{"id":364,"date":"2016-08-29T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bme.ufl.edu\/labs\/hudalla\/?page_id=364"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:06:35","slug":"honors-and-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/hudalla\/honors-and-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Honors &amp; Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Congratulations to&#8230;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stephanie Herrera <\/strong>| <em>2nd Place,<\/em> BMES 2025 3MT Competition | October 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shaheen Farhadi<\/strong> | <em>Best Oral Presentation<\/em>, 8th Annual Pruitt Research Day | November 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dillon Seroski<\/strong> | <em>Best Oral\/Poster Presentation<\/em>, NanoFlorida Conference | November 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leilani Astrab<\/strong> | <em>Best Poster Presentation<\/em>, ABRCMS Conference | November 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stephanie Herrera<\/strong>&nbsp;|<em> Inductee<\/em>, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, Florida Alpha Chapter |November 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Natalia Fabela <\/strong>| <em>NSF GRFP<\/em> | April 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>B<\/strong><strong>ethsymarie Soto-Morales <\/strong><em>| NSF GRFP Honorable Mention<\/em> | April 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shaheen Farhadi<\/strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<em>Star Award<\/em>, Society for Biomaterials | February 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Margaret&nbsp;Fettis&nbsp;<\/b><\/span>| <em>1st Place<\/em>, 2018 Art of Research Photo Contest UF BME | January 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Margaret&nbsp;Fettis&nbsp;<\/b><\/span>| <em>Graduate Student Award of Excellence<\/em>, UF BME | August 2018&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Margaret&nbsp;Fettis&nbsp;<\/b><\/span>| <em>Biomaterials Education Challenge 2nd Place Award,<\/em> SFB | April 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Margaret&nbsp;Fettis&nbsp;<\/b><\/span>| <em>Emerging Scholar Dissertation Award<\/em>, Association for Academic Women | March 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Shaheen Farhadi<\/strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<em>Best Graduate Poster Presentation<\/em>, 7th Annual Biomaterials Day, UF Chapter of the Society for Biomaterials | February 2018<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Margaret&nbsp;Fettis&nbsp;<\/b><\/span>|&nbsp;<em>Best Student Oral Presentation<\/em><em>, <\/em>SMARTS | January 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Margaret Fettis<\/strong> | <em>President-Elect<\/em> of the National Student Chapter of the Society for Biomaterials | 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bethsymarie Soto-Morales<\/strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<em>Robert C. Pittman Fellowship<\/em>, NIMET | Fall 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Margaret Fettis<\/strong> | <em>Best Oral Presentation<\/em>, 2nd Annual Institute for Cell and Tissue Science and Engineering Symposium, UF | July 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Antonietta Restuccia<\/strong> | <em>Best Oral Presentation<\/em>, UF Smarts, January 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Antonietta Restuccia<\/strong>&nbsp;| <em>Best oral presentation<\/em>, 5th Annual J. Crayton Pruitt Research Day, UF BME | Fall 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dillon Seroski<\/strong>&nbsp;| <em>Best Graduate Honorable Mention Poster Presentation<\/em>, 5th Annual J. Crayton Pruitt Research Day, UF BME | Fall 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shaheen Farhadi<\/strong> | <em>Robert C. Pittman Fellowship<\/em>, ICTSE | Fall 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Margaret Fettis<\/strong> |&nbsp;<em>Hot Paper<\/em>, Journal of Materials Chemistry B | Spring 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew Molinaro<\/strong>&nbsp;| <em>University Scholars Program<\/em> | 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Bryant Kane<\/b><\/span> | <em>University Scholars Program<\/em> | 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anthony Sorrentino<\/strong> | <em>University Scholars Program<\/em> | 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Antonietta Restuccia<\/strong> |&nbsp;<em>Best Poster Award<\/em>, ICAM Biologically-enabled self-assembly workshop, FAMU | Spring 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Antonietta Restuccia<\/strong>&nbsp;| <em>Poster Award runner-up<\/em>, J. 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