March 9, 2017
Middle School student Laboni Santra recently attended the Seminole County Regional Science, Math and Engineering Fair competition where students from the entire Florida Seminole County presented projects on various STEM related topics. Laboni Santra came in first place with her poster titled “Tracking Therapeutics in a Leaf Using a Fluorescent Dye” in the Plant Sciences…
March 7, 2017
News station WFTV featured coverage of Dr. Sudipta Seal and Kevin Grossman, detailing the research efforts aimed toward using Martian soil to eventually build human habitats on Mars.</p The research is the result of a NASA grant Watch the video here
February 28, 2017
Brandon Carpenter, one of Dr. Thomas’ undergraduate students, has been featured on the Forbes list ’30 Under 30′ You can view Brandon’s profile here
February 17, 2017
It’s hard enough to transport humans to Mars. But once they get there, where will they live? A University of Central Florida professor is working with NASA to figure out a way to extract metals from the Martian soil – metals that could be fed into a 3-D printer to produce the components of a…
February 7, 2017
Central Florida native John Bittman has had an unconventional journey to the University of Central Florida and now the trip has just taken an unexpected turn. Just months before completing UCF’s Nanotechnology Professional Science Master’s degree program, and what Bittman had hoped would be the final planning for a business launch, the federal government has…
January 25, 2017
Graduate student Hao Chen’s poster “High Efficacy, High Color Quality Hybrid White OLEDs Incorporating Red Quantum Dots with Narrow Emission Bands” has been selected as a winner of the Student Poster Competition of the 2017 DOE Solid state lighting (SSL) R&D workshop and he was invited to present on this topic at Long Beach, CA.
A paper from the groups of Dr. Yajie Dong, Dr. Shin-Tson Wu and Dr. Andre J. Gesquiere, titled “Ultrastable, Highly Luminescent Organic-Inorganic Perovskite – Polymer Composite Films”, has been published by Advanced Materials.
Dr. Dong has been invited to join Emissive Display (EMD) subcommittee of Display Week 2017 Technical Program Committee.
Beatriz Jimenez, an EE undergraduate student from Dr. Chanda’s group working on IR spectroscopy was selected for the SURF Program, a summer research scholarship The SURF program entails an 8 – 10 week Summer Undergraduate Researchexperience at the University of Florida. Prospective Ph.D. students for the University of Florida for the fall 2018 termwill be…
Gowan Co. has licensed an anti-fungal and anti-bacterial formula developed by Dr. Santra’s lab, the first agreement of its kind for UCF. The College of Science News highlighted the achievment, summarized below: Gowan Co. recently signed an agreement with the University of Central Floridato obtain exclusive rights to the anti-fungal and anti-bacterial formulationdeveloped by researcher…