Awards

Jain Receives the UF Provost’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors

Piyush K. Jain, Ph.D.

Piyush K. Jain, Ph.D., an assistant professor and Shah Rising Star Professor in the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering, has received the UF Provost’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors for 2023. The awards are focused on junior faculty and recognize excellence in research. Dr.… Read More

Three ChE Assistant Professors Receive the NIH Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA)

Three ChE Assistant Professors Receive the NIH Maximizing Investigator's Research Award (MIRA)

Three faculty at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35 Early-Stage Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA). Each researcher was awarded a five-year, $1.8+ million… Read More

ENGINEERING THE HI-FI BRAIN

KEVIN OTTO, PH.D., PROFESSOR AND SENIOR ASSOCIATE CHAIR IN THE J. CRAYTON PRUITT FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, AND MARK ORAZEM, PH.D., DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

A Public-Private UF Collaboration Seeks to Optimize Clinical Outcomes by Pumping Up the Volume Through Novel Neuroprotheses Fabrication Every audiophile long ago celebrated the quantum leap from stereo to multichannel for their immersive listening experience. Now, through a $4.5 million… Read More