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Jack Mecholsky, Ph.D., was selected for the 2014 William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award from the Florida Education Fund (FEF). He received the award at a special ceremony during the Annual McKnight Doctoral Fellows Conference in Tampa, Florida, on November 9, 2014. The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program is designed to address the underrepresentation of African […]

Aaron Lind, a Ph.D. graduate student working with Kevin Jones, Ph.D., won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 20th International Conference on Ion Implantation Technology. The conference was held in Portland, Oregon, in July 2014. Aaron’s talk was entitled “Effect of Al, P and Ar Co-Implantation on Si Activation in InGaAs.”

Claudia Sotomayor graduated with a BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering, focusing on semiconductor physics and learning how chemical and electrical principles fuse together to create modern electronic devices. In the summer of 2011, the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program allowed her to study the synthesis and characterization of geranium nano-crystals […]

Jacob DeWitte is a founder and the CEO of UPower. He graduated with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Florida in 2008 and has been named to the 2014 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the energy sector.  He is currently a nuclear engineering Ph.D. candidate at MIT and an Admiral Hyman […]

The University of Florida won the TMS Materials Bowl, beating 11 other university teams, including the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, in the final round. The competition consisted of a “Jeopardy-style” trivia competition in single elimination rounds. Team members included Glenn Bean, Hunter Henderson, Peter Feldtmann and Steven Chiu. Each team member was awarded $250, […]

Mark Law, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Kevin Jones, Ph.D., received the highest honor from the global industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). The two UF professors were recognized for developing a flexible code in 1990 that modeled semiconductor […]

The Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society has named UF MSE undergraduate student Clayton Cozzan the recipient of the 2013 Lewis C. Hoffman Scholarship Award. Cozzan was selected “in recognition of his excellence in the classroom, accompanied by many significant contributions to research, and for his excellent essay titled Creativity Prevails at the Nanoscale: […]

Every year, the American Nuclear Society (ANS) holds a design competition to select the best Student design projects.  A panel of industry judges reviews the submitted projects and selects two undergraduate and two graduate teams to make oral presentations in front of a second panel of Judges at the society’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. […]

The paper from Henry Sodano, Ph.D., demonstrated the growth of vertically aligned arrays of barium titanate nanowires for the first time and showed that the ferroelectric nanowires can act as highly accurate dynamics stress sensors or, specifically, accelerometers. The results also show that the barium titanate nanowires can improve more than an order of magnitude […]