Category: Stories

Erin Wallace stands on Route 66 in front of Flo’s V8 Café at Disney’s California Adventure. Out of the corner of her eye, she catches a flash of red as Lightning McQueen zips between the crowds. It’s another one of those Disney days, she thinks. As executive vice president of operations integration for Walt Disney […]

Originally posted on Gainesville.com Hyundai Hope on Wheels awarded University of Florida cancer researcher Wesley Bolch a $250,000 grant to support childhood cancer research. Bolch is working on a technique to deliver radionuclides directly to bone tumors to spare normal bone tissue in children with bone cancers such as osteosarcoma and Ewing’s sarcoma. Bolch is […]

On August 18, 2012, the Gator Engineering community lost a leader, a teacher, a colleague and a friend – Robert B. Gaither, professor and chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1965-1992. Bob was a visionary.  At the time he was chairman at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, there was no PhD program. He […]

On Thursday, Sept. 13, the UF Engineering Innovation Institute will feature a lecture from International Network Services founder Don McKinney. The talk, entitled “Technology Entrepreneurship – Engineering The Future,” will be held in the New Engineering Building Room 102 at 9:45 a.m.   Don is a private investor focused on IT-Services, Internet and networking, software […]

Bank of America recently appointed four new people to its Board of Directors. Among them is Gator Engineering alumna Linda Hudson (B.S. ISE ’72). Hudson is the President & CEO of BAE Systems Inc. She leads approximately 43,000 employees in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Israel, and South Africa. Prior to joining BAE Systems, she […]

Environmental Engineering assistant professor Barron Henderson and his graduate students spent the week in Isaac’s path, collecting data and monitoring the storm. As part of a larger effort by the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) toward building houses to better withstand hurricanes, Henderson, along with fellow “storm chaser” Forrest Masters, an associate […]

Josseline Paulino arrived at Preview this summer with a clear career path in mind. Although she has wanted to become a doctor since about age 12, she never considered majoring in biomedical engineering to get there. When the major was introduced at Preview, Paulino’s interest piqued. “I thought it was really cool, so I looked […]

Story originally posted on Gainesville.com Gainesville company Altavian announced Monday that it had received a five-year contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to maintain and support its unmanned aircraft used for surveys and inspections in Florida and Puerto Rico. The Army Corps’ Jacksonville District had a contract since October 2011 to use Altavian’s […]

Every day, Gators roam the halls of UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center, in the form of fans, students, faculty and even mascot Albert the Alligator. But never had an alligator crawled through the doors at Shands Hospital for Children at the University of Florida until Friday, when pediatric patients stepped outside their […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida electrical engineering major Matthew Feldman, who is conducting research this summer at Rice University in Houston, broke a Guinness World Record for joggling – jogging and juggling – Friday at the Rice University running track. Feldman jogged one mile while simultaneously juggling five balls in 6 minutes, 33.65 seconds; […]