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UCEM News Archive

Recent and historical news articles about the students and faculty in the Sloan UCEM at the University of South Florida.

May 16, 2022
Ossie Douglas Awarded NASA Space Technology Research Graduate Fellowship

February 25, 2022  
Interim Vice President Sylvia Wilson Thomas Featured in “Inside USF: The Podcast”

February 14, 2022  
Dr. Mauricio Arias’s Research Published in PNAS

February 11, 2022  
Drs. Rajiv Dubey, Anna Pyayt, Daniel Yeh, Loree Heller Elected Senior Members of NAI

February 9, 2022  
Dr. Ransford Hyman Named 2021 Adobe Founders’ Award Recipient

January 21, 2022  
Mariyah Pressley’s Research Highlighted by College of Arts and Sciences

December 7, 2021 
Dr. Norma Alcantar Named National Academy of Inventor Fellow

November 17, 2021  
Dr. Sylvia Thomas Named Interim Vice President of Research

November 11, 2021  
Dr. Maya Carrasquillo Featured in ACS Environmental Science & Technology Webinar

Sayde King Awarded GEM Consortium PhD Fellowship 

Dr. Nancy Diaz-Elsayed Selected as a William R. Jones Most Valuable Mentor Awardee

October 15, 2021  
Yoel Gebrai Published in Science of the Total Environment

October 11, 2021  
Dr. Michelle Guitard Named a 2021 USF Outstanding Dissertation Award Recipient

September 28, 2021  
Dr. Mauricio Arias Receives Early Career Research Fellowship

September 22, 2021  
Drs. Maya Trotz and Frank Mueller-Karger Awarded NSF Grant 

September 3, 2021 
Dr. Mya Breitbart Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

August 20, 2021  
Dr. Frank Muller-Karger Interviewed by MegaTV

August, 2021   
Dr. Pablo Cornejo-Warner Granted Tenure

July 19, 2021  
Dr. Sanjukta Bhanja Receives NSF Grant

August 16, 2021 
Dr. Joshua Candamo Named Tampa Bay Business Journal 2021 CIO of the Year

June 22, 2021 
Drs. Theresa Evans- Nguyen and Venkat Bhethanabotla Awarded NSF Grant

August 10, 2021  
Dr. Mya Breitbart’s Professional Development Course Featured in Nature Geoscience

July 29, 2021  
Dr. José Zayas-Castro Named NSF EEC Director

July 20, 2021  
Savannah Hartman’s Marine Remote Sensing Outreach Highlighted

July 1, 2021  
Troi Williams Selected for Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) 2021 cohort

July 1, 2021
Dr. Maya Trotz Receives Steven K. Dentel AEESP Award for Global Outreach

July 1, 2021  
Dr. Olukemi Akintewe Recognized as Faculty of the Year by USF BMES Student Chapter

June 28, 2021
Dr. Tempestt Neal Awarded McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship

June 17, 2021
Dr. Maya Carrasquillo Joins UC-Berkeley CEE Faculty

May 7, 2021
USF Team Selected to Join New NSF Diversity Program

May 4, 2021  
Drs.  Jeff Cunningham and James Mihelcic Receive NSF IRES Grant

April 29, 2021  
Dr. Norma Alcantar to be Inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame

April 2021
Joshua Benjamin Named a Winner of the 2021 OGS Virtual Symposium

April 25, 2021
Dr. Edikan Archibong Ogunnaike Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering

April 22, 2021  
Drs. Robert Byrne and Sudeep Sarkar Elected to Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida

April 8, 2021
Dr. Sudeep Sarkar Named Distinguished University Professor

April 8, 2021
Dr. Michael Cai Wang Published in Advanced Electronic Materials

April 2021
Sloan Scholars Receive 1st Place AEESP/EESF Social Media and Student Video Competition Award

March 29, 2021  
Dr. Mark Rains Named Florida’s New Science Officer

March 16, 2021
Drs. Tempestt Neal and Shaun Canavan Receive NSF Grant

March 15, 2021 
Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller Profiled During Women's History Month 

March 11, 2021 
Mariyah Pressley Published in Scientific Reports 

March 1, 2021  
Loraine Martell-Bonet Published in Florida Journal of Educational Research

February 26, 2021 
Celebrating Inclusive Excellence:  Michael Grady on Pursuing Greatness

February 19, 2021  
Amplifying Black Creatives: How Adobe's Black Employee Network Creates a Different Kind of Change (featuring Ransford Hyman)

February 4, 2021
Dr. William Mondy Awarded NSF I-Corps Grant

January 28, 2021
Dr. Robert Byrne Receives NSF Grant

January 8, 2021
Troi Williams Receives Koerner Family Foundation (KFF) Graduate Fellowship

January 6, 2021
Dr. Shamaria Engram Interviewed by WFLA-TV

December 17, 2020 
Dr. Sylvia Thomas Awarded NSF I-Corps Grant

September 29, 2020
Sabrina Rosa-Ortiz Awarded 2020 (SMTA) JoAnn Stromberg Scholarship

September 29, 2020
Sloan UCEM Faculty Awarded $1 Million EPA Grant

September 25, 2020 
Dr. Sriram Chellappan Awarded NSF Grant

August 5, 2020
Ilia Bautista-Adames Selected for GEM Ph.D. Fellowship by Intel

August 3, 2020
Frank Muller-Karger Creating Global Network to Help Save Biodiversity

July 17, 2020
Joseph Bonivel '10 Serves as Invited STEM Presenter on NMAAHC Virtual Webcast

July 16, 2020
Loraine Martell-Bonet Receives CMS Renate Bernstein Outstanding Authorship Award

July 15, 2020 
Sabrina Rosa-Ortiz Receives Intel Graduate SHPE Scholarship

July 9, 2020
USF College of Marine Science Diversity Efforts Highlighted

July 9, 2020
Sarina Ergas and John Kuhn Awarded NSF-BSF Grant

July 1, 2020
Kristen Buck is Studying Metals in the Gulf of Mexico

June 15, 2020
Erica Dasi Awarded Brown and Caldwell Eckenfelder Scholarship

June 1, 2020
Drs. Sylvia Thomas and Tempestt Neal Receive NSF COVID Grant

May 26, 2020
Karyna Rosario Discusses Water, Viruses, and Good Intentions

May 20, 2020
Amelia Shevenell Receives NSF Grant

May 20, 2020
Sarah Garcia Awarded DOD SMART Fellowship

May 1, 2020
Amelia Shevenell Receives NSF Grant  

April 24, 2020
Sylvia Thomas Receives NSF IRES Grant

March 25, 2020  
Sloan UCEM Receives Renewal

March 16, 2020
Sayde King Profile: Women in Computer Science