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Last Updated: May 8, 2012

2011

• 2011-05-20: Congratulations to graduating seniors - Jordan Ryan and Erik Rotterman.  Both are off to medical school.
  
• 2011-04-29: Erik Rotterman successfully defended his departmental honors thesis.  Erik is also receiving University Honors with Distinction.
  
• 2011-04-27: Congratulations to lab members recognized at the Department's annual awards seminar.
• Jordan Ryan was named the Department's Outstanding Researcher.
• Erik Rotterman, Eric Todd, and Mike Zatt received Commendations in Undergraduate Research.
• 2011-04-13: Erik Rotterman, Jordan Ryan, and Mike Zatt present their work at the 2011 Undergraduate Research Forum.
  
• 2011-04-12: Jun Cheng is inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honors society. Jordan Ryan was inducted in 2010.
  
• 2011-02-11: David Knowles is selected into the 2011 Undergraduate Summer Scholars program.
  
• 2011-01-19: Jordan Ryan will be presenting at the national American Physical Society March Meeting in Dallas, TX.
  
• 2011-01-19: Jun Cheng has successfully presented his master's prospectus.

2010

• 2010-11-15: Jordan Ryan has been accepted to the Indiana University School of Medicine. Congratulations!
  
• 2010-09-23: National Science Foundation grant awared for biological physics research involving students. (news release)
• 2010-07-27: Congratulations to Erik Alquist for successfully defending his thesis!
• 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 .

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. 
• 2009-07-23: Junaid Farooqi has successfully defended his thesis.  He is soon off to UT-San Antonio for his doctorate in physics. Best wishes!
• 2009-05-09: Best wishes to Class of 2009 graduates Josh Jasensky, Sara Savage, and Brian Casto. Enjoy your summers and good luck in graduate school!
  
• 2009-05-01: Congratulations to Josh Jasensky for successfully defending his departmental honors thesis.
  
• 2009-04-29: Congratulations to people earning awards at the Department's annual awards seminar: Josh Jasensky for the Department's Outstanding Researcher award; to Sara Savage for the Department's Commendation in Undergradaute Research award; to Erik Zachwieja for a Culler award; and to Lauren Regueyra for being inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, the national physics honors society. Also congratulations graduating seniors and graduate students.  Josh, Sara, Brian, and Junaid have been accepted to graduate programs in biophysics, biology, medical physics, and physics respectively.
  
• 2009-04-20: Lauren Regueyra has been selected as a 2010 CAS Dean's Scholar, providing funds for Lauren to present results of her research at a professional conference.
• 2009-04-16: Josh Jasensky, Sara Savage, and Junaid Farooqi have been inducted into Sigma Xi.  Congratulations!
  
• 2009-02-06: Congratulations to Jordan Ryan and Lauren Regueyra who have been selected 2009 Undergraduate Summer Scholars.
• 2009-01-05: Research performed in the laboratory is featured in a University news release.

2008

• 2008-12-17: Congratulations to Brian Casto and Josh Jasensky, who have successfully defended their senior capstone projects.
• 2008-12-12: Sara Savage has been awarded a Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research grant, a nationally competitive program for graduate and undergraduate students with a 20% funding rate!
• 2008-11-28: Congratulations to Hector DePedro. His paper now appears in Analytical Biochemistry. doi:10.1016/j.ab.2008.10.007
• 2008-10-10: Senior physics major Josh Jasensky presented his poster "Intermolecular interactions of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) in solution" at the Fall 2008 meeting of the Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical Society.  Junaid Farooqi was a co-author.
  
• 2008-10-08: Congratulations to Hector DePedro. His paper has been accepted for publication in Analytical Biochemistry.
• 2008-09-23: Scott Keller, Jon Dudley, Katie Binzel, Josh Jasensky, Hector DePedro, and Eric Frey's paper now appears in Analytical Chemistry.  The paper can be found at doi:10.1021/ac801252q. 
• 2008-08-22: Eric Frey and Sara Savage’s abstract has been accepted for a talk at the Fifth International High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology Conference.
• 2008-08-18: Work by Thomas Haver and Erica Raber is featured in the "Technology Solutions" section of the August 2008 Biophotonics International. (publisher's link)(printer-friendly version)
  
• 2008-08-14: Congratulations to Scott Keller, Jon Dudley, Katie Binzel, Josh Jasensky, Hector DePedro, and Eric Frey.  Their paper has been accepted for publication in Analytical Chemistry, one of the top journals in the analytical chemistry field!
  
• 2008-08-13: Congratulations to Daniel Horne, who has successfully defended his senior capstone project.
  
• 2008-07-28: Hector Michael DePedro has successfully defended his thesis.  He is now off to UT Dallas for his doctorate. Best wishes!
  
• 2008-07-01: A research proposal to Research Corporation is being funded.
  
• 2008-05-31: Congratulations to Thomas Haver and Erica Raber. Their paper is now in print in the Journal of Microscopy.
• 2008-05-05: Eric Frey and Michael Eldridge's paper has been chosen for inclusion in the April 15, 2008, edition of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
  
• 2008-04-30: The lab made a great showing at this year's Physics Department awards seminar.
• Eric Frey was awarded the Outstanding Senior and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research awards.
• Hector Michael DePedro was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Research award.
• Josh Jasensky, Scott Keller, and Michael Maffett all received department Commendation in Undergraduate Research awards.
  
• 2008-04-25: Michael Maffett and Eric Frey have successfully defended their University and Department honors theses.
  
• 2008-04-17: Eric Frey and Hector Michael de Pedro have been inducted into Sigma Xi.  Keep up the good research!
  
• 2008-04-11: Congratulations to Eric Frey and Michael Eldridge. Their paper appears in print in the Review of Scientific Instruments.
  
• 2008-03-03: I hosted Gregory Benford, this year's George C. Benson Memorial Lecturer. (screen capture of University press release) Gregory Benford, an eminent astrophysicist and science fiction writer, was my undergraduate research mentor.
• 2008-03-03: Michael Maffett will be attending a medical-physics masters program after graduation. Scott Keller will be attending  a graduate program in health administration. Both programs were top choices for Michael and Scott. Congratulations!
  
• 2008-02-13: Josh Jasensky have been selected to be a 2008 Undergraduate Summer Scholar.
• 2008-02-04: Eric Frey presented his poster "Fluorescence-based calcium-ion sensing at high hydrostatic pressures" at the 2008 Biophysical Society meeting.

2007

• 2007-12-13: Eric Frey has been awarded a Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research grant, a nationally competitive program with a 20% funding rate!
• 2007-12-05: Congratulations to Thomas Haver and Erica Raber, two recent masters graduates. Their paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Microscopy.
• 2007-11-15: Eric Frey's abstract has been accepted to the 2008 Biophysical Society annual meeting.
• 2007-11-08: Congratulations to Eric Frey, who has been awarded a Student Travel Award to the 2008 Biophysical Society annual meeting 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. (screen capture of University press release)
• 2007-10-19: Congratulations to Thomas Haver (poster), Eric Frey (talk), and Scott Keller and Josh Jasensky (poster, co-presenters), who were presenting authors at the Fall 2007 meeting of the Ohio-Region Section of the APS. Erica Raber and Hector Michael de Pedro were also co-author.
• 2007-08-16: Congratulations to Thomas Haver, who successfully defended his masters thesis. He's off to OSU's doctoral program in biophysics.
• 2007-05-29: Eric Frey has been awarded the Provost's Student Academic Achievement Award, and is one of approximately 10 students to be honored at the fall convocation.
• 2007-05-21: Eric Frey has been awarded a prestigious 2007-2008 Astronaut Scholarship. (screen capture of University press release)
• 2007-04-25: Congratulations to lab members who won awards at the Department's award ceremony. Thomas Haver (AAPT Outstanding Teaching Award), Mike Salerno (Outstanding Researcher Award), Katie Binzel and Jon Dudley (Research Commendation Award).
• 2007-04-18: Thomas Haver has been awarded a Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research grant.
• 2007-04-12: Eric Frey has been selected as the 2007-2008 Dean's Scholar for physics.
• 2007-04-05: Katie Binzel, Jon Dudley, and Thomas Haver have been inducted into Sigma Xi.
• 2007-04-02: Eric Frey has been awarded the nationally prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. (screen capture of University press release)
• 2007-03-15: Scott Keller and Eric Frey have been selected to be 2007 Undergraduate Summer Scholars.
• 2007-03-15: Michael Salerno's first-authored paper appears in print. Other co-authors are Jacob Ajimo, Jon Dudley, and Katie Binzel.
• 2007-03-01: Congratulations to graduating lab members. Katie Binzel, Jon Dudley, and Thomas Haver have been accepted to well-recognized doctoral programs in biophysics or biomedical engineerig.