January 28, 2016
Swadeshmukul Santra and his team were awarded a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a solution to citrus greening, a monumental threat to Florida’s $11 billion citrus industry. In awarding the funding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture also recognized the University of Central Florida as a “Center for Excellence.” That…
January 7, 2016
Yongho Sohn, Ph.D., has been named an Outstanding Materials Engineer for 2016 by the Purdue University School of Materials Engineering. The award will be presented on April 28 during the school’s student night celebration. Sohn is one of four winners of the title for 2016. The award recognizes Sohn’s work in fundamental materials properties measurements…
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…
January 6, 2016
Debashis Chanda and his team’s research on flexible, skin-like, color displays was recently featured as part of the National Science Foundation’s International Year of Light Celebration. 2015 was proclaimed the International Year of Light by the United Nations as an opportunity to raise global awareness about the importance of light and optical technologies in life,…
December 3, 2015
Le Zhou has been awarded a Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship for Spring 2016. The fellowship aims to increase dissertation completion among doctoral students. It is intended for students in their final semester of graduate education who have a realistic expectation of degree completion in the Spring semester. The award will allow students to forgo…
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…