Category: Stories

GAINESVILLE, FLA – Amid a sea of bicycles and pedestrians, a racecar and its driver made a pitstop on the North Lawn yesterday afternoon. The #78 Nuclear Clean Air Energy car and its IZOD IndyCar driver Simona De Silvestro were on campus promoting STEM education and careers in the energy industry.  The College of Engineering […]

March 18, 2013 – “Today’s announcement has exactly the kind of impact on our students, faculty, citizens, and state that our college aspires to foster. If you look around the country at those regions which are known for being the focal point for job creation and innovation – the Bay Area, Austin – you will […]

Gator Engineering will be well represented at the University of Florida’s Office of Technology Licensing’s (OTL) 2013 Technology Showcase on March 14.  UF inventors who had technology licensed in 2012 will be honored with a plaque – created by Fracture, a local Gator Engineering start up company – at a recognition ceremony following the showcase. […]

‘Whit’ Whitney helps entrepreneurs build prototypes that can be taken to market David “Whit” Whitney came to Gainesville to further his career in real estate investment and ended up drawing on his experience in venture capital to get involved in local technology startup companies as mentor and investor. Through his Energent Ventures company, he has invested […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four UF College of Engineering faculty members have been inducted as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers because of their distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. They are: Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering […]

Some things get better with time. Take photoacoustic tomography (PAT), for example. In its 3-D edition, this imaging technology could paint a portrait of a brain. Add a fourth dimension – or, time – and you can use it to locate the focus of an epileptic seizure as it is taking place in that same […]

Earlier this month, Governor Rick Scott visited the College of Engineering, where he vocalized his support for making UF a Top 10 university, and strengthening the state’s workforce, by bolstering STEM education and research. While on campus, the governor toured the Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF), where he was presented with a unique gift.  Nowhere else […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — David M. Thomas, a 1971 University of Florida graduate with three decades of management and board experience at some of the world’s largest corporations, has been named to UF’s Board of Trustees. The appointment was made today by the Florida Board of Governors. As a senior vice president at IBM, Thomas led […]

A new collaboration between the University of Florida and Santa Fe College will expand enrollment for freshmen going into the College of Engineering. The program is called Gator Engineering @ Santa Fe, and it’s the brainchild of UF engineering dean Cammy Abernathy and numerous members of logistical departments from both institutions. The program will have […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The National Science Foundation has selected University of Florida engineering professor Pramod P. Khargonekar to serve as assistant director for the Directorate of Engineering, known as the ENG. Khargonekar, who will retain his position at UF, will lead the ENG directorate with an annual budget of more than $800 million. ENG invests in frontier engineering research […]