May 15, 2015
A nanoparticle additive for jet and rocket fuels that was developed by Sudipta Seal and his research group has been licensed to a company established by a former university researcher. Helicon Chemical Co., LLC, obtained exclusive rights to the technology that improves the dispersion and burning rates of solid fuel propellants. “It makes them safer,…
May 14, 2015
Wade Wilson, an undergraduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship. The prestigious award is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory and U.S. Department of Defense. The scholarship will cover Wilson’s 5-year Ph.D. program with a stipend of $38,000 per year along with health and other…
May 12, 2015
Debashis Chanda was selected to speak on the Science News Radio Show: The Promise of Tomorrow about the “Fantasy and Reality of Science.” The Promise of Tomorrow invites noble laureates to speak about the business of emerging science and nanotechonology. The Promise of Tomorrow is part of the nanoTX USA Conference and Trade Expo that…
May 11, 2015
Swetha Barkam and Ankur Gupta are winners of the 2014-15 Graduate Student Research Scholarship from UCF’s Student Government Association. The $500 award recognizes graduate students for their research activity, conference presentations, and academic excellence. In addition, Barkam won the SGA Campus Involvement Scholarship. The $250 scholarship is awarded to students for their campus and community…
May 7, 2015
Josie Lorenzo won the $2,500 Northrop Grumman Spring 2015 Engineering Scholarship. The scholarship presents two major awards of $2,500 each and two secondary awards of $1,000 each for undergraduate students in the College of Engineering & Computer Science each fall and spring semester. Lorenzo is an undergraduate student studying Photonic Sciences and Engineering. She currently…
May 6, 2015
UCF faculty member Jayan Thomas, Ph.D. spied some stray cables lying about when he went for a walk one evening to ponder the subject of energy storage. With a “charge” of inspiration, a novel thought occurred to him: Cables transmit energy, so why couldn’t they also store it? That insight has led to research that…
May 4, 2015
Undergraduate student Julian Moore is a winner of the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Scholarship for 2015-2016. Moore was awarded $2,500 for academic excellence in the field of Aerospace Engineering. Moore is a member of Dr. Jayan Thomas’s Nano Energy-Photonics Group. He previously won the Northrop Grumman Scholarship. The Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Scholarship supports sophomore…
April 23, 2015
Swadeshmukul Santra’s research into citrus greening is featured in a new article from The Huffington Post. The race is on to find an effective treatment for citrus greening, a ruinous disease that has decimated citrus industries across the world and brought global orange production to the lowest levels seen in generations. The U.S. Department of…
April 20, 2015
Swadeshmukul “Swadesh” Santra, Associate Professor in UCF’s Nanoscience Technology Center, Department of Chemistry, and Biomolecular Science Center, is featured in an article from the Orlando Sentinel. Santra was at a conference on citrus greening when an idea came to him that could save the state’s ailing citrus industry. That light-bulb moment helped Santra, who works…
April 15, 2015
Congratulations to Jayan Thomas for his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. He holds a joint-appointment with CREOL and MSE. Thomas’ research interests revolve around developing nanoarchitectured energy conversion and storage devices, developing photorefractive polymers with improved sensitivity and studying the optical limiting properties of core-shell plasmonic nanostructures. He also heads the UCF Nano Energy-Photonics…