February 5, 2011
By Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala UCF Newsroom Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies. Perez and his team used a drug called Taxol for their cell culture studies, recently published in the journal Small, because…
February 4, 2011
We are delighted to announce that Masa Ishigami has been awarded a NSF CAREER award. Congratulations Masa! Thanks for helping UCF continue to move forward as a Research University!
Congratulations to Pansy Patel on receiving the Chemical Computing Group Graduate Student Excellence Award. Pansy will be presented with this award at a ceremony during the COMP Division Session at 2010 Spring ACS National Meeting. The award is given to students for their excellence in Chemical research using Computers. Shruba Gangopadhyay and Pansy Patel win…
Dr. Artëm E. Masunov was recognized with the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Young Investigator Award for his work on “Combined descriptions of the valence excited states based on Density Functional Theory: TD-DFT with eDFT excitation energy corrections”. The ceremony will take place at the 50th Sanibel Symposium to be held at St. Simons Island,…
Dr. Jeff Ramsdell has been appointed director of the Appalachian Energy Center at Appalachian State University. Ramsdell received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from UCF. Read the article.
A discovery made in a UCF nanotechnology lab will likely become an over-the-counter cancer test kit in three to five years, thanks to a new commercialization grant. In 2009, Qun Huo and her team developed a new technique involving gold nanoparticles to help detect cancer. She then launched Nano Discovery, Inc., a medical research bioassay…
Dr. Stephen Lambert has received a four-year $1.9 million grant from NIH . . . Read the article from UCF Today.
AMPAC graduate student Othmane Benafan placed second in the American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Applied Mechanics Division student paper competition. The winners were selected in a three-step process: a first round selection of 30 semi-finalists from all submissions, a second round selection of 15 finalists who were then invited to make oral presentations in…
According to a news article published by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Dr. Artëm Masunov and his graduate student Workalemahu Mikre Berhanu were among the largest users of the newly established petascale supercomputing facility at Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The team used supercomputer time to identify which small molecules…
Mr. Joshua Bush (MS-MSE), working with Dr. Yongho Sohn on phase-field simulation, has been selected to receive a 2010 Summer Fellowship from National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan. He will be spending his 2010 summer at NIMS, working on phase-field simulation of multicomponent interdiffusion under supervision of Dr. Machiko Ode.