Piyush Jain, Ph.D., CHE, has been working on a test for the novel coronavirus that can be administered at home in less than 30 minutes.
UF Engineers Receive NSF Early CAREER Awards to Support Innovative Research
The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida is pleased to announce that six faculty members have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Awards in 2020.
UF Engineering Continues Momentum in Graduate Program Rankings
The UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering has once again ranked among the top 25 public university graduate engineering programs in the U.S., according to the 2021 U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) Best Graduate Schools rankings.
Hibbitts Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
David Hibbitts, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award winner.
UF Engineer Examines CRISPR Technology in CANCER Therapy
For the first time in the United States, a gene editing tool has been used to treat advanced cancer in three patients and showed promising early results in a pilot phase 1 clinical trial.
31 Faculty Awarded University Term Professorships
The University Term Professorship was established in 2016 and is presented to 250 eligible faculty members annually. Selection of University Term Professorships is based on an assessment of academic accomplishment by either a faculty advisory committee and/or the department chair and approved by the dean. Each award runs for 3 years and provides a $5,000/year salary supplement to the awardee.
Rocket Engineer Recalls Role In Apollo 11 Mission
William Van Duyn, once a student in the UF Department of Chemical Engineering, became an engineer on the Saturn rockets that took Apollo astronauts to the moon
UF Biomedical Engineer Pursues Understanding of Natural Killer Cells
Blanka Sharma, Ph.D., receives Early Career Award from National Science Foundation to study ways to kill cancer cells.
Three Engineering Faculty Named UF Research Foundation Professors for 2019-2022
Read StoryUF Attends ExxonMobil Laboratory Safety Workshop
ExxonMobil Hosts Graduate Students for Laboratory Safety Workshop Company takes the lead in advancing safety practices at six universities BAYTOWN, TEXAS – ExxonMobil’s Baytown Technology and Engineering Center recently hosted 80 graduate students from six universities for its annual Partners in Academic Laboratory Safety (PALS) Workshop. Now in its fifth year, the PALS program establishes mentoring relationships between ExxonMobil and …