Awards

Swetha Barkam has been selected for induction into the Order of Pegasus Class of 2016. She will be recognized at the Order of Pegasus award ceremony on April 4, 2016. Order of Pegasus is the most prestigious and significant award a student can attain at the University of Central Florida. Order of Pegasus recognizes exemplary…

Materials engineering student Nileshi Saraf won second prize in the materials, devices and applied research category for her poster, “Role of Gold Nanoparticle Size and Shape on the Sensitivity of Aptasensor Development” at the 2016 FLAVS/FSM symposium. She was one of several members of Professor Sudipta Seal’s research group who participated in the poster presentations.…

Steven Heller has been awarded a Research and Mentoring Program fellowship with Sudipta Seal, Ph.D. as his advisor. RAMP is designed to provide undergraduate students, who may be interested in pursuing graduate education, with research experience while working closely with a faculty mentor. In addition, the students participate in a variety of workshops designed to…

Swetha Barkam is a recipient of the 2015-2016 Alumni Fellows Graduate Scholarship in the amount of $1,500. Barkam is a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and a member of Sudipta Seal’s research group. Applicants were evaluated on GPA, well-rounded involvement at UCF, involvement in the local community, and exceptional work…

Several members of Professor Sudipta Seal’s research group won awards at the 2015 AVS Florida Meeting. The Annual Joint Symposium and Exhibition of the Florida Chapter of the AVS Science and Technology Society and the Florida Society for Microscopy was held March 9-10 at UCF. The symposium consisted of a plenary lecture, technical sessions with…

Ph.D. candidate Swetha Barkam is a winner of the 2013-2014 SGA Campus Student Involvement Scholarship. The $250 award is presented to outstanding students who demonstrate exceptional involvement in the UCF community. Barkam is a member of Sudipta Seal’s research group. Her research focus includes interaction and application of nanoparticles in biology. Barkam previously won the…

Graduate students Le Zhou and Shashank Saraf have been awarded UCF’s Graduate Research Excellence Fellowship. The UCF College of Graduate Studies presents the fellowship annually to outstanding graduate students who have excellent research backgrounds and proposals for the thesis or dissertation phase of their graduate degree programs. The fellowship is a supplement to the students’…

UCF students won two poster awards at the 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Orlando. The competition was highly competitive, and, after several rounds of judging, only four awards were presented among 84 posters from presenters around the country and abroad. The following UCF students and faculty were honored: 1st Place, Solid State “Room temperature hydrogen…

Swetha Barkam and Rameech McCormack have been awarded scholarships for the 2014-15 academic year. Both students are members of Sudipta Seal’s research group and the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Barkam, a Ph.D. candidate, will receive the Austin L. Grogan Memorial Scholarship for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering majors. The award is worth $500. Her…

Rameech McCormack was honored at the FGLSAMP Expo 2014 in Jacksonville. His engineering poster won first place at the conference. Rameech is an undergraduate in Sudipta Seal’s research group. His work focuses on sensors and materials characterization. In October, Rameech was the only undergraduate winner of the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization’s 2013 Student Award. He also…