February 12, 2015
The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) is offering financial support to select students to attend the European Ceramic Society Summer School and Biennial Conference in Spain. ACerS is seeking graduate and undergraduate students from the United States who are interested in attending the Summer School program, which will be held June 17-19, 2015 in Madrid, Spain.…
February 6, 2015
Debashis Chanda has been invited to serve on the editorial board of Scientific Reports, a journal from the publishers of Nature. Scientific Reports launched in 2011 as a multidisciplinary, online-only, open access publication covering all areas of the natural sciences. Editorial board members are recruited for an initial 2-year term to assess manuscripts, manage peer…
January 27, 2015
An article co-authored by Qun “Treen” Huo is featured on the cover of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. The article, entitled “Different Interaction Modes of Biomolecules with Citrate-Capped Gold Nanoparticles,” contains analysis that could lead to new biomarker discovery with diagnostic applications. Huo holds joint Appointments in the NanoScience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry…
January 13, 2015
A new article from the University of Central Florida’s Nano-Optics Group appears in the December 31 edition of Physical Review Letters. The weekly journal is one of most prestigious publications in the field of physics. Energy exchange between electrons and photons is still not a well understood phenomenon. The UCF group’s paper theoretically, as well…
December 24, 2014
Alireza Safaei and Daniel Franklin are winners of the 2014 Northrop Grumman Scholarship. Alireza was awarded $10,000, and Daniel was awarded $3,000. Both students are Ph.D. candidates in Dr. Debashis Chanda’s Nano-Optics research group. They will be recognized at the UCF College of Sciences Scholarship Luncheon during the spring term. The Northrop Grumman Scholarship recognizes…
December 22, 2014
Briana Lee is the 2014-15 recipient of the Michael J. & Kathy E. Rovito Public Health Scholarship. Briana is an undergraduate student in the College of Health and Public Affairs and joined the Tetard Research group in the Spring 2014. The scholarship is granted to students that demonstrate a commitment to the pursuit of a…
November 26, 2014
Panit Chantharasupawong and Zenan Yu are winners of the 2014-15 UCF Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Panit and Zenan are both Ph.D. students in the Nano Energy-Photonics Group, led by Dr. Jayan Thomas. Panit Chantharasupawong is a doctoral candidate in the College of Optics and Photonics, and Zenan Yui is a doctoral candidate in Materials…
November 7, 2014
Helping the world one cocoon at a time, nanobiotechnology researcher Swetha Barkam extracts raw silk from cocoons to create polymer-based technology for commercial use in products such as “smart patches” which would get resorbed into the body, minimizing cost and health risk. The goal: fully green, sustainable and inexpensive healthcare solutions for underprivileged populations. Barkam…
October 21, 2014
A team of UCF researchers just landed a $1.3 million National Institute of Health grant to crack a problem cancer-patients worry about and that specialist struggle with almost daily. They are developing a promising technique to deliver a cancer-fighting drug to cancer cells that escape tumors and move through the body to spread cancer. These…
October 13, 2014
Researchers at the University of Central Florida set a new record in funded research in FY14, receiving $145.6 million, 30 percent more than the previous year. The funding totals reflect successful collaborations with industry, a record total for federal defense grants and continued growth in commercialization and innovation activity. “This is, of course, the trajectory…