Category: Students

The UF Bladesmithing Team took second place at the March 2015 TMS Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The first-ever competition consisted of 19 student teams from throughout the world to produce a knife or sword blade using traditional blacksmithing techniques. The members of the team were Justin Dansbury, Mathew Wener, Daniel Machado, Dean Sage, and Rachel […]

Alison Trachet, a Ph.D. candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering department and working under the supervision of Prof. Ghatu Subhash of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Student Award to Austria.  The award letter reads “I am delighted to inform you that you have been selected for a 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. […]

Jack Mecholsky, Ph.D., was selected for the 2014 William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award from the Florida Education Fund (FEF). He received the award at a special ceremony during the Annual McKnight Doctoral Fellows Conference in Tampa, Florida, on November 9, 2014. The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program is designed to address the underrepresentation of African […]

Aaron Lind, a Ph.D. graduate student working with Kevin Jones, Ph.D., won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 20th International Conference on Ion Implantation Technology. The conference was held in Portland, Oregon, in July 2014. Aaron’s talk was entitled “Effect of Al, P and Ar Co-Implantation on Si Activation in InGaAs.”

Claudia Sotomayor graduated with a BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering, focusing on semiconductor physics and learning how chemical and electrical principles fuse together to create modern electronic devices. In the summer of 2011, the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program allowed her to study the synthesis and characterization of geranium nano-crystals […]

The University of Florida won the TMS Materials Bowl, beating 11 other university teams, including the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, in the final round. The competition consisted of a “Jeopardy-style” trivia competition in single elimination rounds. Team members included Glenn Bean, Hunter Henderson, Peter Feldtmann and Steven Chiu. Each team member was awarded $250, […]

The Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society has named UF MSE undergraduate student Clayton Cozzan the recipient of the 2013 Lewis C. Hoffman Scholarship Award. Cozzan was selected “in recognition of his excellence in the classroom, accompanied by many significant contributions to research, and for his excellent essay titled Creativity Prevails at the Nanoscale: […]

Every year, the American Nuclear Society (ANS) holds a design competition to select the best Student design projects.  A panel of industry judges reviews the submitted projects and selects two undergraduate and two graduate teams to make oral presentations in front of a second panel of Judges at the society’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. […]

Ph.D. candidate Haixiong Tang, studying under Henry Sodano, Ph.D., has been awarded the 1st Place SPIE/ASME Best Student Paper Award at SPIE’s 20th International Symposium on Smart Materials in San Diego on March 13, 2013. In addition, Haixiong received the 2012 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Studying Abroad, a prestigious Chinese government award […]