Category: Students

As a researcher, Jomary Mercado-Montijo understands first-hand how tapping the right resources and asking the right questions can achieve positive results in the lab. By tapping the right resources in her academic pursuits, she has found success through mentorship. Mercado-Montijo is a Ph.D. student in the Andrew Research Group in the Department of Materials Science […]

Hard work and dedication are paying dividends for Materials Science & Engineering graduate student Bryan James. Some of his more recent accolades include winning the 2019 Biomaterials Education Challenge and securing a prestigious National Institute of Health Ruth L. Kirschtein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award. James is also a UF Department of Materials Science […]

Amalie Atassi, Jacob Ewing, Jomary Mercado-Montjito, Abigail Nason and Monica Wall were awarded the fellowship, created to support graduate study in a STEM field. The Department also had three other students, Nick Etrick, Emma Cochran and Chappel Sharock win Honorable Mention. “All of these students deserve recognition for their hard work and dedication to their […]

UF’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering student team brought the TMS 2019 Grand Prize home from San Antonio, Texas, receiving the TMS-Wadsworth-Sherby Bladesmithing Grand Prize Medal and a $2,000 cash prize in recognition of their entry “Decapigator.” The biennial competition challenges student teams from around the world to produce a knife or sword blade […]

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 […]

“Zoom in.” “A little more.” “What evidence do you see in the surface appearance that you can use to determine if it is a brittle or ductile failure?” MSE Professor Nancy Ruzycki, Ph.D., can be heard coaching two students who are working at the Scanning Electron Microscope while other students prepare samples, examine material structures […]

Hannah Gardiner, a third-year Ph.D. student in Nuclear Engineering at UF, was invited to speak on the role of scientists and engineers in global security at the Science and Security Summit 2017, hosted by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). The FAS is a Washington, DC-based nonpartisan think tank focusing primarily on nuclear policy and […]

Congratulations to the winners of Student Poster Session! With more than 160 accepted posters, NACE had the largest turnout of students ever. There were three winners in the categories of Mars Fontana (corrosion engineering), Harvey Herro (applied corrosion technology), and Marcel Pourbaix (corrosion science), along with the best undergraduate poster. Please help us congratulate the […]

MSE Junior Brittani Maskley won the Student Undergraduate Poster Award at The Minerals, Materials, and Mining Society (TMS) annual symposium held February 14-18, 2016, in Nashville, TN. Maskley is part of the University Scholars Program and Research Experience in Materials program.

Congratulations to Yash Shah, an MSE doctoral student studying under Jon Dobson, Ph.D., and Kyle Allen, Ph.D. from BME. Shah’s poster presentation entitled “Detection of Synovial Fluid Degradation Through Magnetic Particle Collection” was judged to be one of five Biomedical Engineering Society 2015 Poster Award Winners. His poster was chosen from more than 2,000 entries […]