S. degrees in curriculum and instruction or educational leadership. S. degree is also offered in school psychology. The Ph.D. is offered in business administration, curriculum and instruction, and public affairs. Research Facilities UCF's research in optics and lasers, computer and simulation technologies, and microelectronics and materials is known around the world. In 1997 UCF and the National Institute of Justice joined to establish the National Center for Forensic Science, the nation's first research center dedicated to combatting terrorism and bomb attacks.
Research facilities are also extensive in other areas.
In the computer sciences, students and researchers have access to more than 1,000 microcomputers, a NeXT computer, an image processor, graphics terminals, and an entire lab devoted to computer-based graphics. Buttressing UCF's computer network is the parallel processing Intel supercomputer once used by the U.S. Navy. The chemistry department has access to laboratory instrumentation and scale-up and industrial control equipment. A fully equipped instrumental biofeedback research laboratory and psychological testing laboratory as well as physiological research laboratories and communicative disorders facilities are available for use in that field. Well-equipped laboratories are also available in the biological sciences, as are a greenhouse, an extensive herbarium, a vertebrate collection, and outstanding inland and coastal natural resources for fieldwork.