February 5, 2011
Professor Dr. Debra Reinhart has earned UCF’s top faculty honor by being named Pegasus Professor for her devoted service to the university and its students and her notable accomplishments in the field of Environmental Engineering. Since 2000, only a handful of professors have received the Pegasus Professor Award which recognizes sustained excellence in teaching, research,…
February 5, 2011
Congratulations to Dr. J. Manuel Perez and his group for their recent paper in Angewandte Chemie titled “Oxidase-like activity of polymer coated cerium oxide nanoparticles.” In this paper, the authors report the use of cerium oxide nanoparticles as a versatile aqueous redox catalyst that can oxidize a series of compounds without the need of hydrogen…
February 5, 2011
We are happy to announce that Dr. J. Manuel Perez’s graduate student Atul Asati will receive a Ellie Lilly Graduate Research Excellence Award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). This prestigious award will be presented at the AAPS National Biotechnology Conference in Seattle, WA this coming June. He was selected to present their…
February 5, 2011
By Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala UCF Newsroom An over-the-counter prostate cancer test kit could be coming to a pharmacy near you, thanks to the collaborative work of a University of Central Florida chemist and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando researchers. UCF’s Qun “Treen” Huo and M.D. Anderson-Orlando’s Dr. Cheryl Baker and Jimmie Colon teamed up about…
February 5, 2011
By Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala UCF Newsroom Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies. Perez and his team used a drug called Taxol for their cell culture studies, recently published in the journal Small, because…
February 4, 2011
Congratulations to Pansy Patel on receiving the Chemical Computing Group Graduate Student Excellence Award. Pansy will be presented with this award at a ceremony during the COMP Division Session at 2010 Spring ACS National Meeting. The award is given to students for their excellence in Chemical research using Computers. Shruba Gangopadhyay and Pansy Patel win…
February 4, 2011
We are delighted to announce that Masa Ishigami has been awarded a NSF CAREER award. Congratulations Masa! Thanks for helping UCF continue to move forward as a Research University!
February 4, 2011
Dr. Jeff Ramsdell has been appointed director of the Appalachian Energy Center at Appalachian State University. Ramsdell received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from UCF. Read the article.
February 4, 2011
Dr. Artëm E. Masunov was recognized with the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Young Investigator Award for his work on “Combined descriptions of the valence excited states based on Density Functional Theory: TD-DFT with eDFT excitation energy corrections”. The ceremony will take place at the 50th Sanibel Symposium to be held at St. Simons Island,…
February 4, 2011
A discovery made in a UCF nanotechnology lab will likely become an over-the-counter cancer test kit in three to five years, thanks to a new commercialization grant. In 2009, Qun Huo and her team developed a new technique involving gold nanoparticles to help detect cancer. She then launched Nano Discovery, Inc., a medical research bioassay…