Category: Honors and Awards

For over 30 years, Kevin Jones, Ph.D., distinguished professor at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE), has taught students not only how to be better engineers, but also how engineering influences the world around them. In 2010 he collaborated with Sophia Acord, Ph.D., associate director of the Center for the Humanities and the […]

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The University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) has named Alumni Professor of Materials Science & Engineering Richard Hennig, Ph.D., a UFRF Professor for 2020-2023. The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields. “Faculty chosen […]

  Kyle Latty, who recently graduated from the University of Florida Nuclear Engineering (NE) Program with a bachelor’s degree, has been awarded a fellowship from the Department of Defense (DOD) Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program. During his sophomore year, Latty joined the research group of Kyle C. Hartig, Ph.D., an assistant […]

Erika Moore, Ph.D., holder of the Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench professorship in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, has been awarded the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) KL2 Career Development Award. “I am beyond enthused to be awarded the KL2 training grant. This award sponsored by the National Institute of Health […]

Emily Kwapis, a Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), has been awarded a fellowship from the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program. Emily graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan with a B.S.E. in Nuclear Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering. She […]

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Bryan Conry, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Conry graduated from Stony Brook University with a double major in Chemical Engineering and Applied Math and was a guest researcher at Brookhaven National Lab’s X-ray synchrotron for a year before […]

Christopher Batich, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, is among the newest inductees into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Dr. Batich was selected for creating a groundbreaking anti-bacterial surface treatment material, commercialized as Bioguard. The material is now being used as an advanced wound […]

Amalie Atassi, Jacob Ewing, Jomary Mercado-Montjito, Abigail Nason and Monica Wall were awarded the fellowship, created to support graduate study in a STEM field. The Department also had three other students, Nick Etrick, Emma Cochran and Chappel Sharock win Honorable Mention. “All of these students deserve recognition for their hard work and dedication to their […]