NEWS AND AWARDS

  • Congratulations Disha Iyengar for receiving the CESC HUT Award !
  • Life-Saving Spongelike “Bandage” Developed by UCF Researchers Rapidly Stops Hemorrhaging and Mitigates Risk of Infection.Kausik Mukhopadhyay, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at UCF, and Prita Sarkar, a graduate student in the material science department at UCF, test their spongelike hemostatic bandage known as “SilFoam” on a mannequin. The sponge-like foam quickly acts to stop hemorrhaging. A great achievement. Congrats !
  • Suvash joins the lab as a Post Doc. !
  • Anya joins the lab as a High School Researcher !
  • Disha Iyengar received the September Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher Award. Congratulation!
  • Micah Wilkerson joins the lab as a PhD student !
  • Amanda joins the lab as a Graduate Researcher !
  • Suvash Ghimire received Ph.D. in summer-24. Congratulations to him !
  • Pritha Sarkar presents at GRC Polymer Physics,South Hadley, Massachusetts
  • Md. Roxy Islam presents at ACS Fall -24 (Denver)
  • Pritha Sarkar presents at GRC Hemostasis, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
  • Md. Roxy Islam received ECI Nanoconvergence for Sustainable Energy, Environment, Climate Change and Health: a U.S.-Africa Conference award
  • Pritha Sarkar presents at WBC 2024, Daegu, South Korea
  • Sofia joined as a summer REU student from Notre dame !
  • Pritha Sarkar attends at BioPacific MIP Summer School, UCLA
  • Publication "Effect of clay-zwitterionic interactions in controlling the viscoelastic properties in organomodified clays" featured on the cover page of iScience!
  • Md Roxy Islam joins the lab as a PhD student!
  • Dr. Priyanka Makkar joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar!
  • Alexandre Bonnin from ESIREM, Dijon, France, joins the lab as a graduate summer intern!
  • Pritha presents at the SFB 2023 Annual Meet.
  • Pritha receives AMPP student scholarship award!
  • Undergraduate researcher Disha joins the lab!
  • Suvash presents at ECS 2022 conference (Atlanta).
  • PhD student Pritha presents at the ESB 2022 conference (Bordeaux, France).
  • Undergraduate Researcher Sergey joins the lab!
  • Recent Publication in Catalysis Science and Technology selected as cover article!
  • PhD student Suvash wins Best Poster Award at MRS Spring Meet 2022 (Hawaii).
  • Undergraduate researcher Ryan for receives SURF award.
  • Undergraduate Researchers Ryan and Rhondra receive an OUR Summer Award.