To hear an axion, you have to be listening very, very carefully.

These hypothetical elementary particles may be responsible for some or all dark matter in the universe, so there is strong support in the physics community to find one, but it’s not easy because their energy inputs are so minuscule.

Florida A&M University and FAMU-FSU College of Engineering alumnus Asegun Henry—a contributor to two world records—recently received the Alan T. Waterman Award, which is the highest honor that the National Science Foundation can bestow on early-career engineers and scientists.

“It feels vindicating,” 41-year-old Henry, a Tallahassee native and Massachusetts Institute Technology professor, told the Democrat.

Toshiaki Kanai, a graduate research student working with Wei Guo, an associate professor in mechanical engineering, won the best poster award at the Florida State University Quantum and Science Symposium. Kanai received the award for his research on a theoretical study on electron-neon qubit quantum states. 

Griffin Bradford, a doctoral student in materials science at Florida State University, received the overall Tony DiBenedetto Student Employee of the Year (SEOTY) for 2023 from the FSU Career Center.

The spiral-shaped bacteria Helicobacter pylori are common and troublesome.

More than 13 percent of Americans have an H. pylori infection, although rates vary with age, race and socioeconomic status. The microorganism uses its corkscrew-like tail to power forward through viscous fluids such as stomach mucus. When it arrives at the epithelium of the stomach wall, it can cause everything from ulcers to cancer.

Florida A&M University (FAMU) and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering are part of the newly formed Centers of Excellence funded by the U.S.

Four materials science and engineering graduate students from Florida State University and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering were recently named winners of the 2023 James Brooks Symposium oral presentation competition. 

The April 21, 2023 competition was open to students in the interdisciplinary Materials Science and Engineering graduate program at the college. Each student talked about their current research. 

It climbs like a gecko and freestyles when it hits the water. A feisty little robot called the AquaClimber is the latest bio-inspired robot designed by the researchers at CISCOR, the Center for Intelligent Systems, Control and Robotics lab, where inspiration comes from the natural world around us. 

“At CISCOR, we want to understand the locomotion of animals and hope to use that understanding to help us design robots,” Max Austin, a mechanical engineering student at CISCOR said. 

Back in the ’90s, life was good for John Ensor Parker. He was a mechanical engineering graduate from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, with friends, a music studio, a Land Cruiser, windsurfing boards, and a job at a local engineering firm.