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Dr. Walden C. (Wally) Rhines, whose father, Dr. Fred Rhines, founded the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at UF, continued his father\u2019s legacy in support of the department when he made a\u00a0gift of $1 million\u00a0to establish the Rhines Rising Star Professorships<\/a>. Dr. Fred Rhines established the department on the talents and promise of early career faculty with the philosophy that outstanding people want to work with other outstanding people. This gift, says Wally, will continue to honor his father\u2019s legacy to support assistant professors of this caliber. According to Dr. Michele Manuel, Chair for the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, \u201cThe Rhines family is an important part of the department\u2019s past and future, and we are grateful for their continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n

The professorships will not only bear the Rhines name, they will also include the names of two outstanding pioneering faculty in honor of their service to the department \u2013 Dr. Robert DeHoff and Dr. Larry Hench. Drs. DeHoff and Hench were both in the early phase of their careers when Dr. Fred Rhines hired them. Dr. Hench joined the department in 1964, where he invented Bioglass, the first man-made material to bond with living tissues and which is now used to repair bones, joints and teeth.\u00a0 Dr. DeHoff joined the department during its founding year in 1959 and was Dr. Fred Rhines\u2019 final Ph.D. student at Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. DeHoff became an expert in thermodynamics, writing the first and second editions of Thermodynamics of Materials Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n

With a $1 million gift that establishes the Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Professorships in Computer Science, the Goldbergs are powering the New Engineer by enabling research into technology such as machine learning and artificial intelligence that helps detect, protect and restore security in the cyber and physical systems. Mr. Goldberg summed up his vision for the benefits the professorships will bring to the CISE department, \u201cI have personally witnessed the opportunity that a degree in computer science will afford an individual.\u00a0I wanted to accelerate the awareness and stature of UF\u2019s CISE department as a preeminent destination to get that degree.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEndowed professorships carry a level of prestige that positively reflects on the department, our faculty and their research. We are thankful for the Goldbergs\u2019 support,\u201d said Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and CISE department chair. Dr. Gilbert and Cammy R. Abernathy, Ph.D., Dean of the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, named associate professors Dr. Kevin R. B. Butler and Dr. Daisy Zhe Wang as holders of the Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Professorships<\/a> for their contributions to the field of computer science.<\/p>\n

Dean Cammy R. Abernathy, Ph.D., Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We are very thankful to our alumni who provided the gifts that helped us attract and retain these gifted young academicians. These promising investigators from diverse backgrounds will become the innovators and leaders who will define the fields of engineering over the next ten years. They are our future \u2013 from the halls of our college to the expanses of our global community.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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