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Faculty members from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering took home some impressive hardware Monday during the University of Florida International Center’s 2025 Global Awards ceremony. 

University of Florida chemical engineering researcher Helena Hagelin Weaver, Ph.D., is uncovering how the structure of catalyst materials can dramatically improve the efficiency of methane conversion. Her team’s findings, recently published in ACS Catalysis, reveal how manipulating nanoscale support structures can boost methane oxidation at lower temperatures — a key step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enabling more sustainable chemical production.

ISE senior Corey Reynolds balances his passion for basketball with the precision of engineering as a student manager for the national champion Gators. From logistics to leadership, he’s learning what it takes to support a winning program on and off the court.

The University of Florida is part of a multi-university, interdisciplinary research team that will tackle the global challenge of halting corrosion of infrastructure, like bridges.  

UF researchers have developed a breakthrough CRISPR upgrade — called CRISPR-LEAP — that can target nearly any DNA sequence, potentially transforming cancer detection, infectious disease testing and personalized medicine.

For Hugo Ortega, a UF engineering-alumnus-turned-yacht-captain and reality star, being on Below Deck is a real-time test of the systems thinking and problem-solving skills he learned as a materials science major.

UF researcher Joel Harley, Ph.D., is set to co-direct the Accessible Healthcare through AI-Augmented Decisions (AHeAD) Center as an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC).

The Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, University of Florida’s engineering honor society, was awarded the 2025 R.C. Matthews Outstanding Chapter Award this month at the Tau Beta Pi national convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  

Researchers from the University of Florida have, for the first time, exposed security risks in portable genetic sequencers used around the world to sequence DNA.

Innovation was in the spotlight last week as UF Innovate | Tech Licensing celebrated the top six innovations of 2025 at its annual Standing InnOvation event. Four of the recognized technologies came from faculty researchers in the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.