January, 2008: Dr. Stephen M. Kuebler was awarded a CAREER Grant by the National Science Foundation. This award (no. 0748712) is supported jointly by the Division of Materials Research and the Chemistry Division of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate. The award, entitled "CAREER: Three-Dimensional Multi-Scale Metallodielectric Materials", provides support over a period of five years for the investigation of new processes for creating optically functional three-dimensional metallo-dielectric meta-materials.

September, 2006:

Dr. Stephen Kuebler's research group has developed a new approach for fabricating three-dimensional metal-polymer composite micro-structures. The approach opens new routes to photonic materials and devices with novel optical properties. This research was featured on the Aug. 2006 cover of "Advanced Functional Materials". To learn more about the Kuebler group, go to their home page at http://npm.creol.ucf.edu.

December, 2005: 2005 Outstanding Four Year College Teacher Award – Orlando Chapter of the American Chemical Society.

October, 2005: Kevin D. Belfield (PI) and Andres D. Campiglia (co-PI) received the Type H award from The Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society. The endowment includes $31,080 for "Optical, Photonic, and Electronic Materials ACS-PRF Summer School." The objective of the ACS PRF Summer School on Optical, Photonic, and Electronic Materials, to be held at UCF in June 2006, is to bring aspiring chemists at relatively early stages of their careers, along with faculty from two-year colleges, for an intensive educational experience in cutting edge materials that are used in a number of emerging technologies.

October, 2005: Eric W. Van Stryland (PI), along with Kevin D. Belfield (co-PI) and David J. Hagan (co-PI), received a research grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Absorption and Refraction," award number ECS-0524533, 8/2005-7/2008, $240,001.

August, 2005: Otto Phanstiel (PI) and Saleh Naser were awarded a grant renewal from the Broad Medical Research Program for their work on polyamines and inflammatory bowel disease ($50,000).

July, 2005: Otto Phanstiel (PI), Thomas Selby and Martin Richardson were awarded funding from Mannkind Biopharmaceuticals to study proprietary drug delivery technologies ($184,551).

May, 2005: Howard Miles has been recommended as a 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipient. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

April, 2005: Otto Phanstiel and Todd Meyer were each awarded the Florida Hospital Gala Endowed Award for Oncological Research ($7500).

January, 2005: Mike Sigman and his co-investigators, Andrew Campiglia and Kevin Belfield, received a contract for a grant from DARPA.

December, 2004: Carrie Whitcomb, director of the NCFS, received a 'Four-Timer' award from the Office of Research and Commercialization. This award is presented to faculty who have received $1 Million or more in research funding for four consecutive years.

December, 2004: Florencio Eloy Hernández received the 2004 Outstanding Chemist award from the Orlando Section of the American Chemical Society.

August, 2004: Otto Phanstiel (PI) and Saleh Naser (co-PI) were awarded a grant from the Broad Medical Research Program to study the role of polyamines in inflammatory bowel disease ($138,059).

August, 2004: Alfons Schulte (PI), Otto Phanstiel, Mike Sigman, Suren Tatulian, and Sudipta Seal were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the Acquisition of a Novel Raman and Fourier-Transform Infrared Microscope for Research and Education in Bio-materials, Nanoscience, and Forensics ($177,685).

April, 2004: Prof. Hampton just returned from Russia where he has been on a grant program. He has been asked to be the editor of a Russian Journal.

April, 2004: Prof. Kevin D. Belfield received a $60,000 award from the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation to support research collaboration with Dr. Mykhailo V. Bondar and colleagues at the Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine for "Two-Photon Induced Photochemical Processes in Organic Materials".

April, 2004: Drs. Geiger and Clausen have been awarded grants totaling $70,000.

December, 2003: Dr. Christian A. Clausen was named a 2003 ACS Outstanding Chemist for the Orlando, Florida region. [ View Press Release ]

December, 2003: Dr. Brooks Madsen was named the ACS Outstanding Teacher at a Four-Year College for the Orlando, Florida region. [ View Press Release ]

December, 2003: Dr. Howard Miles received three patents, so far, for organic compounds that may one day be made low-toxicity medicines. [ View Press Release ]

September, 2003: Steven M. Kuebler's research proposal, PRF# 42322-G5, on the topic of "Polypeptide Nano-Templating: A New Method for Creating Metal and Semiconductor Nanoscale Structures with 3D Shape Control," was recommended for funding by the ACS PRF Advisory Board for $35,000.

April, 2003: Kevin D. Belfield received the University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, a Research Incentive Award, and a Florida Teaching Incentive Program at this year's UCF awards ceremony.

December, 2002: Kevin D. Belfield was named one of the 2002 Outstanding Chemists by the American Chemical Society Orlando Section.

April, 2002: Otto Phanstiel received Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and Research Incentive awards at this year's UCF awards ceremony.

January, 2002: Otto Phanstiel was awarded a grant from the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation to study polyamine transport in cancer cells ($83,500).