NEWS
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February 2011 |
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Congratulations to Eric Huey on his GEM PhD Fellowship award. Eric's fellowship will be sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Lab (BNL).
Congratulations to Hayde Silva for her first place poster award at the 18th Annual Florida-Georgia LSAMP Research Expo, from February 3-6, in Jacksonville, FL.
Congratulations to Al-Aakhir Rogers on his invitation to give a lecture at 13th International Meeting on Optical Engineering and Science (OASIS 2011) in Tel-Aviv, Israel, from March 9-10, 2011. Al-Aakhir will present on "Evanescent Wave Coupling using Subwavelength Gratings for Optical MEMS Accelerometer" |
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December 2010 |
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Congratulations to Dr. Puneet Khanna on his new position as a MTS Process Engineer with GLOBALFOUNDRIES (http://www.globalfoundries.com/).
Congratulations to Howard Bailey on his graduation with the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
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October 2010 |
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Congratulations to Sheila Jean for her first place poster award (Undergraduate) in the Engineering category at the HENAAC – Great Minds in STEM Conference, from October 7-9, in Orlando, FL.
Congratulations to Al-Aakhir Rogers for his second place poster award (Graduate) in the Engineering category at the HENAAC – Great Minds in STEM Conference, from October 7-9, in Orlando, FL. |
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September 2010 |
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Congratulations to the group on four conference papers presented at Eurosensors 2010 (XXIV) from September 5-8, 2010 in Linz, Austria.
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August 2010 |
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Welcome to Abhishek Dey (Electrical Engineering) and Abhay Vasudev (Biomedical Engineering) who joined the group as new Ph.D. students beginning Fall 2010.
Congratulations to Justin Boone on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Supplement (GRS) Fellowship award.
Congratulations to Dorielle Price on her publication: Mansoor Nasir, Dorielle T. Price, Lisa C. Shriver-Lake and Frances Ligler. Effect of Diffusion on Impedance Measurements in a Hydrodynamic Flow Focusing Sensor, Lab Chip, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c005257d. Online publication: August 20, 2010.
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June 2010 |
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Congratulations to Dr Sunil Arya for his research being featured in Highlights of Chemical Biology (www.rsc.org/highlightschembiol). He was recognized for his publication: Sunil K. Arya, Ganna Chornokur, Manju Venugopal, and Shekhar Bhansali. Antibody functionalized interdigitated m-electrode (IDmE) based impedimetric cortisol biosensor. Analyst, 2010, 135, 1941 - 1946, DOI: 10.1039/c0an00242a.
Congratulations to Dorielle Price and her husband Tony Price on the birth of their son, Tony Jr.
Congratulations to Dr. Subramanian Krishnan and his wife Lavanya on the birth of their daughter .
Congratulations to Michael Celestin on receiving an NSF sponsored Technical Internship Award. Michael completed a summer internship under Dr. Steve Wix and Frederick McCormick at the Sandia National Laboratory National Institute for Nano-Engineering (NINE) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Congratulations to Frank Alexander, Jr. on receiving a 2010 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award.
Welcome to Arelys Colon and Marica Balaguera who joined the research group as summer interns. Arelys, a junior in Electrical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus, is participating in the NSF REU in Sustainable Energy Alternatives and Advanced Materials (SEAM). Marcia is a Ph.D. student supervised by Dr. Samuel Hernandez-Rivera in the Department of Chemistry at UPRM and is here for a Ph.D. externship. |
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April 2010 |
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Congratulation to Dr. Puneet Khanna on his publication: Puneet Khanna, Kevin Luongo, Joel A. Strom, and Shekhar Bhansali, “Sharpening of hollow silicon microneedles to reduce skin penetration force”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Volume 20 (045011), 2010.
Congratulations to lab alumni Joseph Register (B.S.E.E., 2008) on receiving a 2010 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award. Joe will rejoin the group as a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering for Fall 2010.
Congratulations to Al-Aakhir Rogers for receiving Honorable Mention recognition from the 2010 Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship Competition.
Congratulations to lab alumni Dr. Shyam Aravamudhan (Ph.D., E.E., 2007) on his appointment as Assistant Professor in the Joint School of Nanscience and Nanoengineering at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dr. Aravamudhan is a postdoctoral research fellow within the Laboratory for Neuroengineering (NeuroLab) at Georgia Tech University
Congratulations to Frank Alexander, Jr. and Justin Boone on receiving NSF IREE Summer Fellowships in China. Frank completed an internship at Time-Medical, Inc. in Shanghai and Justin at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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March 2010 |
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Congratulations to lab alumni Dr. Praveen Sekhar (Ph.D., E.E., 2008) on his poster receiving the third place award during the 8th Annual Meeting of the National Postdoctoral Association from March 12-14, in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Sekhar is a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Congratulations to Dr. Puneet Khanna on his publication: Puneet Khanna, Kevin Luongo, Joel A. Strom, and Shekhar Bhansali, “Axial and Shear Fracture Strength Evaluation of Silicon Microneedles”, Microsystem Technologies, (2010), 16:973-978, DOI 10.1007/s00542-010-1070-4. Online publication: March 24, 2010.
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MEMBER GRADUATIONS
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Three Ph.D. students, namely, Shyam Aravamudhan, Abdur Rehman and Rahul Agarwal, graduated in 2007. |
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Mr. Rogers receives EASPO fellowship award |
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Natasha Cover recieved the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship in Sept 2008. Established in 1984, the Florida Education Fund's McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program has increased the number of African Americans who have been awarded the Ph.D. in historically underrepresented, crucial disciplines and fields of study where African Americans have not historically enrolled and completed degree programs.
The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program is designed to address the under-representation of African American and Hispanic faculty at colleges and universities in the state of Florida by increasing the pool of citizens qualified with Ph.D. degrees to teach at the college and university levels. As a by-product, it is expected that employment opportunities in industry will also be expanded.
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Al-Aakhir Rogers, a
member of the Bio-MEMS and Microsystems research laboratory group, was
one of only 150 chosen from a nationwide pool of applicants to receive
a prestigious East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EASPI) fellowship
award. Al-Aakhir will be working at the Instrument Technology Research
Center (ITRC), National Applied Research Laboratories in Hsinchu, 300,
Taiwan, R.O.C. His project will involve near field scanning optical
microscopy (NSOM) measurements of nanostructures and nanolithography
using a perfect lens.
From Left to right: 1) Michelle Jenkins,
NSF Program Specialist 2) Richard H. Nader, Ph.D. , Program Manager,
East Asia and Pacific Region, Office of International Science and
Engineering, National Science Foundation 3) Al-Aakhir Rogers 4) Yaw-Nan
Chen, Director, TECRO S&T Division |
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The primary goals of
EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and
engineering in the context of a research laboratory, and to initiate
personal relationships that will better enable them to collaborate with
foreign counterparts in the future. The institutes last approximately
eight weeks from June to August. Each year, the EAPSI program sends a
select group of U.S. science and engineering graduate students to
Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Taiwan, where they work
side by side with professors and peers from leading universities and
laboratories on science and engineering challenges in those locations.
These cross-cultural experiences exposes EAPSI students to the
diversity of ideas that drives innovation, and it prepares them for
leadership roles in the global research enterprise. EAPSI participants
receive a $4,000 stipend along with airline travel and lodging.
Al-Aakhir is a NSF Bridge to the Doctorate and Sloan Minority PhD
fellow in the College of Engineering. In addition to his PhD work
focusing on the development of optical-based MEMS based sensors, he has
been involved in several outreach activities, including the 2006 USF
Micro/Nano Robotics K-12 Summer Camp, Florida-Georgia LSAMP Research
& Career Expo, and the 25th Annual National Conference of the
United States Hispanic Leadership Institute.
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