Category: Honors and Awards

ASM International, a professional organization for materials scientists and engineers, has announced that its Board of Trustees has elected Michele Manuel, Ph.D., to become an ASM Fellow, citing her “outstanding leadership and technical contributions in thermodynamics-based alloy design and its associated methods as applied to light metals.” The honor will be conferred at the ASM […]

Congratulations to the winners of Student Poster Session! With more than 160 accepted posters, NACE had the largest turnout of students ever. There were three winners in the categories of Mars Fontana (corrosion engineering), Harvey Herro (applied corrosion technology), and Marcel Pourbaix (corrosion science), along with the best undergraduate poster. Please help us congratulate the […]

University of Florida endowed professor Juan Claudio Nino, Ph.D., has been awarded a 2017-2018 Jefferson Science Fellowship by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Nino is one of 14 academic scientists, engineers and physicians who were selected from institutions of higher learning from around the country this year. Within the U.S. Department of […]

Dr. Chris Santana has been awarded the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award. Santana graduated with multiple degrees from the University of Florida, entering the Department of Materials Science & Engineering in 1987 and continued with the program until 1996 after completing his Ph.D. Santana studied the nucleation and growth of Aluminum […]

Dr. Yong Yang has received his tenure and is promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Michele Manuel received her promotion to Professor. Dr. Kevin Jones received the Distinguished Professor Award.

The University of Florida honors faculty who bring distinction to the university through their outstanding commitment to teaching, scholarship, service, research and creative activity. Each year, the Provost’s Office presents the Excellence Awards for Assistant Professors, which are focused on junior faculty and recognize excellence in research. Each award comes with a one-time allocation of […]

MSE Junior Brittani Maskley won the Student Undergraduate Poster Award at The Minerals, Materials, and Mining Society (TMS) annual symposium held February 14-18, 2016, in Nashville, TN. Maskley is part of the University Scholars Program and Research Experience in Materials program.

President Obama Honors Extraordinary Early-Career Scientists President Obama today named 105** researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The winners will receive their awards at a […]

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 […]

Congratulations to Yash Shah, an MSE doctoral student studying under Jon Dobson, Ph.D., and Kyle Allen, Ph.D. from BME. Shah’s poster presentation entitled “Detection of Synovial Fluid Degradation Through Magnetic Particle Collection” was judged to be one of five Biomedical Engineering Society 2015 Poster Award Winners. His poster was chosen from more than 2,000 entries […]