February 5, 2011
AMPAC Assistant Professor Dr. Christine Klemenz was elected a Member of the Commission of Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials (CCGCM) of the International Union of Crystallography. Klemenz was also nominated as member of the program committee for the Solid State Laser Technology XVIII Conference, which will take place January 2009 in San Jose, CA…
We are happy to announce that Satyender Goel was selected for the Order Of Pegasus ( the highest student award bestowed by UCF). Graduate students are selected based on their academic achievement, professional or community service, leadership, and publication or research experiences. We congratulate Satyender on this accomplishment. The award ceremony is scheduled for April…
Dr. Artëm Masunov (Assistant Professor, Joint NSTC & Chemistry) will serve as a Co-PI on a new $1.8 Million 4-Year Collaborative Research in Chemistry Grant from NSF titled Self-Organized Aggregates in Photonics (SOAP): A Comprehensive Approach to Multiphoton Absorbing Supramolecular Assemblies (PI: Dr. Kevin Belfield, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry). See here for more…
The team of Khondaker and Stokes devised a new technique to engineer quantum transistors which will be published in Applied Physics Letters (Issue 92). Computer electronics experts worries about what is going to occur when transistors shrink so small that electron quantum effects begin to play a role. In response, Khondaker and Stokes have controllably…
Dr. Sudipta Seal, AMPAC Professor of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Materials (ASM) “for pioneering the development of multi-component surface engineered oxides for a multitude of industrial applications.” In 1969, ASM established the Fellow of the Society honor to provide recognition to members for their distinguished…
We are happy to announce that Dr. J. Manuel Perez’s graduate student Atul Asati will receive a Ellie Lilly Graduate Research Excellence Award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). This prestigious award will be presented at the AAPS National Biotechnology Conference in Seattle, WA this coming June. He was selected to present their…
Congratulations to Dr. J. Manuel Perez and his group for their recent paper in Angewandte Chemie titled “Oxidase-like activity of polymer coated cerium oxide nanoparticles.” In this paper, the authors report the use of cerium oxide nanoparticles as a versatile aqueous redox catalyst that can oxidize a series of compounds without the need of hydrogen…
Professor Dr. Debra Reinhart has earned UCF’s top faculty honor by being named Pegasus Professor for her devoted service to the university and its students and her notable accomplishments in the field of Environmental Engineering. Since 2000, only a handful of professors have received the Pegasus Professor Award which recognizes sustained excellence in teaching, research,…
Congratulations to Atul Asati on receiving the AVS (American Vacuum Society) Graduate Research Award for 2009. Atul will be presented with this award at the AVS International Symposium and Exhibition in San Jose, California this November. The award is given to students in recognition of excellence in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS.
We are pleased to announce that Pansy Patel has received the best poster award at the FAME 2009: 85th Annual Florida Meeting and Exposition. The event was held for the Florida division of ACS (Advanced Chemical Society). The poster is titled “‘Density Functional Theory In Design of Fatigue-Resistant Photochromic Materials For Optical Switching And Data…