PhD student Krishna Nittala has recently been selected to receive a 2011 Engineering Outstanding International Student Award by the University of Florida International Center (UFIC). Krishna will receive the award at UFIC Awards Ceremony on November 17. Krishna has been… Read More
Fast Pitch (start-up business plan short presentation) organized by GAIN
Professor Rolf Hummel, Thierry Dubroca (PostDoc) and student Max Lemaitre are moving along with developing a new method to detect explosives for airport security, right here in the MSE department. On Thursday August 18th, Dr Dubroca won the Fast Pitch… Read More
UF MSE faculty help verify the First Ice Age Art in the Americas
A team of Materials Faculty including Profs. Kevin Jones, Jack Mecholsky and Dr. Jerry Bourne co-authored a recent publication verifying the first example of Ice Age Art discovered in the Americas. The bone fragment was discovered in South Florida. On… Read More
NOVA’s series “Making Stuff: Smarter”
NOVA’s series “Making Stuff: Smarter” highlighted the research of Professor Anthony Brennan, Margaret A. Ross Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Prof. Brennan has been investigating the thermodynamics of cell adhesion to materials with a special focus on the effects… Read More
UF Materials Science and Engineering Ranked #2 in US
The National Research Council (NRC), an arm of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Science, has released an eagerly-anticipated report on the doctoral programs at 212 US universities. The report provides a complex and many-faceted analysis of… Read More
Parkinson’s Research Featured In Nature Outlook
The long term, multidisciplinary research into the role of magnetite, and iron oxide, formation in neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s has been featured in a Nature Outlook article on biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease. This research began in 1999… Read More