{"id":28,"date":"2020-06-23T14:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/physics\/kang-group\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:20:52","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/physics\/kang-group\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Honors and Awards (E.H. Kang)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>UCF College of Sciences High Impact or High-Quality Instruction Award (2024)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">NSF CMMI Game Changer Academies (<em>CGCA<\/em>) Panel Fellow<\/span> (2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanoscience.ucf.edu\/news\/index.php?id=394\">NSF CAREER Award<\/a> (2020-2025)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/31-ucf-faculty-members-honored-for-womens-history-month-2020\/\">UCF Women\u2019s History Month Honor<\/a> (2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/advance.fiu.edu\/programs\/advance-florida-network\/awardees\/index.html\">Advance Florida Network Women in STEM Scholar Travel Award<\/a> (2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/floridaspacegrant.org\/\">NASA Florida Space Research Program Award<\/a> (2019)<\/li>\n<li>UCF In-House grant award (2016-2017)<\/li>\n<li>Biophysical Society Committee for Professional Opportunities for Women Travel Award (2015)<\/li>\n<li>American Society for Cell Biology Postdoctoral Travel Award (2012)<\/li>\n<li>NSF CMMI Grantees and Research Conference Travel Award (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Kang Group Members&#8217; Awards<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Alyssa Boyd<\/strong>, UCF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award (2025)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alyssa Boyd<\/strong>, Judge&#8217;s Choice Award, UCF Student Scholar Symposium (Undergraduate, STEM category) (2025)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abdulrazak Kalae<\/strong>, <b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Founders&#8217; Day<\/b>\u00a0<b><span class=\"markt9a4c47ik\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Outstanding<\/span>\u00a0Honors Undergraduate\u00a0<span class=\"marktz4e8widh\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Thesis<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"mark1p91c84e7\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Award <\/span><\/b><span class=\"mark1p91c84e7\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">in the category of Natural Sciences<\/span>\u00a0(2025)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ahad Ansari<\/strong>, Honors Undergraduate Thesis Scholarship, UCF Burnett Honors College (2024)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bryan Demosthene<\/strong>, Biophysical Society Meeting Travel Award (2024)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor Douglas<\/strong>, Biophysical Society Meeting Travel Award (2024)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abdulrazak Kalae<\/strong>, Honors Undergraduate Thesis Scholarship, UCF Burnett Honors College (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sydney Paulin<\/strong>, Poster Award, American Chemical Society FAME Conference (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abdulrazak Kalae<\/strong>, Emerging Fellow, UCF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brianna Ariza<\/strong>, UCF Student Scholar Symposium, Judge&#8217;s Choice Distinction (Graduate, STEM category) (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor Douglas<\/strong>, 1st place Poster Award, NanoBiotechnology Category, NanoFlorida International Conference, UCF (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sydney Paulin<\/strong>,\u00a01st place Poster Award, Undergraduate Posters Category, NanoFlorida International Conference, UCF (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brianna Ariza<\/strong>, UCF L.E.A.R.N. Mentor Scholarship (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moitri Santra<\/strong>, first place in plant sciences category at the seminole county regional science fair (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bryan Demosthene<\/strong>, 2nd place Poster Award, American Chemical Society FAME Conference, Palm Harbor, FL (2022)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sydney Paulin<\/strong>, Emerging Fellow, UCF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2022)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sydney Paulin<\/strong>, UCF Student Scholar Symposium, Judge&#8217;s Choice Distinction (Undergrad, STEM category) (2022)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pavlo Kravchuk, <\/strong>UCF Student Scholar Symposium, Judge&#8217;s Choice Award (Graduate, STEM category) (2022)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pavlo Kravchuk, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/10-ucf-graduate-students-awarded-florida-space-grant-consortium-fellowships\/\">2021-2022 FSGC Thesis Improvement Fellowship<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor Douglas<\/strong>, UCF Summer Mentoring Fellowship (2021)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bryan Demosthene<\/strong>, 2021-2022 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pavlo Kravchuk<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanoscience.ucf.edu\/news\/index.php?id=404\">Graduate award, UCF Student Scholar Virtual Symposium<\/a> (2021)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicholas Castaneda<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/med.ucf.edu\/news\/virtual-bsbs-graduate-symposium-showcases-student-research\/\">1<sup>st<\/sup> place in the 15<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Symposium<\/a> (2021)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicholas Castaneda<\/strong>, Virtual travel award, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting (2021)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jinho Park<\/strong>, Virtual travel award, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting (2021)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tevin Um<\/strong>, HUT Scholarship, UCF Burnett Honors College (2020)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ahad Ansari<\/strong> (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)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Heidings<\/strong>, MAC Travel Award, American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jinho Park<\/strong>, UCF Graduate Presentation Fellowship (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Castaneda<\/strong>, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place Poster Award, NanoFlorida International Conference, USF (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Castaneda<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-doctoral-student-wins-highly-competitive-chateaubriand-fellowship\/\">2019-2020 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship<\/a> (2019) *<em>Featured in UCF Today<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nouha Acouri<\/strong>, Emerging Fellow, UCF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Myeongsang Lee<\/strong>, Poster Award, American Chemical Society FAME Conference (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Castaneda<\/strong>, Best Poster Presentation Award, UCF Graduate Research Forum (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Heidings<\/strong>, Best Oral Presentation Award, UCF Graduate Research Forum (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zach Untracht<\/strong>, Best Poster Presentation Award, UCF Graduate Research Forum (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bryan Demosthene<\/strong>, Judges\u2019 Choice distinction, UCF Undergraduate Showcase (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Castaneda<\/strong>, Best Poster Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIT (2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Heidings<\/strong>, Best Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIT (2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zach Untracht<\/strong>, Best Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIT (2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zach Untracht<\/strong>, first place, Poster Presentation Award, MISA symposium (2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Castaneda<\/strong>, UCF ORC Fellowship (2017-2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jinho Park<\/strong>, UCF ORC Fellowship (2017-2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angie Diaz<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridaspacegrant.org\/programs\/fellowships\/2017-fellows\/\">Florida Space Grant Consortium Master&#8217;s Thesis Fellowship<\/a> (2017-2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angie Diaz<\/strong>, Best Poster Presentation Award, UCF Graduate Research Forum (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angie Diaz<\/strong>, second place Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIU (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Castaneda<\/strong>, third place Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIU (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amirah Mathin<\/strong>, third place Oral Presentation Award, NanoFlorida, FIU (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Castaneda<\/strong>, Florida American Vacuum Society (FL-AVS) Poster Award (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amirah Mathin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icorps.cie.ucf.edu\/sub\/blackmine-technologies\/\">UCF Innovation Corps, BlackMINE Technologies funded by NSF<\/a> (2016-2017)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Honors and Awards (E.H. 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