Category: Stories

Raise your beaker in a Valentine’s Day toast and say, “Awww.” There are sweet love stories afoot in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

The academy, known as NAE, announced this week its 2026 membership roster includes Wally Rhines, CEO and director of Texas-based Silvaco and a member of multiple advisory boards within the University of Florida’s College of Engineering.    

When gold medalist Erin Jackson laces up her skates and puts on her game face for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, her stateside cheering squad will include many rowdy reptiles.

UF researchers found that aluminum light poles damaged during Hurricane Ian failed not because of extreme winds alone, but due to a combination of manufacturing defects, design features and installation errors that reduced their built-in safety margins.

Two online engineering graduate programs at the University of Florida made the Top 15 on U.S. News & World Report’s list of the 2025 Best Online Engineering Programs. 

UF engineer and electron microscopy expert Nicholas Rudawski uses YouTube to help others learn to operate electron microscopes and understand electron microscopy concepts and fundamentals.  

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering awarded three faculty members with endowed professorships this month thanks to Nvidia co-founder and University of Florida engineering graduate Chris Malachowsky.  

Ana Maria Porras, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been named a 2026 Emerging Leader by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering proudly recognizes faculty and staff who have reached significant service milestones at UF in 2026, honoring 25, 30, 35 and 40 years of dedicated service. 

The Gator Robotics team and their battle bots Steggy and Termigator placed well in December’s National Havoc Robot League World Championships.