Category: Research

UF Engineers develop sensors that create their own energy, saving weight and extending the battery life of electric vehicles.

Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. student Charlyne Smith has been awarded a coveted National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She is a 2017 graduate of Coppin State University, earning her bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics. She is a first-year Ph.D. student in the University of Florida’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering. Charlyne was inspired by […]

MSE Professor Dr. Josephine Allen will study the cells back on earth to look for changes as a result of microgravity

Watch the video to learn more about Rain Neuromorphics, a company using AI technology developed at UF and started by MSE Professor Juan Nino and UF Alum Jack Kendall. 

Andrew, an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and her team received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study scalable and high-performance magnetic materials that can be implemented into modern-day devices that would take up less space.  

NASA is collaborating with the University of Florida’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering for its RadSat project. The lab lead by Department Chair Michele Manuel developed a lightweight magnesium alloy.

Congratulations to Josephine Allen, Ph.D., and the Allen Lab for being selected for the Space Research Initiative and the Florida Space Institute to conduct research aboard the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory. The joint UF-CASIS (Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) initiative supports the award to help fund space-related research. Allen is […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding over $82 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards in 28 states. In total, 93 projects were selected to receive funding that will help push innovative nuclear technologies toward commercialization and into the market. These awards provide funding for nuclear energy-related […]

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 […]

Congratulations to Josephine Allen, Ph.D., for receiving the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, entitled “CAREER: Biomolecular Engineering Approach to Controlling Cell Processes”. In this work, Allen focuses on developing strategies to control cellular functions, which is critical in the field of tissue engineering. Controlling cellular processes is often achieved through activating receptor proteins on the […]