NSTC News
February 2015
Santra Wins UCF Excellence in Research Award
Swadeshmukul Santra is a winner of the University of Central Florida's 2015 Excellence in Research award.
Excellence in Research awards are given to each college at UCF. However, only one winner is selected to represent the combined research staff in UCF's institutes and centers. Dr. Santra will be honored during UCF’s annual Founders’ Day ceremony in April.
February 2015
ACerS Offers Scholarships for Summer Programs in Spain
The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) is offering financial support to select students to attend the European Ceramic Society Summer School and Biennial Conference in Spain.
February 2015
Chanda Invited to Scientific Reports Editorial Board
Debashis Chanda has been invited to serve on the editorial board of Scientific Reports, a journal from the publishers of Nature.
January 2015
Huo's Research Featured on ACS Cover
An article co-authored by Qun "Treen" Huo is featured on the cover of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. The article, entitled "Different Interaction Modes of Biomolecules with Citrate-Capped Gold Nanoparticles," contains analysis that could lead to new biomarker discovery with diagnostic applications.
January 2015
PRL Features Article by Nano-Optics Group
A new article from the University of Central Florida's Nano-Optics Group appears in the December 31 edition of Physical Review Letters. The weekly journal is one of most prestigious publications in the field of physics.
December 2014
Ph.D. Students Win Northrop Grumman Scholarship
Alireza Safaei and Daniel Franklin are winners of the 2014 Northrop Grumman Scholarship. Alireza was awarded $10,000, and Daniel was awarded $3,000.
December 2014
Briana Lee Wins Public Health Scholarship
Briana Lee is the 2014-15 recipient of the Michael J. & Kathy E. Rovito Public Health Scholarship. Briana is an undergraduate student in the College of Health and Public Affairs and joined the Tetard Research group in the Spring 2014.
November 2014
Students Win $10,000 Fellowships
Panit Chantharasupawong and Zenan Yu are winners of the 2014-15 UCF Graduate Dean's Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
November 2014
Swetha Barkam, Silk Spinner
Helping the world one cocoon at a time, nanobiotechnology researcher Swetha Barkam extracts raw silk from cocoons to create polymer-based technology for commercial use in products such as “smart patches” which would get resorbed into the body, minimizing cost and health risk.
October 2014
Cancer-Killing Agent And Nanotechnology: Promising Technique To Stop Metastasized Cancer Cells
A team of UCF researchers just landed a $1.3 million National Institute of Health grant to crack a problem cancer-patients worry about and that specialist struggle with almost daily.
October 2014
UCF Reports Record $145.6M in Research Funding
Researchers at the University of Central Florida set a new record in funded research in FY14, receiving $145.6 million, 30 percent more than the previous year.
October 2014
Seal Wins Schwartz Tech Award
Two engineering professors and an associate vice president at the University of Central Florida nabbed three Schwartz Tech Awards Tuesday night.
October 2014
Rajasekaran Takes 1st Place at NanoFlorida 2014
Dr. Parthiban Rajasekaran took First Prize among oral presentations at NanoFlorida™ 2014. His presentation was titled "Chitosan-metal composites as a potential prophylactic antimicrobial feed additive for combating antimicrobial resistance."
September 2014
Nano Faculty at UCF Grad Fair
Faculty, staff, and students from UCF's NanoScience Technology Center were in attendance at this year's UCF Grad Fair to representing the new Professional Science Master’s in Nanotechnology.
September 2014
UCF Professor, VP Nominated for Schwartz Tech Awards
An engineering professor and an associate vice president at the University of Central Florida have been nominated for Schwartz Tech awards.
September 2014
Nanowire Packs Portable Power
September 2014
Researcher to Discuss Fighting Cancer with Nanotechnology
National Medal of Science recipient Mostafa A. El-Sayed, whose nanotechnology research has led to new ways of treating cancer, will speak at UCF on Friday, Sept. 5, about his current projects.
August 2014
Material Advantage and MRS Clubs Hold Membership Drive
The UCF Material Advantage and MRS organizations ran a membership drive at the Engineering Building on August 26.
August 2014
UCF researchers developing plan to attack citrus greening
Keith Landry, MyFoxOrlando
These are very challenging times for Florida's citrus farmers. Experts forecast Florida will have its smallest orange crop this year in forty-nine years. Analysts say the citrus greening disease is destroying our orange groves. University of Central Florida researchers are using nano science, trying to save our oranges.
August 2014
Balaeff Paper Highlighted in Science
A recent paper by Alexander Balaeff and colleagues is highlighted in the latest issue of Science magazine.
June 2014
Doshi Wins Poster Award at ESP2014
June 2014
Nanotechnology Research at UCF Could Change How We Send and Store Electricity
By Keith Landry
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) - A simple video shows what could become a huge change in how we send and store electricity through wires. The video illustrates research being done at the University of Central Florida's NanoScience Technology Center.
June 2014
UCF Researcher Seal and Team Win TechConnect National Innovation Award
Two University of Central Florida scientists have earned national awards because their inventions are expected to make a difference in fueling future commercial spacecraft and in the efficiency of solar panels needed to convert sunlight into electricity.
June 2014
New NanoTech May Provide Power Storage in Cables, Clothes
Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 player, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?
May 2014
UCF Researchers Among DURIP Award Winners
UCF researchers including professors Romain Gaume and Yongho Sohn are working on projects funded by grants from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program.
May 2014
UCF Grads Win Research Excellence Fellowship
Graduate students Le Zhou and Shashank Saraf have been awarded UCF's Graduate Research Excellence Fellowship.
May 2014
UCF Students Win Poster Awards at 225th ECS Meeting
UCF students won two poster awards at the 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Orlando. The competition was highly competitive, and, after several rounds of judging, only 4 awards were presented among 84 posters from presenters around the country and abroad.
April 2014
Barkam Wins SGA Scholarship
Ph.D. candidate Swetha Barkam is a winner of the 2013-2014 SGA Campus Student Involvement Scholarship. The $250 award is presented to outstanding students who demonstrate exceptional involvement in the UCF community.
April 2014
Gesquiere Wins Research Incentive Award
Andre J. Gesquiere is a winner of UCF's 2014 Research Incentive Awards. The RIA program rewards outstanding achievements in research, scholarly and creative activities.
April 2014
UCF Researchers Make Breakthrough into “Invisibility” Tech
People have dreamed about the possibility of invisibility for centuries. It's the subject of countless books and Hollywood movies, but is the real thing really possible?
March 2014
NanoTech Leads to Break-Through in Stealth Technology
Controlling and bending light around an object so it appears invisible to the naked eye is the theory behind fictional invisibility cloaks.
March 2014
UCF Nanotech Degree Expected to Spin Out Companies
The new nanotechnology master’s degree offered by the University of Central Florida will have a “huge economic impact” on Central Florida, said Sudipta Seal, the director of the Nanoscience Technology Center and the Advanced Materials Processing & Analysis Center at UCF.
March 2014
UCF OKs new degree to tap into $1.2 trillion tech industry
by Abraham Aboraya
Orlando Business Journal
The University of Central Florida today approved a new master’s degree that may provide an economic boost to the region’s high-tech industry.
March 2014
UCF to Offer New Nanotechnology Degree
The UCF Board of Trustees Thursday approved a new interdisciplinary professional science master’s degree program that will expand UCF’s offerings in the rapidly growing field of nanotechnology.
March 2014
Advanced Optical Materials Features Nano-Optics Group
An article co-authored by Debashis Chanda is one of this month's cover features for Advanced Optical Materials.
March 2014
Moore Wins Northrop Grumman Scholarship
Undergraduate Julian Moore has been awarded the Northrop Grumman Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year.
March 2014
Kale wins 2014 CECS Alumni Award
Ajay Kale is a winner of the 2014 College of Engineering & Computer Science Distinguished Alumni award.
March 2014
Nano Students Win 2014-15 Scholarships
Swetha Barkam and Rameech McCormack have been awarded scholarships for the 2014-15 academic year. Both students are members of Dr. Sudipta Seal's research group and the College of Engineering & Computer Science.
March 2014
U.S. News, Princeton Review Rank 24 UCF Graduate Programs Among Nation's Best
The University of Central Florida’s video game graduate school ranks No. 2 in North America, and 23 other UCF graduate programs rank among the top 100 in their fields in the United States.
March 2014
UCF Students Honored at 2014 FLAVS/FSM Symposium
The Annual Joint Symposium & Exhibition of the Florida Chapter of the AVS Science and Technology Society (FLAVS) and the Florida Society for Microscopy (FSM) was held March 3-4 at UCF.
