Category: Academics

Fatmata Barrie, a Ph.D. candidate studying under Michele Manuel, Ph.D., has been awarded a research grant through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Following a 3-month language study program in Indonesia, Barrie will be conducting research there for 10 months investigating bamboo-reinforced concrete for improved structural resistance to earthquake damage. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards […]

Ph.D. candidate Shruti Banavara Seshadri, studying under Jacob Jones, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2012 Alec Courtelis Award, a prestigious University of Florida award given to selected international students in recognition of academic excellence and outstanding contribution to the university and community. Seshadri was one of only three students chosen for this award. Song Chen, […]

Congratulations to recent MSE graduate Abhijit Pramanick, Ph.D., for receiving the Edward C. Henry Best Paper award from the Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society. Pramanick and his coauthors, including Juan C. Nino, Ph.D., and Jacob L. Jones, Ph.D., were selected as the sole recipients of this award for their paper Origins of Electro-Mechanical […]

Trey Davis has recently received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) award. The GRFP is a prestigious award from the National Science Foundation to those graduate students who have demonstrated the potential for significant achievements in science and engineering research. Davis was awarded partly based on his research proposal on glass-ceramic composites […]

The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) awarded its 2012 Best Conference Paper to the University of Florida Association of Cuban Student Engineers team. Alex L. Arias (Materials Eng.), Tony Diaz (Mechanical/Aerospace Eng.), Jhon Cores (Chemical Eng.), and Will Rodriguez (Electrical Eng.) were awarded for their joint paper entitled “Evaluation and Design […]

The National Research Council (NRC), an arm of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Science, has released an eagerly-anticipated report on the doctoral programs at 212 US universities. The report provides a complex and many-faceted analysis of programs in 62 different research fields at these universities. The summation statistics confirm the Materials […]