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
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…
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.
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…
September 16, 2015
Ankur Gupta has been awarded the $300 Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Travel Grant to present his research at the 62nd Annual American Vacuum Society International Symposium and Exhibition in San Jose, CA, October 18-23. Gupta’s research, Gradient Electrochemical Response of Template Synthesized Thickness Sorted MoS2 Nanosheets for Cellular Level Free Radical Detection, will…
September 2, 2015
Yeonwoong (Eric) Jung’s co-first authored paper, Nanoscale Size Effects in Crystallization of Metallic Glass Nanorods, has been published in the latest edition of Nature Communications. The paper focuses on in-situ TEM of metallic glass nanorods, revealing abnormal size-dependent crystallization in this system for the first time. The findings provide insight into relevant length scales in…
August 20, 2015
Swetha Barkam is a recipient of the 2015-2016 Alumni Fellows Graduate Scholarship in the amount of $1500. Barkam is a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and a member of Dr. Sudipta Seal’s research group. Applicants were evaluated on GPA, well-rounded involvement at UCF, involvement in the local community, and exceptional…