{"id":226,"date":"2022-01-01T16:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/urayama-cellular-biophysics-lab\/?page_id=226"},"modified":"2025-06-04T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:45:32","slug":"old-lab-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/urayama-cellular-biophysics-lab\/old-lab-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Lab News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2023-07-18: Mary McNeill<\/strong> successfully defended her master&#8217;s thesis. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023-05-13:<\/strong> Congratulations to graduating seniors! <strong>Blake McClain<\/strong>, <strong>Ken Nguyen<\/strong>, <strong>Tommy Finn<\/strong>, and <strong>Xavier Mleziva<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023-05-03: Blake McClain<\/strong> received a departmental <strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research<\/strong> award.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023-02-18: Xavier Mleziva<\/strong> presented a poster at the\u00a0<strong>67th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023-01-28: Mary McNeill, Blake McClain, and Nick Majer<\/strong> are co-authors on a talk presented at the <strong>2023\u00a0SPIE Photonics West\u00a0<\/strong>conference. Prof. Vishwanath (Miami U.) is a collaborator on this work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2022-04-20: Blake<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Nick<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tommy<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Ken<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Sumit&nbsp;<\/strong>presented at the&nbsp;<strong>28th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022-04-05: Blake McClain<\/strong>&nbsp;received the&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Summer Scholars&nbsp;<\/strong>award.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022-02-19: Nick Majer<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tommy Finn<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Taylor Phillips<\/strong>&nbsp;are co-authors on a poster presented at the&nbsp;<strong>66th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society<\/strong>. Prof. Vishwanath is a collaborator on this presentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2021-09-15: Tommy Finn<\/strong>&nbsp;gave an excellent department seminar talk on his summer research project. Good work!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021-08-19:<\/strong>&nbsp;Our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/molecules26165020\">paper<\/a>&nbsp;now appears in&nbsp;<em>Molecules<\/em>&nbsp;as a Feature Paper. Prof. Fumiyoshi Abe of Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan) is a collaborator on this work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021-07-21:&nbsp;<\/strong>Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Bibek Dhakal<\/strong>&nbsp;for passing his master&#8217;s thesis defense. He is off to Vanderbilt in a few weeks!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021-05-24:<\/strong>&nbsp;Our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/D1RA02648H\">paper<\/a>&nbsp;now appears in&nbsp;<em>RSC Advances<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021-05-05:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to the following department award winners:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bibek Dhakal<\/strong>&nbsp;for being awarded both the&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher<\/strong>&nbsp;award and the&nbsp;<strong>AAPT Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher<\/strong>&nbsp;award!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tommy Finn<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Taylor Phillips<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Nick Majer<\/strong>&nbsp;for being awarded <strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;awards!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021-04-21:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Bibek Dhakal<\/strong>, who accepted an offer of admissions to the doctoral program in physics at Vanderbilt University. He had multiple competitive offers. Great work!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021-04-21: Nick Majer<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tommy Finn<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Taylor Phillips<\/strong>&nbsp;presented at the&nbsp;<strong>27th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum<\/strong>&nbsp;held virtually this year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021-04-05: Tommy Finn<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Nick Majer<\/strong>&nbsp;received <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamioh.edu\/student-research\/research-opportunities\/uss\/index.html\">Undergraduate Summer Scholars<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;awards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021-03-06: Taylor Phillips<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tommy Finn<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Bibek Dhakal<\/strong>&nbsp;are co-authors on a talk presented at the 2021&nbsp;<strong>SPIE Photonics West&nbsp;<\/strong>conference. Prof. Vishwanath (Miami U.) is a collaborator on this work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021-02-22: Bibek Dhakal<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Martin Heidelman<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;are co-authors on a poster presented at the&nbsp;<strong>65th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society<\/strong>. Prof. Abe (Aoyama Gakuin University) is a collaborator on this work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2020-11-23:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Bibek Dhakal<\/strong>&nbsp;for successfully defending his master&#8217;s prospectus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020-11-06: Bibek&nbsp;Dhakal<\/strong>&nbsp;presented his thesis work at Miami University&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Graduate Research Forum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020-05-21: Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>&nbsp;successfully defended their department honors thesis. Great work!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020-05-13:<\/strong>&nbsp;It&#8217;s the department&#8217;s annual awards time! Because we could not meet in person this year, a daily reveal countdown was posted on the&nbsp;department web site.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;is the department&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Senior<\/strong> (department&#8217;s highest award)!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>&nbsp;has received the department&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Undergraduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;award. Wohoo!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tommy Finn<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Taylor Phillips<\/strong>&nbsp;have also received&nbsp;<strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;awards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020-05-12: Taylor Phillips<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tommy Finn<\/strong>&nbsp;have been awarded an&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Research Award<\/strong>&nbsp;grant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020-04-29: Max Kreider<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Taylor Phillips<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tommy Finn<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Karthik Sastry<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Nick Majer<\/strong>&nbsp;all presented at the&nbsp;<strong>26th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum<\/strong>, which was 100% online this year. An amazing organizing feat by&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/miamioh.edu\/student-research\/\">Office of Research for Undergraduates<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020-04-20:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations on accepting doctoral program offers &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;(Case Western Reserve University, applied math) and&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>&nbsp;(Yale University, biophysics)! Both had multiple offers from highly competitive programs. Great work and best wishes!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020-04-01: Karthik Sastry<\/strong>&nbsp;received an&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamioh.edu\/student-research\/research-opportunities\/uss\/index.html\">Undergraduate Summer Scholars<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;award. (Unfortunately, the program is cancelled due to the pandemic.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020-02-01: Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>&nbsp;attended the&nbsp;<strong>SPIE Photonics West<\/strong>&nbsp;conference in San Francisco. I have a talk on their work titled &#8220;Spectral phasor analysis of autofluorescence responses from cells embedded in turbid media containing collagen.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2019-07-30:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Martin Heidelman<\/strong>&nbsp;who successfully defended his master&#8217;s thesis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-05-23: Audrey Short (2018 Goldwater Scholar)<\/strong>&nbsp;is profiled on the&nbsp;<strong>Goldwater Foundation<\/strong>&nbsp;web site.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-05-16: Audrey Short<\/strong>&nbsp;has successfully defended her departmental honors project. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-05-09: Audrey Short<\/strong>&nbsp;received the&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Senior Award<\/strong>, the Department&#8217;s highest award for a graduating senior.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-05-09: Kevin Karney<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Max Kreider<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Audrey Short<\/strong>&nbsp;received&nbsp;<strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;awards at the Department&#8217;s annual awards seminar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-05-02: Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;was named a&nbsp;<strong>2020 CAS Dean&#8217;s Scholar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-04-24:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Audrey Short<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Kevin Karney<\/strong>&nbsp;presented posters at the&nbsp;<strong>25th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-04-15: Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;received an&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Summer Scholars<\/strong>&nbsp;award;&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>&nbsp;will participate in the REU program at Yale University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-04-15:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations on doctoral program admissions:&nbsp;<strong>Audrey Short<\/strong>&nbsp;(UC Berkeley, biophysics),&nbsp;<strong>Martin Heidelman<\/strong>&nbsp;(Notre Dame, physics).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-03-29: Martin Heidelman<\/strong>&nbsp;presented a poster at the&nbsp;<strong>Spring 2019 OSAPS<\/strong>&nbsp;meeting at the&nbsp;<strong>College of Wooster<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;are co-authors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-03-06: Audrey Short<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Martin Heidelman<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Max Kreider<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Darren Wong<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Nazar Al Aayedi<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Zhifan Cai<\/strong>&nbsp;are co-authors on a poster presented at the&nbsp;<strong>63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019-02-26: Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>&nbsp;received a&nbsp;<strong>2019-2020 Cancer Research Award<\/strong>&nbsp;grant for their project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2018-12-10: Martin Heidelman<\/strong>&nbsp;successfully presented his master&#8217;s prospectus. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018-12-05: Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;received an&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Research Award<\/strong>&nbsp;grant for their project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018-11-30:<\/strong>&nbsp;Our paper was accepted to&nbsp;<em><strong>RSC Advances<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to lab alumni&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Darren Wong<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Symeon Stefan<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>James O&#8217;Connor<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Nazar Al Aayedi<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Madhu Gaire<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Diana Kinn<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018-05-14:<\/strong>&nbsp;Welcome to&nbsp;<strong>Shannon Bunch<\/strong>. She is spending the summer with us through the&nbsp;<strong>LSAMP program<\/strong>&nbsp;at Sinclair CC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018-05-14: Carolina Vissers<\/strong>&nbsp;received an&nbsp;<strong>Arfken Summer Scholars<\/strong>&nbsp;award, and&nbsp;<strong>Zhifan Cai<\/strong>&nbsp;received an&nbsp;<strong>Edwards Summer Scholars<\/strong>&nbsp;award. Thank you to&nbsp;<strong>Prof. Kelly<\/strong>&nbsp;for his generous support.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018-05-09:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Darren Wong<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Carolina Vissers<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Zhifan Cai<\/strong>&nbsp;received&nbsp;<strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;awards at the Department&#8217;s annual awards seminar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018-04-25:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Darren Wong<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Carolina Vissers<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Zhifan Cai<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Andy Rodriguez<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Max Kreider<\/strong>&nbsp;presented posters at the&nbsp;<strong>24th Annual Undergraduate Research Forum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018-02-18: Darren Wong<\/strong>&nbsp;presented a poster at the&nbsp;<strong>62nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018-01-05:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Nazar Al-Aayedi<\/strong>, who successfully defended his master&#8217;s thesis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2017-06-07:<\/strong>&nbsp;Our paper has been accepted at&nbsp;<em><strong>Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Laxmi Risal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017-05-24:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Darren Wong&nbsp;<\/strong>presented a poster at the annual CMSB symposium, on campus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017-05-13: Congratulations to the Class of 2017!<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017-05-03:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>, a recipient of the&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Undergraduate Student Researcher Award<\/strong>&nbsp;at the Department&#8217;s annual awards seminar.&nbsp;<strong>Symeon Stefan<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Martin Heidelman<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Darren Wong<\/strong>&nbsp;also received&nbsp;<strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;awards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017-04-25: Darren Wong<\/strong>&nbsp;has been named a&nbsp;<strong>2018 College of Arts and Science Dean&#8217;s Scholar<\/strong>&nbsp;and is a&nbsp;<strong>2017 Undergraduate Summer Scholar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017-04-25: Martin Heidelman<\/strong>&nbsp;will be attending Miami University for his master&#8217;s degree in physics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017-01-31: Andrew Ray<\/strong>&nbsp;has been accepted to his top-choice masters in public health program. Wohoo!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017-01-20: Dylan Palo<\/strong>&nbsp;has been accepted to his two top-choice physics doctoral programs. Congratulations!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2016-10-15:&nbsp;<\/strong>Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>, who has been accepted to the&nbsp;<strong>2017 Optics and Photonics Winter School and Workshop<\/strong>&nbsp;at the University of Arizona.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-10-10:&nbsp;<\/strong>Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Symeon Stefan<\/strong>. He was accepted to his top-choice dental program, and plans a career in endodontics or oral surgery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-09-01: Dylan Palo<\/strong>&nbsp;is featured on a&nbsp;<strong>College of Arts and Science Student Spotlight<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-07-01:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Millicent Gikunda<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Laxmi Risal<\/strong>&nbsp;have successfully defended their master&#8217;s thesis.&nbsp;<strong>Madhu Gaire<\/strong>&nbsp;will defend in a few weeks. All are off to doctoral programs in physics. Best wishes!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-05-14:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Congratulations to the Class of 2016!<\/strong>&nbsp;And&nbsp;<strong>thank you<\/strong>&nbsp;for the Class&#8217;s departmental teaching award. Sorry for all the tough exams, but you studied hard and did well. Best wishes and I look forward to hearing of your experiences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-05-12:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Symeon Stefan<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded an&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Research Award<\/strong>!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-05-04:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Diana Kinn<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>James O&#8217;Connor<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Symeon Stefan<\/strong>&nbsp;have been awarded departmental&nbsp;<strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;awards!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-04-26:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>&nbsp;(physics) and&nbsp;<strong>Symeon Stefan<\/strong>&nbsp;(biology) for being named&nbsp;<strong>2017 College of Arts and Science Dean&#8217;s Scholars<\/strong>!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-03-24:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Millicent Gikunda<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Madhu Gaire<\/strong>! They&#8217;ve been accepted to doctoral programs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-03-02:<\/strong>&nbsp;Just returned from the&nbsp;<strong>60th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>&nbsp;did great work presenting his poster. I served on a panel called &#8220;Research Programs at PUIs: Founding, Establishing, and Maintaining a Research Laboratory.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-02-15:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Diana Kinn<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Laxmi Risal<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>James O&#8217;Connor<\/strong>! They&#8217;ve been accepted to medical school or doctoral programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2015-12-09: Dylan Palo<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded an&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Research Award<\/strong>!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015-10-30:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Millicent Gikunda<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Laxmi Risal<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Madhu Gaire<\/strong>&nbsp;presented their work at Miami&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>2015 Graduate Research Forum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015-10-17:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Millicent Gikunda<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Laxmi Risal<\/strong>&nbsp;presented posters at the&nbsp;<strong>Fall 2015 OSAPS meeting<\/strong>&nbsp;at Cleveland State University.&nbsp; Both have been awarded&nbsp;<strong>student travel grants<\/strong>&nbsp;by OSAPS to attend the meeting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015-05-16:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to graduating senior&nbsp;<strong>Arthur Oliva<\/strong>, who is now off to medical school!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015-04-28:<\/strong>&nbsp;Our paper has been accepted for publication at&nbsp;<strong><em>Analytical Chemistry<\/em><\/strong>. Congrats to graduate authors&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Zac Long<\/strong>, and undergraduate authors&nbsp;<strong>Lana Amer<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Arthur Oliva<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Folz<\/strong>!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015-04-15:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Arthur Oliva<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Lana Amer<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>&nbsp;presented their posters at the&nbsp;<strong>21st Annual Undergraduate Research Forum<\/strong>&nbsp;(Art is pictured in the link!).&nbsp;<strong>Symeon Stefan<\/strong>&nbsp;was a co-presenter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015-03-20:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Symeon Stefan<\/strong>&nbsp;have been accepted into&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Summer Scholars program<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Lana Amer<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>James O&#8217;Connor<\/strong>&nbsp;have been accepted into summer research programs as well. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015-02-10:<\/strong>&nbsp;We presented a platform talk&nbsp;<strong>59th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting<\/strong>. Abstract co-authors were&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Zac Long<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Arthur Oliva<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Folz<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Lana Amer<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2014-12-10:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Arthur Oliva<\/strong>&nbsp;is featured on an &#8220;I am Miami&#8221; profile.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-11-17:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Zac Long<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Art Oliva<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Folz<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Lana Amer<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Dylan Palo<\/strong>. Their&nbsp;<strong>Biophysical Society<\/strong>&nbsp;abstract will be presented in a platform session at the 58th Annual Meeting.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-10-27:<\/strong>&nbsp;Our paper &#8220;<em>A micro-perfusion system for use during real-time physiological studies under high pressure<\/em>&#8221; appears in the&nbsp;<em><strong>Review of Scientific Instruments<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; Congratulations to graduate students&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Zac Long<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Alison Huff<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Ryan Maloney<\/strong>, and undergraduate&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-09-12:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Summer Scholars<\/strong>&nbsp;student&nbsp;<strong>Arthur Oliva<\/strong>&nbsp;is featured on a Miami University&nbsp;<em>Reports<\/em>&nbsp;special issue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-08-01:<\/strong>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Physics Department<\/strong>&nbsp;is now located in&nbsp;<strong>Kreger Hall<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-07-11:&nbsp;<\/strong>Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>, who successfully defended his master&#8217;s thesis today. He is off to the University of Michigan&#8217;s biophysics program for his PhD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-05-07:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to students recognized at the Department&#8217;s annual awards seminar.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Folz<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Alex Brest<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Jeffrey Maltas<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-14-16:&nbsp;Lana Amer<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Folz<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Ariel Mendoza<\/strong>&nbsp;(pictured above) present at the&nbsp;<strong>2014 Undergraduate Research Forum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-04-10:<\/strong>&nbsp;Congratulations to students who have been accepted to summer internship or research programs.&nbsp;<strong>Morgan McGrath<\/strong>&nbsp;is accepted to the Chester Summer Scholars Program at MetroHealth in Cleveland,&nbsp;<strong>Art Oliva<\/strong>&nbsp;will be a Miami University Undergraduate Summer Scholar, and&nbsp;<strong>Alex Brest<\/strong>&nbsp;will be at Case Western Reserve University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-02-17:<\/strong>&nbsp;Our&nbsp;paper&nbsp;has been accepted for publication at the&nbsp;<strong><em>Journal of Biophotonics<\/em><\/strong>. Congratulations to graduate student co-authors&nbsp;<strong>Zac Long<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jun Cheng<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Erik Alquist<\/strong>, and undergraduate co-authors&nbsp;<strong>Mike Zatt<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Alex Brest<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-02-16:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>&nbsp;presented his poster at the&nbsp;<strong>58th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting<\/strong>, in San Francisco. Lab graduates&nbsp;<strong>Zac Long<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Alison Huff<\/strong>&nbsp;were co-authors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014-02-05:&nbsp;<\/strong>Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Folz<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>&nbsp;who are receiving offers from physics and\/or biophysics PhD programs!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2013<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2013-12-20:<\/strong>&nbsp;Wohoo! This is not related to her research in the lab, but congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Morgan McGrath<\/strong>, who won a bronze medal as part of the women&#8217;s ice hockey team at the 2013 World University Games, in Trentino, Italy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013-10-04:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Folz<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Maltas<\/strong>&nbsp;presented posters at the Fall OSAPS meeting at the University of Cincinnati.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013-05-10:<\/strong>&nbsp;Graduating master&#8217;s students have received offers from PhD programs.&nbsp; Congratulations&nbsp;<strong>Zac Long<\/strong>&nbsp;(entering a doctoral program in physics) and&nbsp;<strong>Zach Callahan<\/strong>&nbsp;(entering a doctoral program in medical physics).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013-05-03: Jeff Folz&nbsp;<\/strong>(biological physics major) have been selected as&nbsp;<strong>2014 Dean&#8217;s Scholars<\/strong>&nbsp;in the College of Arts and Science for work in our lab. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013-03-22: Mike Zatt&nbsp;<\/strong>spent his spring break in Columbus and Washington as part of a University&#8217;s posters-on-the-hill session, highlighting the role of research participation in undergraduate education.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013-03-01:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Folz&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Alex Brest<\/strong>&nbsp;have been selected as&nbsp;<strong>2013Undergraduate Summer Scholars<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013-03-01:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Zach Callahan<\/strong>&nbsp;successfully defended his master&#8217;s prospectus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013-02-10:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Mike Zatt<\/strong>&nbsp;has received multiple medical school offers! Wohoo!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2012<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2012-11-28:&nbsp;<\/strong>The lab is featured in the magazine&nbsp;<em>International Innovations<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012-09-19: Zac Long&nbsp;<\/strong>has successfully presented his master&#8217;s prospectus.&nbsp; Good work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012-08-01: Alison Huff<\/strong>&nbsp;has successfully defended her master&#8217;s thesis.&nbsp; Good work and best wishes.&nbsp; She is continuing on to doctoral work in physics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012-05-05:<\/strong>&nbsp;Best wishes to graduating seniors&nbsp;<strong>David Knowles&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Alex Gambill<\/strong>. David is off to medical school, and Alex is planning a career as a physician assistant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012-05-03: Mike Zatt<\/strong>&nbsp;(microbiology major) and&nbsp;<strong>Kyle Kissick<\/strong>&nbsp;(biological physics major) have been selected as&nbsp;<strong>2013 Dean&#8217;s Scholars<\/strong>&nbsp;in the College of Arts and Science for work in our lab. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012-04-15:&nbsp;<\/strong>Senior&nbsp;<strong>Eric Todd<\/strong>&nbsp;presents at the Undergraduate Research Forum.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012-02-29:<\/strong>&nbsp;Junior&nbsp;<strong>Mike Zatt<\/strong>&nbsp;presented his research poster at the&nbsp;<strong>56th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society<\/strong>&nbsp;in San Diego, CA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012-02-08:<\/strong>&nbsp;Department alumna and lab graduate&nbsp;<strong>Katie Binzel<\/strong>&nbsp;will be giving the department seminar &#8220;How Does the Acquisition Time Impact PET Quantification?&#8221; on February 22, based on her medical physics work at OSU.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012-01-20: Mike Zatt&nbsp;<\/strong>is selected into the&nbsp;<strong>2012&nbsp;Undergraduate Summer Scholars&nbsp;<\/strong>program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2011<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2011-11-09: Alison Huff&nbsp;<\/strong>has successfully presented her master&#8217;s prospectus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011-09-26: Jordan Ryan&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;paper has been accepted for publication in&nbsp;<em>Analytical Methods<\/em>. Congrats, Jordan!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011-05-20:&nbsp;<\/strong>Congratulations to graduating seniors &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Erik Rotterman<\/strong>.&nbsp; Both are off to medical school.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011-04-29: Erik Rotterman&nbsp;<\/strong>successfully defended his&nbsp;<strong>departmental honors thesis<\/strong>.&nbsp;Erik is also receiving&nbsp;<strong>University Honors with Distinction<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011-04-27:&nbsp;<\/strong>Congratulations to lab members recognized at the Department&#8217;s annual awards seminar.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;was named the Department&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Researcher<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Erik Rotterman<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Eric Todd<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Mike Zatt<\/strong>&nbsp;received&nbsp;<strong>Commendations in Undergraduate Research.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011-04-13: Erik Rotterman<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Mike Zatt<\/strong>&nbsp;present their work at the&nbsp;<strong>2011 Undergraduate Research Forum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011-04-12: Jun Cheng<\/strong>&nbsp;is inducted into&nbsp;<strong>Sigma Pi Sigma<\/strong>, the physics honors society.&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;was inducted in 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011-02-11: David Knowles<\/strong>&nbsp;is selected into the 2011&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Summer Scholars<\/strong>&nbsp;program.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011-01-19: Jordan Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;will be presenting at the national American Physical Society March Meeting in Dallas, TX.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011-01-19: Jun Cheng<\/strong>&nbsp;has successfully presented his master&#8217;s prospectus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2010<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2010-11-15: Jordan Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;has been accepted to the&nbsp;<strong>Indiana University School of Medicine<\/strong>. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2010-09-23:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>National Science Foundation&nbsp;<\/strong>grant awared for biological physics research involving students.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-07-27: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Erik Alquist<\/strong>&nbsp;for successfully defending his thesis!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-05-07: Best wishes to Class of 2010 graduates.&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Regueyra<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Erik Zachwieja<\/strong>&nbsp;will both be attending medical school in the fall!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-05-05: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Regueyra<\/strong>&nbsp;for successfully defending her&nbsp;<strong>departmental honors thesis.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-04-28: Congratulations to lab members recognized at the Department&#8217;s annual awards seminar.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lauren Regueyra<\/strong>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<strong>Sigma Pi Sigma Outstanding Senior<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Regueyra<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Erik Zachwieja<\/strong>&nbsp;who received&nbsp;<strong>Commendations in Undergraduate Research<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Erik Alquist<\/strong>&nbsp;who received the&nbsp;<strong>AAPT Outstanding Teaching Award<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-04-20:&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Ryan&nbsp;<\/strong>has been selected as a&nbsp;<strong>2011 CAS Dean&#8217;s Scholar<\/strong>, providing funds for him to present results of his research at a professional conference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-03-05:&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;is quoted in a recent&nbsp;newspaper article&nbsp;about the Physics Department.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-03-05: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Sara Savage<\/strong>.&nbsp; Their paper now appears in the&nbsp;Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-02-20:&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Regueyra<\/strong>&nbsp;and I are off to the&nbsp;<strong>2010 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Erik Alquist<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Junaid Farooqi<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>&nbsp;are also authors on the poster she is presenting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-02-10:&nbsp;<strong>Erik Rotterman<\/strong>&nbsp;is selected into the 2010&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Summer Scholars<\/strong>&nbsp;program.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-01-25:&nbsp;<strong>Michael Zatt<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Kartik Warikoo<\/strong>&nbsp;are spring 2010&nbsp;<strong>FYRE (First Year Research Experience)<\/strong>&nbsp;participants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010-01-20:&nbsp;<strong>Erik Zachwieja<\/strong>&nbsp;presents a talk on his fall 2009 capstone project at the Physics Deparment seminar .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2009<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2009-11-20:&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Regueyra<\/strong>&nbsp;has received a Biophysical Society Minority Biophysicist Travel Grant to attend the 2010 Annual Meeting. Selection of awardees is based on scientific merit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-10-09:&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Erik Alquist<\/strong>&nbsp;each presented a poster at the Fall 2009 OSAPS meeting. Their work seemed well received; someone was always talking with them when I passed by!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-09-30:&nbsp;<strong>Jorday Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded an OSAPS Travel Grant award.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-09-30:&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Regueyra<\/strong>&nbsp;presented results of their research projects at the Department&#8217;s weekly seminar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-09-22:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Sara Savage&#8217;s&nbsp;<\/strong>paper has been accepted for publication in the&nbsp;<em>Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: High-Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology &#8211; Fifth International Conference<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-07-23:&nbsp;<strong>Junaid Farooqi<\/strong>&nbsp;has successfully defended his thesis.&nbsp; He is soon off to UT-San Antonio for his doctorate in physics. Best wishes!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-05-09: Best wishes to Class of 2009 graduates&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Sara Savage<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Brian Casto<\/strong>. Enjoy your summers and good luck in graduate school!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-05-01: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>&nbsp;for successfully defending his&nbsp;<strong>departmental honors thesis.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-04-29: Congratulations to people earning awards at the Department&#8217;s annual awards seminar:&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>&nbsp;for the Department&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Researcher&nbsp;<\/strong>award; to Sara Savage for the Department&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research&nbsp;<\/strong>award; to&nbsp;<strong>Erik Zachwieja<\/strong>&nbsp;for a&nbsp;<strong>Culler award<\/strong>; and to&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Regueyra<\/strong>&nbsp;for being inducted into&nbsp;<strong>Sigma Pi Sigma<\/strong>, the national physics honors society. Also congratulations graduating seniors and graduate students.&nbsp; Josh, Sara, Brian, and Junaid have been accepted to graduate programs in biophysics, biology, medical physics, and physics respectively.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-04-20:&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Regueyra&nbsp;<\/strong>has been selected as a&nbsp;<strong>2010 CAS Dean&#8217;s Scholar<\/strong>, providing funds for Lauren to present results of her research at a professional conference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-04-16:&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Sara Savage<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Junaid Farooqi<\/strong>&nbsp;have been inducted into&nbsp;<strong>Sigma Xi<\/strong>.&nbsp; Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-02-06: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Regueyra&nbsp;<\/strong>who have been selected 2009&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Summer Scholars<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009-01-05: Research performed in the laboratory is featured in a&nbsp;<strong>University&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.muohio.edu\/news\/article\/view\/6653\">news release<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2008<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2008-12-17: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Brian Casto<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>, who have successfully defended their senior capstone projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-12-12:&nbsp;<strong>Sara Savage<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded a&nbsp;<strong>Sigma Xi&nbsp;Grants-in-Aid of Research<\/strong>&nbsp;grant, a nationally competitive program for graduate and undergraduate students with a 20% funding rate!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-11-28: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Hector DePedro<\/strong>. His paper now appears in&nbsp;<em>Analytical Biochemistry<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ab.2008.10.007\">.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-10-10: Senior physics major&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>&nbsp;presented his poster &#8220;Intermolecular interactions of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) in solution&#8221; at the Fall 2008 meeting of the Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical Society.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Junaid Farooqi<\/strong>&nbsp;was a co-author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-10-08: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Hector DePedro<\/strong>. His paper has been accepted for publication in&nbsp;<em>Analytical Biochemistry<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-09-23:&nbsp;<strong>Scott Keller<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jon Dudley<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Katie Binzel,<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Hector DePedro<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&#8216;s paper now appears in&nbsp;<em>Analytical Chemistry<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-08-22:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Sara Savage<\/strong>&#8216;s abstract has been accepted for a talk at the&nbsp;<strong>Fifth International High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology Conference<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-08-18: Work by&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Haver<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Erica Raber<\/strong>&nbsp;is featured in the &#8220;Technology Solutions&#8221; section of the August 2008&nbsp;<em>Biophotonics International<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-08-14: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Scott Keller<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jon Dudley<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Katie Binzel,<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Hector De Pedro<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>. Their paper has been accepted for publication in&nbsp;<em>Analytical Chemistry<\/em>, one of the top journals in the analytical chemistry field!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-08-13: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Daniel Horne<\/strong>, who has successfully defended his senior capstone project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-07-28:&nbsp;<strong>Hector Michael DePedro<\/strong>&nbsp;has successfully defended his thesis.&nbsp; He is now off to UT Dallas for his doctorate. Best wishes!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-07-01: A research proposal to&nbsp;<strong>Research Corporation<\/strong>&nbsp;is being funded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-05-31: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Haver<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Erica Raber<\/strong>. Their paper is now in print in the&nbsp;<strong>Journal of Microscopy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-05-05:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Michael Eldridge&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;paper has been chosen for inclusion in the April 15, 2008, edition of the&nbsp;<em>Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-04-30: The lab made a great showing at this year&#8217;s Physics Department awards seminar.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;was awarded the&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Senior<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Undergraduate Research&nbsp;<\/strong>awards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hector Michael DePedro<\/strong>&nbsp;was awarded the&nbsp;<strong>Outstanding Graduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;award.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Scott Keller<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Michael Maffett<\/strong>&nbsp;all received department&nbsp;<strong>Commendation in Undergraduate Research<\/strong>&nbsp;awards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-04-25:&nbsp;<strong>Michael Maffett<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;have successfully defended their University and Department honors theses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-04-17:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Hector Michael de Pedro<\/strong>&nbsp;have been inducted into&nbsp;<strong>Sigma Xi<\/strong>. Keep up the good research!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-04-11: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Michael Eldridge<\/strong>. Their paper appears in print in the&nbsp;<strong>Review of Scientific Instruments<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-03-03: I hosted&nbsp;<strong>Gregory Benford<\/strong>, this year&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>George C. Benson Memorial Lecturer<\/strong>. Gregory Benford, an eminent astrophysicist and science fiction writer, was my undergraduate research mentor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-03-03:&nbsp;<strong>Michael Maffett<\/strong>&nbsp;will be attending a medical-physics masters program after graduation.&nbsp;<strong>Scott Keller<\/strong>&nbsp;will be attending&nbsp; a graduate program in health administration. Both programs were top choices for Michael and Scott. Congratulations!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-02-13:&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky&nbsp;<\/strong>have been selected to be a 2008&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Summer Scholar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008-02-04:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;presented his poster &#8220;Fluorescence-based calcium-ion sensing at high hydrostatic pressures&#8221; at the 2008 Biophysical Society meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2007<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2007-12-13:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded a&nbsp;<strong>Sigma Xi&nbsp;Grants-in-Aid of Research<\/strong>&nbsp;grant, a nationally competitive program with a 20% funding rate!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-12-05: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Haver<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Erica Raber<\/strong>, two recent masters graduates. Their paper has been accepted for publication in the&nbsp;<strong><em>Journal of Microscopy<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-11-15:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;abstract has been accepted to the&nbsp;<strong>2008 Biophysical Society annual meeting<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-11-08: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>, who has been awarded a&nbsp;<strong>Student Travel Award<\/strong>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<strong>2008 Biophysical Society annual meeting<\/strong>&nbsp;in Long Beach, CA. This is a national award, in competition with undergraduate and graduate students. Selection of awardees is based on scientific merit, with priority given to those presenting papers at the meeting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-10-19: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Haver<\/strong>&nbsp;(poster),&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;(talk), and&nbsp;<strong>Scott Keller<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Josh Jasensky<\/strong>&nbsp;(poster, co-presenters), who were presenting authors at the&nbsp;<strong>Fall 2007 meeting of the Ohio-Region Section of the APS<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Erica Raber<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Hector Michael de Pedro<\/strong>&nbsp;were also co-author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-08-16: Congratulations to&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Haver<\/strong>, who successfully defended his masters thesis. He&#8217;s off to&nbsp;<strong>OSU<\/strong>&#8216;s doctoral program in biophysics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-05-29:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded the&nbsp;<strong>Provost&#8217;s Student Academic Achievement Award<\/strong>, and is one of approximately 10 students to be honored at the fall convocation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-05-21:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded a prestigious 2007-2008&nbsp;<strong>Astronaut Scholarship<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-04-25: Congratulations to lab members who won awards at the Department&#8217;s award ceremony.&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Haver<\/strong>&nbsp;(AAPT Outstanding Teaching Award),&nbsp;<strong>Mike Salerno<\/strong>&nbsp;(Outstanding Researcher Award),&nbsp;<strong>Katie Binzel<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Jon Dudley<\/strong>&nbsp;(Research Commendation Award).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-04-18:&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Haver<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded a&nbsp;<strong>Sigma Xi<\/strong>&nbsp;Grants-in-Aid of Research&nbsp;grant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-04-12:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;has been selected as the 2007-2008&nbsp;<strong>Dean&#8217;s Scholar<\/strong>&nbsp;for physics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-04-05:&nbsp;<strong>Katie Binzel<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jon Dudley<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Haver<\/strong>&nbsp;have been inducted into&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmaxi.org\">Sigma Xi<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-04-02:&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded the nationally prestigious&nbsp;Goldwater Scholarship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-03-15:&nbsp;<strong>Scott Keller<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Eric Frey<\/strong>&nbsp;have been selected to be 2007&nbsp;<strong>Undergraduate Summer Scholars<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007-03-15:&nbsp;<strong>Michael Salerno&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;first-authored paper appears in&nbsp;print. 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