Category: Students

Fatmata Barrie, a Ph.D. candidate studying under Michele Manuel, Ph.D., has been awarded a research grant through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Following a 3-month language study program in Indonesia, Barrie will be conducting research there for 10 months investigating bamboo-reinforced concrete for improved structural resistance to earthquake damage. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards […]

Undergraduate student Ali Henriques, studying under Jacob Jones, Ph.D., earned second place honors in the poster competition at the Orlando Electronic Materials and Applications Meeting on January 30. Congratulations, Ali!

Ph.D. candidate Shruti Banavara Seshadri, studying under Jacob Jones, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2012 Alec Courtelis Award, a prestigious University of Florida award given to selected international students in recognition of academic excellence and outstanding contribution to the university and community. Seshadri was one of only three students chosen for this award. Song Chen, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]