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The 12th International Symposium on Superalloys was held September 9-13, 2012, in Seven Springs, PA. The conferences were started in 1968 and have been held every 4 years to bring together researchers, producers, and users of high-strength, high-temperature alloys. There were approximately 400 attendees representing 20 different countries. Of these 400 attendees, 11 were current […]

Franky So, Ph.D., has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) for his contributions to the development of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic photovoltaics.

Susan Sinnott, Ph.D., has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for her significant contributions to developing and applying atomistic methods to investigate the physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials, material surfaces and interfaces.

Congratulations to recent MSE graduate Abhijit Pramanick, Ph.D., for receiving the Edward C. Henry Best Paper award from the Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society. Pramanick and his coauthors, including Juan C. Nino, Ph.D., and Jacob L. Jones, Ph.D., were selected as the sole recipients of this award for their paper Origins of Electro-Mechanical […]

Dr. Michele Manuel has been awarded the NASA Early Career Grant that funds research in strategic and priority areas as identified by NASA’s Space Technology Roadmap and the National Research Council. Concepts funded include those that are considered “unique, disruptive or transformational space technologies.” Dr. Manuel was one of 10 faculty selected for this competitive […]

Henry Sodano, Ph.D., has been awarded the American Society for Composites 2012 Young Composites Researcher Award. The Young Composites Researcher Award is given to a member of the composites community who, early in their career, has significantly impacted the science and technology of composite materials through a sustained research effort. Sodano has focused on developing […]

On Sunday, May 20, 2012, Dr. Tony Brennan was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the State University of New York (SUNY). He accepted the degree and was the featured speaker at the Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony at SUNY Potsdam, his alma mater. Dr. Brennan received this prestigious honor in recognition of his successful […]

Trey Davis has recently received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) award. The GRFP is a prestigious award from the National Science Foundation to those graduate students who have demonstrated the potential for significant achievements in science and engineering research. Davis was awarded partly based on his research proposal on glass-ceramic composites […]

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 […]