Biomaterials Day 2016
March 11, 20168:00a- 4:00pReitz Union, Grand BallroomGainesville, Florida Plenary Speakers: Barbara Boyan, PhDVirginia Commonwealth UniversityBiomedical Engineering Kevin Healy, PhDUniversity of California- BerkeleyMaterial Science and Engineering Adam Katz, MDUniversity of FloridaSurgery Candan Tamerler, PhDUniversity of KansasMechanical Engineering Keynote: Steven Little, PhDUniversity… Read More
Larry Hench—inventor of Bioglass and children’s author—dies at age 77
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… Read More
Student Neil MacInnes to Serve as Gators’ Backup
By SCOTT CARTER GatorZone.com Senior Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Neil MacInnes had to change his plans for Friday night. The house party MacInnes and a couple of friends scheduled will go on, but MacInnes won’t be there. He’ll be in… Read More
Congratulations Yash Shah, Biomedical Engineering Society 2015 Poster Award Winner
Congratulations to Yash Shah, a new MSE doctoral student working with Jon Dobson and Kyle Allen (BME)! Yash’s poster presentation entitled “Detection of Synovial Fluid Degradation Through Magnetic Particle Collection” was judged to be one of the five Biomedical Engineering… Read More
2015 Seminar Speakers
UF Bladesmithing Team took second place
The UF Bladesmithing Team took second place at the March 2015 TMS Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The first ever competition consisted of 19 student teams from throughout the world to produce a knife or sword blade using traditional blacksmithing techniques.… Read More
PhD Student Receives Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Austria
Alison Trachet, a Ph.D. candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering department and working under the supervision of Prof. Ghatu Subhash of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Student Award to Austria. The award letter reads… Read More
Dr. Cammy Abernathy has been recognized as a 2015 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS)
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… Read More
Gower’s Group Wins
1st prize in the Article Papers category Taili T. Thula, Felicia Svedlund, Douglas E. Rodriguez, Jacob Podschun, Laura Pendi and Laurie B. Gower: Mimicking the Nanostructure of Bone: Comparison of Polymeric Process-Directing Agents, Polymers, 2011, 3(1), 10-35 doi:10.3390/polym3010010 Available online:… Read More