Category: Faculty

Jon Dobson, Ph.D., has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is being honored by AAAS for “outstanding contributions to the development of magnetic micro- and nanoparticle-based technologies in cell engineering, regenerative medicine and gene transfection.” Dobson has developed novel technologies for magnetic targeting and remote activation […]

Published on December 18th, 2015 | By: Eileen De Guire It is with great sadness that we share the news that Larry Hench, ACerS Distinguished Life Member and Fellow, lost his battle with cancer on Wednesday, Dec. 16. He turned 77 in November. In his letter nominating Hench for Distinguished Life Member, Gary Messing says […]

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 materials growth using the chemical beam epitaxy method. Dr. Abernathy joins a number of UF […]

Congratulations to Josephine Allen, Ph.D., for receiving the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, entitled “CAREER: Biomolecular Engineering Approach to Controlling Cell Processes”. In this work, Allen focuses on developing strategies to control cellular functions, which is critical in the field of tissue engineering. Controlling cellular processes is often achieved through activating receptor proteins on the […]

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 9, 2014. The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program is designed to address the underrepresentation of African […]

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 two UF professors were recognized for developing a flexible code in 1990 that modeled semiconductor […]

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 also show that the barium titanate nanowires can improve more than an order of magnitude […]

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 to 2013 at the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of […]

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.

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 to develop BiI3 Gamma-Ray spectrometers for nuclear material safeguarding. UF is also a collaborator in […]