Kevin Grossman (PhD student MSE) won the Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference best poster paper presentation. Congratulations Kevin!

Swetha Barkam selected for a Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Award for 2016. Specifically, Barkam was awarded 4th place overall, and 1st within the Sapphire Ranking division. Congratulations Swetha!

Nileshi Saraf has been awarded $525 to attend the 2016 SNO Conference in Orlando, between Nov 10-12. Congratulations Nileshi!

Dr. Debashis Chanda and Daniel Franklin have been selected for a Top-10 novel display innovation, Displaying Futures Award 2016. They has been invited to Germany for a three day event where their idea, “Skin-like plasmonic Full-Color Displays” will be recognized. Congratulations Dr. Chanda and Daniel Franklin!

Swetha Barkam, a PhD student in Dr. Seal’s research group will be awarded the Artistic Creativity award for the 1st Annual ACerS PCSA Creativity Competition at MS&T Congratulations Swetha!

Dr. Soumen Das, a member of Dr. Seal’s research group, has received a young investigator award for “International Conference on Ionizing Processes (ICIP 2016)”. The conference will take place between October 10 through October 14 at BNL. Dr. Das will be presenting “Cerium Oxide as Radio-modifier.” You can view Dr. Seal’s research group members page…

Dr. Santra and Dr. Thomas have been acknowledged recently in an article by UCF Today for their individual participations in the development of nano technologies. Dr. Santra’s Zinkicide invention is extensively detailed in the article, and Dr. Thomas is noted for his award winning portable energy source and chemically sensitive tape. The full text of…

Graduate student Ankur Gupta has been selected as a student board member on the Thermal Spray Society Board of Directors. This one year position allows Gupta the opportunity to participate in several TSS teleconferences, as well as an expenses paid trip to attend the TSS Board meeting in Salt Lake City Utah. TSS President Christian…

Dr. Huo’s former student, Lauren Austin, has been recognized for her scientific achievements by Chemical and Engineering News magazine. Austin is a part of C&EN’s ‘Talented 12’ feature, which highlights 12 scientists across the world who are making an impact on today’s big scientific issues. Read the full article.

Researchers at the University of Central Florida received an all-time-high $145.75 million in funded research in FY16, a period that featured a national top 20 ranking for UCF patents and a new record for federal funding. Dr. Swadeshmukul Santra was noted for his work, including the invention of Zinkicide. The patented product helps fight against…