-13T16:09:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nicole Dudenhoefer &#039;17\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nicole Dudenhoefer &#039;17\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/a-valentine-for-ucf\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/a-valentine-for-ucf\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nicole Dudenhoefer '17\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9d80c5f96623baaf4ec084540ceb2407\"},\"headline\":\"A Valentine for Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-13T16:09:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/a-valentine-for-ucf\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":194,\"keywords\":[\"Thad Seymour Jr.\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; 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