Highlights

Honors and Awards (E.H. Kang)

• UCF College of Sciences High Impact or High-Quality Instruction Award (2024)
• NSF CMMI Game Changer Academies (CGCA) Panel Fellow (2023)
• NSF CAREER Award (2020-2025)
• UCF Women’s History Month Honor (2020)
• Advance Florida Network Women in STEM Scholar Travel Award (2020)
• NASA Florida Space Research Program Award (2019)
• UCF In-House grant award (2016-2017)
• Biophysical Society Committee for Professional Opportunities for Women Travel Award (2015)
• American Society for Cell Biology Postdoctoral Travel Award (2012)
• NSF CMMI Grantees and Research Conference Travel Award (2009)

Kang Group Members’ Awards

1. Bryan Demosthene, Biophysical Society Meeting Travel Award (2024)
2. Taylor Douglas, Biophysical Society Meeting Travel Award (2024)
3. Abdulrazak Kalae, Honors Undergraduate Thesis Scholarship, UCF Burnett Honors College (2023)
4. Sydney Paulin, Poster Award, American Chemical Society FAME Conference (2023)
5. Abdulrazak Kalae, Emerging Fellow, UCF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2023)
6. Brianna Ariza, UCF Student Scholar Symposium, Judge’s Choice Distinction (Graduate, STEM category) (2023)
7. Taylor Douglas, 1st place Poster Award, NanoBiotechnology Category, NanoFlorida International Conference, UCF (2023)
8. Sydney Paulin, 1st place Poster Award, Undergraduate Posters Category, NanoFlorida International Conference, UCF (2023)
9. Brianna Ariza, UCF L.E.A.R.N. Mentor Scholarship (2023)
10. Moitri Santra, first place in plant sciences category at the seminole county regional science fair (2023)
11. Bryan Demosthene, 2nd place Poster Award, American Chemical Society FAME Conference, Palm Harbor, FL (2022)
12. Sydney Paulin, Emerging Fellow, UCF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2022)
13. Sydney Paulin, UCF Student Scholar Symposium, Judge’s Choice Distinction (Undergrad, STEM category) (2022)
14. Pavlo Kravchuk, UCF Student Scholar Symposium, Judge’s Choice Award (Graduate, STEM category) (2022)
15. Pavlo Kravchuk, 2021-2022 FSGC Thesis Improvement Fellowship
16. Taylor Douglas, UCF Summer Mentoring Fellowship (2021)
17. Bryan Demosthene, 2021-2022 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship
18. Pavlo Kravchuk, Graduate award, UCF Student Scholar Virtual Symposium (2021)
19. Nicholas Castaneda, 1^st place in the 15^th Annual Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Symposium (2021)
20. Nicholas Castaneda, Virtual travel award, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting (2021)
21. Jinho Park, Virtual travel award, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting (2021)
22. Tevin Um, HUT Scholarship, UCF Burnett Honors College (2020)
23. Ahad Ansari (high school student), first place in Biomedical Sciences and award from the Society of the In Vitro Biology at the Dr. Ying Nelson Orange County Science Exposition (2020)
24. Jim Heidings, MAC Travel Award, American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting (2019)
25. Jinho Park, UCF Graduate Presentation Fellowship (2019)
26. Nick Castaneda, 3^rd place Poster Award, NanoFlorida International Conference, USF (2019)
27. Nick Castaneda, 2019-2020 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship (2019) *Featured in UCF Today
28. Nouha Acouri, Emerging Fellow, UCF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2019)
29. Dr. Myeongsang Lee, Poster Award, American Chemical Society FAME Conference (2019)
30. Nick Castaneda, Best Poster Presentation Award, UCF Graduate Research Forum (2019)
31. Jim Heidings, Best Oral Presentation Award, UCF Graduate Research Forum (2019)
32. Zach Untracht, Best Poster Presentation Award, UCF Graduate Research Forum (2019)
33. Bryan Demosthene, Judges’ Choice distinction, UCF Undergraduate Showcase (2019)
34. Nick Castaneda, Best Poster Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIT (2018)
35. Jim Heidings, Best Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIT (2018)
36. Zach Untracht, Best Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIT (2018)
37. Zach Untracht, first place, Poster Presentation Award, MISA symposium (2018)
38. Nick Castaneda, UCF ORC Fellowship (2017-2018)
39. Jinho Park, UCF ORC Fellowship (2017-2018)
40. Angie Diaz, Florida Space Grant Consortium Master’s Thesis Fellowship (2017-2018)
41. Angie Diaz, Best Poster Presentation Award, UCF Graduate Research Forum (2017)
42. Angie Diaz, second place Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIU (2017)
43. Nick Castaneda, third place Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIU (2017)
44. Amirah Mathin, third place Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIU (2017)
45. Nick Castaneda, Florida American Vacuum Society (FL-AVS) Poster Award (2017)
46. Amirah Mathin, UCF Innovation Corps, BlackMINE Technologies funded by NSF (2016-2017)