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Last Updated: May 17, 2010.

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Lab News

Summer 2010

• 2010-07-27: Congratulations to Erik Alquist for successfully defending his thesis!
  

Spring 2010

• 2010-05-07: Best wishes to Class of 2010 graduates. Lauren Regueyra and Erik Zachwieja will both be attending medical school in the fall!
  
• 2010-05-05: Congratulations to Lauren Regueyra for successfully defending her departmental honors thesis.
• 2010-04-28: Congratulations to lab members recognized at the Department's annual awards seminar.
• Lauren Regueyra for Sigma Pi Sigma Outstanding Senior.
• Jordan Ryan, Lauren Regueyra, and Erik Zachwieja who received Commendations in Undergraduate Research.
• Erik Alquist who received the AAPT Outstanding Teaching Award.
  
• 2010-04-20: Jordan Ryan has been selected as a 2011 CAS Dean's Scholar, providing funds for him to present results of his research at a professional conference.
• 2010-03-05: Jordan Ryan is quoted in a recent newspaper article about the Physics Department.
  
• 2010-03-05: Congratulations to Eric Frey and Sara Savage.  Their paper now appears in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05184.x)
• 2010-02-20: Lauren Regueyra and I are off to the 2010 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. Erik Alquist, Junaid Farooqi, and Josh Jasensky are also authors on the poster she is presenting.
  
• 2010-02-10: Erik Rotterman is selected into the 2010 Undergraduate Summer Scholars program.
• 2010-01-25: Michael Zatt and Kartik Warikoo are spring 2010 FYRE (First Year Research Experience) participants.
  
• 2010-01-20: Erik Zachwieja presents a talk on his fall 2009 capstone project at the Physics Deparment seminar .
  

Fall 2009

• 2009-11-20: Lauren Regueyra has received a Biophysical Society Minority Biophysicist Travel Grant to attend the 2010 Annual Meeting. Selection of awardees is based on scientific merit. (screen capture of University news release)
• 2009-10-09: Jordan Ryan and Erik Alquist 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!
  
• 2009-09-30: Jorday Ryan has been awarded an OSAPS Travel Grant award.
  
• 2009-09-30: Jordan Ryan and Lauren Regueyra presented results of their research projects at the Department's weekly seminar.
  
• 2009-09-22: Eric Frey and Sara Savage's paper has been accepted for publication in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: High-Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology - Fifth International Conference. 
  

University News Releases

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• 2009-12-01: Lauren Regueyra awarded Minority Biophysics Travel Grant
  
• 2009-02-19: promotion and tenure
  
• 2009-01-05: Miami researchers: "No need to reinvent wheel" for studying life at extreme pressures
• 2008-02-29: Gregory Benford visits as Benson Memorial Lecturer
  
• 2008-01-14: Eric Frey awarded Biophysical Society student travel award
  
• 2007-05-24: Eric Frey awarded Astronaut Scholarship
• 2007-04-20: Eric Frey awarded Goldwater Scholarship
• 2005-04-18: Jeremy Clark awarded Goldwater Scholarship