The UF Bladesmithing Team took second place at the March 2015 TMS Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The first ever competition consisted of 19 student teams from throughout the world to produce a knife or sword blade using traditional blacksmithing techniques.… Read More
Alison Trachet, a Ph.D. candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering department and working under the supervision of Prof. Ghatu Subhash of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Student Award to Austria. The award letter reads… Read More
Dr. Cammy Abernathy, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Dean of the University of Florida’s College of Engineering, has been recognized as a 2015 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for contributions to the development of compound semiconductor… Read More
The faculty and staff of the Materials Science and Engineering department look forward to getting to know all of our prospective graduate students and introducing you to everything the University of Florida has to offer. Our Spring Visit this year… Read More
1st prize in the Article Papers category Taili T. Thula, Felicia Svedlund, Douglas E. Rodriguez, Jacob Podschun, Laura Pendi and Laurie B. Gower: Mimicking the Nanostructure of Bone: Comparison of Polymeric Process-Directing Agents, Polymers, 2011, 3(1), 10-35 doi:10.3390/polym3010010 Available online:… Read More
FEATURING Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Karp, Ph.D. – Associate Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Principal Faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and affiliate faculty at MIT
Professor Kevin W. Powers passed away on January 15, 2015. He was 63. Dr. Powers was the site director of the National Science Foundation’s Center for Particulate and Surfactant Systems (CPaSS) at UF, and the associate director for the… Read More
January 2015 Congratulations to Dr. Josephine Allen for receiving the National Science Foundation CAREER award, entitled “CAREER: Biomolecular Engineering Approach to Controlling Cell Processes”. In this work, Dr. Allen focusses on developing strategies to control cellular functions, which is critical… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Jon Dobson who was just elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). This is a distinct honor that is awarded to the upper 2% of all bioengineers who have excelled in the biomedical and… Read More
Dr. Jack Mecholsky was selected for the 2014 William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award from the Florida Education Fund (FEF). He received the award at a special ceremony during the Annual McKnight Doctoral Fellows Conference in Tampa, Florida, on November… Read More