Tag: National Science Foundation

Meer Muhtasim Mahfuz, a senior majoring in materials science and engineering, has been awarded the highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).  While at UF, Mahfuz conducted research in the lab of Honggyu Kim, Ph.D., where he focused on the characterization of functional materials and semiconductor thin films using advanced transmission electron […]

As demand for cleaner energy grows, so does the need for sustainable battery technologies. At the University of Florida, Megan Butala, Ph.D., an assistant professor of materials science and engineering, is exploring a promising alternative to today’s lithium-ion batteries. Her research focuses on disordered rocksalt oxides (DRXs), which could reduce reliance on scarce and environmentally […]

In the internet age, the landscape of human-generated data has undergone a remarkable transformation. From the early days of website creation to the current era of cloud storage, social media, big data, and artificial intelligence, the collective output of information has soared with each passing year, marking a substantial increase in the volume and complexity […]

What if airplanes could morph and dynamically change shape during flight, similar to birds?  It may sound too good to be true. Still, engineers at the University of Florida Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) are working toward a future that may allow that exact scenario to become commonplace.  Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are […]

Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) undergraduates Colton Ginter and Akash Ram each received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.   Ginter began his undergraduate education at The State College of Florida (SCF) and transferred to UF in 2020. In the summer of 2021, he completed a Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship […]

Amanda Krause, Ph.D., and Ryan Need, Ph.D., assistant professors in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, have each received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. As one of NSF’s most prestigious honors, CAREER Awards recognize junior faculty who possess the potential to serve as academic […]

Tori Miller, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, has been named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award winner. Her research will utilize statistical methods and machine learning to investigate the micro-scale structure of materials during manufacture. “When metals are […]

Amanda Krause, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UF Department of Materials Science & Engineering, is employing artificial intelligence methods to track and catalogue data for her abnormal grain growth research, and thanks to new a $1.2 million research award from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, she will bring a cutting-edge, […]

Bryan Conry, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Conry graduated from Stony Brook University with a double major in Chemical Engineering and Applied Math and was a guest researcher at Brookhaven National Lab’s X-ray synchrotron for a year before […]