Materials Advantage Society

Congrats Alek on becoming the Material Advantage Society Student Chapter President at UCF. Lead on – Alek! 

Successful Undergraduate Honors Thesis Defense 

A heart congrats to Nick Rose for passing his Undergraduate Honors Thesis defense with flying colors on “Algorithms for Characterizing Motion-Based Energy Harvesting Reproducibility”

New Group Member

Dr. Ayuushi Datta joins the Crawford Lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome, Ayuushi! 

Research in 60 Seconds

Check out this Research in 60 Seconds video by our team member Nick. Way to go Nick! 

Award Alert

Congrats to Nick for receiving a Judges' Choice Poster Award at UCF’s Student Symposium Showcase for his excellent research work and presentation. 

Play Time! 

The Crawford group goes bowling.

Award Alert 

Dr. Crawford is awarded a 2024 ACS PMSE Early Investigator Award. The ACS PMSE Early Investigator Award is a competitive, internationally recognized award that recognizes the accomplishments of faculty early in their career. Dr. Crawford spoke about Mindfulness in STEM at the Award’s Symposium at the Fall ACS Meeting in Denver, CO. 

Award Alert

Congrats Aditya for receiving the Elizabeth S. Lampp Trust and Estate Endowed Scholarship. Keep up the great research work, Aditya! 

New Group Member

Dr. Gitanjali Swain joins the Crawford Lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome, Gitanjali!

New Group Member

Alek Ramos-Davila joins the Crawford Lab as an MSE major with a research focus on triboelectric nanogenerators. Welcome, Alek!

New Group Member

David Giordano joins the Crawford Lab as a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student. Welcome, David!

New Group Member

Kareem Abdelrahman joins the Crawford Lab as an MSE Ph.D. student. Welcome, Kareem!

Award Alert

Nick received a highly competitive Polson Family Scholarship for his dedication to research and academics.

Award Alerts 

Nick received a UCF Office of Undergraduate Research Grant and the Al Dallago Gerontology Award to conduct research on sensors for human health monitoring.

New Group Member

Nicholas Rose joins the Crawford Lab as a Biomedical Sciences major with an Honors Thesis Project focusing on triboelectric nanogenerators. Welcome, Nick!

Bitter-Sweet Farewell

Undergraduate Meryl Wiratmo graduated and accepted a position in the MSE Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Congrats, Meryl!

Bitter-Sweet Farewell

Undergraduate Erin Watson graduates and accepts an engineering position at Wolfram in Raleigh, NC. Congrats, Erin!

Doing the Twist

We demonstrate high hyperpolarizability xanthene-bridged zwitterionic chromophores at low twist angles

New Group Member

Tamar Yishay joins the Crawford Lab as a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student

It’s Getting Hot in Here!

The Crawford Lab Receives $1.5M from DHS to develop health monitoring tool for firefighters