Swadeshmukul Santra and his team were awarded a $477,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of a $5.2 million investment in nanotechnology research at 11 universities. The grant was awarded to develop a method of combatting a bacterium that attacks tomatoes and other crops.

Swetha Barkam has received a $1000 travel scholarship from the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) to attend the European Ceramic Society’s (ECerS) Summer School in Limoges, France, June 23 – 25, 2016. The scholarship is an effort to help offset the costs of the program’s attendance. This year’s summer school program will focus on issues and…

Swetha Barkam has been recognized as an outstanding student leader for Women’s History Month, representing March 28th, by the Lead Scholars Academy. Barkam was featured along with an interview with questions about her involvement, goals, advice for students, and favorite UCF traditions.

Sudipta Seal and his team’s nanotech, in collaboration with Bradley Willenberg from the UCF College of Medicine, was featured on WFTV9. The technology is designed to detect mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus in real time. The technology starts with a trap that exudes an odorous blend that is especially attractive to specific species…

Congratulation to Swetha Barkam and Kazi Tasneem who have been selected for the Frank Hubbard Engineering Endowed Scholarship for 2016-2017. The scholarship amount is $1,000 over two semesters. Qualifications for the scholarship are full-time status as a graduate or undergraduate student in engineering, and a minimum 3.0 G.P.A. Extracurricular activities and community service activities were…

Congratulations to the following faculty on their awards: Prof. J. Fang (MSE/AMPAC) – Research Incentive Award. Prof. S. Santra (NSTC) – Research Incentive Award, and Reach for the Stars Award Prof. L. Zhai (NSTC) – Research Incentive Award Prof. S. Raghavan (MSE/AMPAC) – Reach for the Stars Award Prof. J. Thomas (NSTC) – Reach for…

Swetha Barkam has been selected for induction into the Order of Pegasus Class of 2016. She will be recognized at the Order of Pegasus award ceremony on April 4, 2016. Order of Pegasus is the most prestigious and significant award a student can attain at the University of Central Florida. Order of Pegasus recognizes exemplary…

Sudipta Seal, Ph.D., was recently interviewed by the Office of Technology Transfer on his journey to embracing research and entrepreneurship through academia and industry. The interview walks through Dr. Seal’s creation of two business startups, nSolgel and NanoCE, the inventions and funding that led to those businesses, and the support needed to make startups a…

A UCF College of Medicine researcher, Bradley Willenberg, has designed a new mosquito surveillance tool that attracts the insects, diagnoses those carrying disease, and turns them a different color as a warning system to residents in at-risk areas throughout the world. Willenberg and his team are working with Sudipta Seal, UCF’s interim chair of the…

On Friday, October 30, Several NSTC and AMPAC Faculty and Staff are presenting at the UCF Sensor Conference. UCF Sensor Conference Date and Time: Friday, October 30th, 8:15 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. Location: Rooms, 102, 103 CREOL at UCF All interested UCF faculty and industry stakeholders are welcome. The UCF Sensor Conference is a one-day…