Jack Mecholsky, Ph.D., 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
Dr. Kevin Jones receives the highest honor from SEMI
Mark Law, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Kevin Jones, Ph.D., received the highest honor from the global industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). The… Read More
Sodano’s High-sensitivity Accelerometer Research Published in Nature Communications
The paper from Henry Sodano, Ph.D., demonstrated the growth of vertically aligned arrays of barium titanate nanowires for the first time and showed that the ferroelectric nanowires can act as highly accurate dynamics stress sensors or, specifically, accelerometers. The results… Read More
Dr. Andreas Enqvist joins UF MSE as Assistant Professor in Nuclear Engineering
Andreas Enqvist, Ph.D., received a Master of Science in physics at Gothenburg University, Sweden and his doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) in 2010. Dr. Enqvist worked as a postdoc and assistant research scientist from 2010… Read More
UF receives $1.6M award from DTRA to develop low-cost radiation detectors
James Baciak, Ph.D., Jiangeng Xue, Ph.D., and Juan Nino, Ph.D., received a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) award for $1.6 Million to develop organic photodiodes as low-cost, radiation-resistant alternatives to traditional photomultiplier tubes for next-generation gamma-ray spectrometers.
UF receives $1.8M from DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy for R&D
Researchers in the Nuclear Engineering Program at the UF Department of Materials Science & Engineering have received Department of Energy University Program grants for conducting research to mitigate the Fuel Cladding Chemical Interactions (FCCI) in a sodium-cooled fast reactor and… Read More
Dr. Michele Manuel Wins TMS Early Career Award
Michele Manuel, Ph.D., has won the TMS Early Career Award for 2014. This award recognizes an assistant professor for his or her accomplishments that have advanced the academic institution where employed and for abilities to broaden the technological profile of… Read More
Dr. Michele Manuel Awarded the AVS Recognition in Leadership
The AVS States the purpose of this recognition is “… to recognize individuals who not only excel in science and/or engineering, but who also, through mentoring, have enhanced the careers of future generations who might not otherwise have considered or… Read More
Dr. Franky So Selected as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
Franky So, Ph.D., has been selected as an IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer for his contributions to organic electronics. Only six scientists around the world received this honor.
Michele Manuel Receives 2013 Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers
Michele Manuel, Ph.D., was awarded the 2013 Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers This award, given by ASM, was established in 1952 to recognize early career educators in the fields of materials science, materials engineering, design and processing for their… Read More