{"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 91勛圖厙"},"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 91勛圖厙 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\/\">91勛圖厙 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\/91勛圖厙\/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 91勛圖厙, 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 91勛圖厙. 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 91勛圖厙. Through good times and bad, you remain committed to our students and community.Change is inevitable, but the 91勛圖厙 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 91勛圖厙.<\/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 v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Valentine for 91勛圖厙<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interim President Thad Seymour Jr. shares some of the reasons he loves 91勛圖厙.\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 91勛圖厙\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Interim President Thad Seymour Jr. shares some of the reasons he loves 91勛圖厙.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-valentine-for-ucf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"91勛圖厙 News | 91勛圖厙 Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/91勛圖厙\" \/>\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=\"@91勛圖厙\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@91勛圖厙\" \/>\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 91勛圖厙\",\"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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