College Alumnus, Who's Already in the Guinness World Records Book, Earns High Engineering Honor

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.

Student on Engineering Research Team Wins Best Poster Award at FSU Quantum Science and Engineering Symposium

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. 

Using 3D models to investigate bacteria movement

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.