Category: Honors and Awards

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 […]

Kevin Jones, Distinguished Professor and the Frederick N. Rhines Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, received the 2019 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. Now in its eighth year, the honor recognizes one tenured, full professor faculty member from each of the 14 Southeastern Conference universities with a history of outstanding teaching combined with a nationally and/or […]

UF’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering student team brought the TMS 2019 Grand Prize home from San Antonio, Texas, receiving the TMS-Wadsworth-Sherby Bladesmithing Grand Prize Medal and a $2,000 cash prize in recognition of their entry “Decapigator.” The biennial competition challenges student teams from around the world to produce a knife or sword blade […]

The DTRA selects engineering and science-based researchers whose work shows promise in its mission to counter the development and use of weapons of mass destruction.

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine recently awarded Frank J. Bova, Ph.D., the Edith Quimby Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in radiosurgery. The award is given to members of the association who have made significant contributions to medical physics throughout their careers. Bova received his doctoral degree in Nuclear Engineering Sciences with a […]

Materials Science and Engineering Professor Wolfgang Sigmund, Ph.D., has been elected into the European Union Academy of Sciences. Sigmund earned his Ph.D. from Johannes Gutenberg University. He has been a professor at the University of Florida since 1999. His research focuses on semiconductor oxides for energy harvesting and storage, photocatalysis and photolysis, electrodes for secondary […]

University of Florida Materials Science and Engineering Professor Juan Claudio Nino was honored as a distinguished speaker for the Richard E. Tressler Lectures in Materials at Pennsylvania State University.

Professor Brennan is being honored for his inventions that led to the Sharklet microtopography which was inspired by biomimicry.

Watch the video to learn more about Rain Neuromorphics, a company using AI technology developed at UF and started by MSE Professor Juan Nino and UF Alum Jack Kendall.