Category: Honors & Awards

The UF Chapter of iGEM dazzled 2024 Grand Jamboree judges, earning a gold medal for their research into sepsis, a life-threatening condition that results from the body’s dysregulated response to infection.

UF’s Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers named one of the strongest national chapters.

Two online engineering graduate programs at the University of Florida cracked the Top 15 – one hitting No. 10 – on U.S. News & World Report’s list of the 2025 Best Online Programs.

Cammy Abernathy, the transformative former dean of the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, retired from the University of Florida after more than 31 years of service as a professor, college administrator and institute director.

If Grammy Awards were given to faculty, Farimah Farahmandi, Ph.D., would top the nominations list. Fact is, she is often called “rockstar” in the halls and labs of the University of Florida’s Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department. Since joining the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering in 2019, Farahmandi has consistently set a high bar […]

University of Florida engineering professor David O. Prevatt, Ph.D., is one of four U.S. professors selected by the U.S. Department of State to join its 2024-2025 cohort of Jefferson Science Fellows.

Fan Ren, Ph.D., a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Florida, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors , the organization announced today.

UF’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) chapter was selected as one of six Gold Chapters of the Year by the national organization.

At its Fall 2024 initiation ceremony and banquet, Tau Beta Pi Florida Alpha initiated more than 65 new student members but also honored engineering professors – and now Eminent Engineers – Pamela Dickrell, Robert Ferl, Jian Li, and Juan Gilbert.

NIH New Innovator Award recipients and engineering professors Adam Khalifa and Xiao Fan are advancing medical research in groundbreaking ways. Khalifa is working with microscopic, injectable devices, while Fan is exploring DNA functionality using language models.