Accolades, Facts & Figures

Cross-department research team earns Wason Medal for Materials Research(opens in a new tab)

The American Concrete Institute, or ACI, awarded the Wason Medal for Materials Research to a research team anchored by faculty members across three departments in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

Bolch named inaugural Chang & Szalay Samaritan Biologics Endowed Professor(opens in a new tab)

Thanks to a $1 million gift from Samaritan Biologics and its co-founders, Distinguished Professor Wesley E. Bolch, Ph.D., has been named the inaugural Chang & Szalay Samaritan Biologics Endowed Professor in Biomedical Engineering.

‘An opportunity to honor’: How a lifelong friendship sealed an ESSIE endowed professorship(opens in a new tab)

The Robert Thieke Endowed Professorship was established in 2025 to honor Thieke upon his retirement after 35 years at UF.

MSE Chair Tonks awarded American Nuclear Society Fellowship(opens in a new tab)

Michael Tonks, Ph.D., the newly appointed chair of Material Science & Engineering, is celebrating another honor: He was recently selected as a fellow of the American Nuclear Society, known as ANS.

Taylor and Waisome receive inaugural fellowships from UF’s Engineering Leadership Institute(opens in a new tab)

University of Florida’s Engineering Leadership Institute, known as ELI, recently appointed Curtis Taylor, Ph.D., and Jeremy Macgruder Waisome, Ph.D., as inaugural Faculty Fellows.

UF BME faculty named Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Term Fellows(opens in a new tab)

Faculty members May Mansy, Ph.D., Ana Maria Porras, Ph.D., and Brittany Taylor, Ph.D., have been selected as Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Term Fellows in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida.