November 20, 2015
Thomas’ research on supercapacitors has won a 2015 R&D 100 award. The R&D 100 Awards have a 50+ year history of recognizing excellence in innovation, earning the name the “Oscars of Invention.” The award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and consumers that tells potential customers that the product has successfully competed…
November 19, 2015
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…
October 30, 2015
Debashis Chanda and Daniel Franklin’s work on bendable, wearable, displays was covered in a recent video on Channel 9. The news anchor describes how the bendable displays works, “electric current stimulates the metal on a microscopic scale and that can change how it reflects color.” Chanda goes on to envision the wearable display taking a…
October 23, 2015
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…
October 19, 2015
Steven Heller has been awarded a Research and Mentoring Program (RAMP) fellowship with Sudipta Seal, Ph.D. as his advisor. RAMP is designed to provide undergraduate students, who may be interested in pursuing graduate education, with research experience while working closely with a faculty mentor. In addition, the students participate in a variety of workshops designed…
October 15, 2015
Kripa Ahuja won second place for a poster presentation in the recently held Florida American Society of Microbiology meeting. Even as a high school student, she competed in the undergraduate category and was awarded the second place prize. Ahuja is currently a high school senior at Trinity Preparatory School, Lake Mary, Florida. She has been…
October 14, 2015
Swadeshmukul Santra’s bactericide invention, Zinkicide, has been recently featured by ABC WFTV Channel 9 on a segment about the Florida citrus industry continuing to fight for funding for research and testing to battle citrus greening. You can watch the video on WFTV.
MSE students represented UCF on the ACerS President council at the Materials Science and Technology 2015 conference in Ohio. ACerS President’s Council of Student Advisors (PCSA) is the student-led committee of ACerS responsible for representing student interests to ACerS and its subsidiary committees, divisions, sections, and classes. The PCSA is the primary face of ACerS…
October 5, 2015
Preeti Kumrah has been awarded the Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher Award for the month of October 2015 at the University of Central Florida. Kumrah was chosen by the Student Undergraduate Research Council based on the overall merit of the research she is currently conducting as an undergraduate student and her accomplishments to date with this work.…
September 23, 2015
The impressive presentations by graduate students at the first Professional Science Masters Day were highlighted in a recent article by UCFToday. PSM Nanotechnology students, Jennifer Parra and Robert Williamson, presented deliverables from their internships and discussed the benefits they were provided as part of a Professional Science Masters degree program. Parra interned at L’OREAL USA…