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Marian Summerall
Producer/ReporterMarian is a multimedia journalist at Central Florida Public Media working as a reporter and producer for the 'Are We There Yet?' space podcast. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a bachelor’s degree in English literature and two minors in journalism and mass media communications. Before joining the Central Florida Public Media team, she worked in public radio with NPR’s Next Generation Radio producing a multimedia story on what it means to be a Floridian. Marian was the executive producer on the “Sounds of Central Florida” project which was a partnership between the Nicholson School of Communication and Media and Central Florida Public Media. Aside from radio, Marian was an intern at Oviedo Community News that covers the Oviedo and Winter Springs area. She also covered and reported on the 2022 midterm election for the Orlando Sentinel, Central Florida’s newspaper of record. During her time at UCF, Marian reported and wrote articles published by the campus news site NSM Today and the student magazine Imprint.
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The Pulse Memorial Advisory Committee met for the first time to begin discussions about what a memorial should look like for the 49 people killed in the Pulse shooting.
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Researchers are trying to make a spacesuit that can recycle urine into clean drinking water for astronauts and curiosity accidentally discovered pure sulfur on Mars.
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An outage caused delays and cancellations at the Orlando International Airport and airports around the world. Orlando LYNX systems are also facing technical issues.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District has stepped in to help residents from Daytona Beach with a Flood Risk Management Feasibility Study. The study is dependent on resident input and ideas to help combat flooding in what’s known as the Midtown area.
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A new James Webb Space Telescope image of two galaxies in a cosmic dance was released for the telescope’s two-year anniversary of science operations. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket malfunction resulted in satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, and the rocket grounded.
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To participate in the primary election, voters must register with their county supervisor of elections by July 22. Voters also have until that time to change their party affiliation.
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The deadline to request mail-in ballots for the upcoming primary is August 8, and Brevard and Orange County election leaders are concerned that residents don’t know their requests may have expired following a change in Florida law.
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From the OSIRIS-REx mission, phosphate was found in a sample from the asteroid Bennu, a necessary building block for life to exist here on Earth. Then, as NASA grapples with aging space suits on the International Space Station, efforts to build the next generation of space suits hit a major snag.
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The fourth and final satellite of the GOES-R weather satellite constellation is one step closer to tracking weather from space like never before. Plus, after a year of lost communication, Voyager 1 is back online after engineers delivered a fix 15 million miles away from Earth.
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From 2018 to 2022, Orange County cases have remained fairly steady, but Black and Hispanic or Latino people make up a large percentage of Orange County residents diagnosed with the HIV.
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Scientists are sending instruments to the moon to explore unique domes similar to ones on Earth, but how they were made is a mystery. Plus, one man is trying to save and document moon trees, seedlings sent to orbit the moon that now are scattered across the country.
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will cause sonic booms once it launches, carrying the last satellite from NOAA GOES-U. Once the two boosters land on the Earth’s surface, sonic booms may be heard across Central Florida.