Category: Honors & Awards

UF Tau Beta Pi Honor Society honors Eminent Engineers
November 25, 2024At 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.
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NIH offers high reward for UF high risk health innovations
November 4, 2024NIH 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.
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Christine Schmidt elected to National Academy of Medicine
October 21, 2024University of Florida Distinguished Professor Christine Schmidt has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. This prestigious honor follows her election earlier this year to the National Academy of Engineering, making her one of the few exceptional individuals to be recognized by both academies.
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President Biden appoints UF professor to National Science Board
October 16, 2024President Joe Biden has appointed University of Florida distinguished computer science Professor Juan Gilbert, Ph.D., to the National Science Board.
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UF biomedical engineer inducted into prestigious National Academy of Engineering
October 1, 2024Christine Schmidt, a UF distinguished professor, was honored Sunday among some of the country’s most notable engineers when she was formally inducted into the 2024 class of the National Academy of Engineering.
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American dream: Taiwan-born UF professor wins prestigious NASA award
July 2, 2024On this Fourth of July, UF MAE professor Jacob Chung, Ph.D., stands as the epitome of the American Dream.
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2023-2024 awards for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
June 13, 2024The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering presented its annual awards to faculty, staff, and students for the 2022-2023 academic year on April 22, 2024. These awards celebrate the excellence and fundamental values of our college.
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Eight UF engineering faculty honored with prestigious NSF CAREER Awards
May 29, 2024The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering proudly announces that eight of our faculty members have been honored with the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Awards.
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UF engineering students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
May 17, 2024Ten students from the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering were selected to receive awards from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for their exemplary work and contributions to their departments. The NSF GRFP recognizes outstanding graduate students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) […]
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2024 AI Educator of the Year awardees
May 17, 2024Three Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Faculty were chosen to receive the 2024 AI Awards in recognition of their expertise in adopting, implementing, creatively using, and championing AI.
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