- Gator engineer Kaylee Cunningham named to ASME’s 2026 Mechanical Engineering Watch List
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has named UF Ph.D. candidate Kaylee Cunningham to its 2026 Mechanical Engineering Watch List.
- Nuclear Engineering’s Justin Borrero earns international research award
Justin Borrero, a Ph.D. candidate in nuclear engineering, has won the 2026 Barbara Stull Graduate Student Award from the Society of Applied Spectroscopy, known as SAS.
- Two MSE graduates and one doctoral student win NSF fellowships
Three of the 15 Gator engineers who won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships this year are from the University of Florida’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering/Nuclear Engineering.
- Nuclear engineering doctoral student named Rickover Fellow
Nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Rigsby recently became a fellow of the Rickover Fellowship Program in Nuclear Engineering, a program sponsored by the Naval Reactors Division of the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Back-to-back: UF Materials Bowl team snags another championship
The University of Florida’s Materials Science and Engineering students claimed back-to-back victories at the 2026 TMS Materials Bowl, showcasing their expertise in materials science and the strength of their teamwork in a high-speed, trivia-style competition.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has named UF Ph.D. candidate Kaylee Cunningham to its 2026 Mechanical Engineering Watch List.
Justin Borrero, a Ph.D. candidate in nuclear engineering, has won the 2026 Barbara Stull Graduate Student Award from the Society of Applied Spectroscopy, known as SAS.
Nuclear engineering doctoral student Rachel Rigsby recently became a fellow of the Rickover Fellowship Program in Nuclear Engineering, a program sponsored by the Naval Reactors Division of the U.S. Department of Energy.
The University of Florida’s Materials Science and Engineering students claimed back-to-back victories at the 2026 TMS Materials Bowl, showcasing their expertise in materials science and the strength of their teamwork in a high-speed, trivia-style competition.