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The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) awarded its 2012 Best Conference Paper to the University of Florida Association of Cuban Student Engineers team. Alex L. Arias (Materials Eng.), Tony Diaz (Mechanical/Aerospace Eng.), Jhon Cores (Chemical Eng.), and Will Rodriguez (Electrical Eng.) were awarded for their joint paper entitled “Evaluation and Design […]

A team of UF Materials Science & Engineering faculty, including Kevin Jones, Ph.D., Jack Mecholsky, Ph.D., and Jerry Bourne, Ph.D., co-authored a recent publication verifying the earliest example of Ice Age art discovered in the Americas. The fossilized bone fragment, discovered in South Florida, has an engraving of a mammoth or mastodon and is believed […]

NOVA’s series “Making Stuff: Smarter” highlighted the research of Anthony Brennan, Ph.D., Margaret A. Ross Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Brennan has been investigating the thermodynamics of cell adhesion to materials with a special focus on the effects of surface topography. One technology from his research group, Sharklet, is a bioinspired surface texture with […]

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 programs in 62 different research fields at these universities. The summation statistics confirm the Materials […]

The long-term, multidisciplinary research into the role of magnetite and iron oxide formation in neurodegenerative diseases 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 as a collaborative effort with Chris Batich (MSE) leading tissue preparation efforts, Mark Davidson (MSE and […]