Amy Diaz

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AT&T's new 5G network brings improved coverage at FBC Mortgage Stadium

Fans attending Saturday's home game may notice something different when watching the game: 5G coverage inside the bounce house.

Large-level stadiums like Hard Rock and Bank of America have started installing 5G networks, according to the NFL communications website.

David Hansen, UCF senior executive associate athletics director and chief operating officer, said this new feature puts the FBC Mortgage stadium on a short list of stadiums that can offer that.

"That's a rare thing, that's a high-l

From 'astronautas' to cosmonauts, space enthusiasm is a global phenomenon

Late last year, hundreds of thousands of spectators lined up on the shores of Florida's space coast under a dark and starry sky, waiting for the historic Artemis I mission to launch. The mission would send an uncrewed spacecraft to the moon and back -- the first time a human capsule would leave low-Earth orbit in more than a half century. Despite the launch carrying no crew, spectators had been waiting for hours, bringing along their camping gear as they watched NASA take the first step towards

‘Opportunity for a better life:’ UCF students share emotional trip to US-Mexico Border

Instead of vacationing or partying, a group of students from the University of Central Florida set out for the U.S.-Mexico border this summer.

They wanted to learn more about the people working to call America home and bring those stories back to students at UCF.

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Amy Diaz and Ian Rodriguez both said they brought a unique perspective to the trip.

“Even though we are in Florida and we are far away from the border we have

UCF Journalism Instructor and Student Cover Immigration Along U.S./Mexico Border

Nicholson School senior journalism instructor Rick Brunson was standing alone in a supply room for babies at Border Servant Corps, a faith-based facility that serves refugees and asylum seekers in Las Cruces, New Mexico, near the U.S./Mexico border – when he lost it.

Seeing the rows of bins of tiny baby bottles, diapers and little toddler shoes that would feed, cover and shod children who had accompanied their parents on the treacherous 2,400-mile journey to get to this spot of the Promised Lan