Student Successes

Student Successes

  • 2022 Society for Applied Spectroscopy Award Winner: Emily Kwapis

    04/18/2022

    Nuclear Engineering student Emily Kwapis Wins the 2022 Atomic Section Student Award  
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  • 2022 Attributes of a Gator Engineer Award Winner: Kaylee Cunningham

    04/18/2022

    Nuclear Engineering student Kaylee Cunningham wins the 2021-2022 Dean Joseph Weil Engineering Leadership Award Check out the Attributes of a Gator Engineer page for more info!
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  • 2021-2022 Departmental Scholarship Winners

    04/08/2022

    There are countless reasons why a student might need financial aid. Books, tuition, rent, food – the expenses add up quickly, so these scholarships and awards can make a considerable difference for the students who receive them. While academic awards come in a variety of shapes and sizes, each one helps provide valuable support to ...
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  • Kaylee Cunningham Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

    04/04/2022

    Congratulations to Nuclear Engineering student Kaylee Cunningham for earning a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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  • Fall 2021 Commencement

    12/03/2021

    Congratulations to the Fall Class of 2021! On behalf of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and the Nuclear Engineering Program – CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve taken on the most incredible and amazing journey to becoming an engineer, and you’ve succeeded. You are moving on to a new and exciting chapter in your life, and we wish you ...
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  • Emma Steinebronn Awarded Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation

    06/30/2021

    Recent Materials Science & Engineering undergraduate, Emma Steinebronn, was awarded a fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Steinebronn’s research proposal includes a five-year study evaluating induced magnetic fields around semiconducting nanowires as a possible noise source in quantum computing. Quantum computing, while still a relatively new field, has seen significant ...
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  • Jason Gibson Awarded Molecular Sciences Software Institute Fellowship

    05/04/2021

    Jason Gibson, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded a Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) Fellowship, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  Gibson’s research proposal to MolSSI included building an online, open database of machine learning models to help speed up the process of ...
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  • Spring 2021 Commencement

    05/03/2021

    Congratulations to the Spring Class of 2021! On behalf of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and the Nuclear Engineering Program – CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve taken on the most incredible and amazing journey to becoming an engineer, and you’ve succeeded. You are moving on to a new and exciting chapter in your life, and we wish you ...
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  • 2020-2021 Attributes of a Gator Engineer Award

    04/24/2021

    Considered the greatest distinction of any student award given by the college, the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards are intended to provide an ideal guide for all members of the Gator Engineering community. They honor five undergraduate and five Ph.D. students who strongly model one of the five Gator Engineering Attributes: Creativity: imaginative, versatile, resourceful, artful, curious, passionate, inspired, innovative, willing to discover new solutions ...
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  • 2021 MSE-NE Virtual Spring Banquet

    04/21/2021

      This EVENT celebrates the successes of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and the Nuclear Engineering Program’s 2020-2021 academic year Watch the video replay of the Banquet below or scroll down to read through the content presented during the broadcast   https://youtu.be/ZoNUIFOCrm0 Departmental Scholarship Awards Student Society Recognition Faculty Recognition Staff Recognition In Memoriam     MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR Welcome to the Department of Materials ...
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