Category: News

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 […]

Congratulations to Dr. Antonio Webb and Dr. Josephine Allen for receiving an NIH R01 grant from the National Heart Lung Blood Institute.  The award, entitled “Nanocomposite drug-eluting stents for inhibition of restenosis and thrombosis,” will provide $1.8 million in support to their research groups over the next 5 years.  In this work, Webb and Allen […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. The members of the team were Justin Dansbury, Mathew Wener, Daniel Machado, Dean Sage, and Rachel […]

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 “I am delighted to inform you that you have been selected for a 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. […]

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 […]

  Professor Kevin W. Powers passed away on January 15, 2015. He was 63. Dr. Powers was the site director of the National Science Foundation’s Center for Particulate and Surfactant Systems (CPaSS) at UF, and the associate director for the R&D facilities at UF’s Particle Engineering Research Center (PERC). He also taught particle technology, thermodynamics, […]