News & Awards
2022
TBD
2021
Heather Blackwell was awarded the Best Nano-Magnetic Poster at University of Florida’s Nanoday 2021
2020
David Hall was awarded the NSF GRFP Fellowship
2019
TBD
2018
BRITTANY PARTAIN was awarded a Graduate Student Council Travel Grant and a BME Departmental Travel Award to attend BMES, where she will be giving an oral presentation.
OBIORA AZIE was selected to participate in the Summer, 2018 NSF Dissertation Institute Program at the University of Houston.
MACKENZIE GRUBB was selected as a Fernandez Family Scholar for Fall, 2018.
OBIORA AZIE was awarded the Delores Auzenne Dissertation Award for Fall, 2018.
Congratulations to NOA GROOMS who will be pursuing a PhD at Northeastern University and to SAM WARNOCK who will be pursuing a PhD at UC Santa Barbara starting Fall, 2018.
Former PhD student, MELISSA CRUZ-ACUNA, will be joining Jamal Lewis’s lab at UC-Davis as a postdoc.
CHRIS NACEA received the 2018 Gene Suave Scholarship.
2017
JON DOBSON and CARLOS RINALDI are Co-editors of a forthcoming book from CRC Press – “Nanomagnetic Actuation of Cell Surface Receptors: Basic Principles and Applications”.
NOA GROOMS was awarded the Gerald and Elaine L. Gibson scholarship from UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Noa also received the Anderson Scholar Award from UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
SAM WARNOCK was selected as a UF University Scholar for the 2017-2018 academic year.
OLIVIA LANIER was awarded a NSF Fellowship to attend the International Summer School on Bio-X:Biocomplexity, Biodesign, and Bioinnovation in Crete.
JON DOBSON received the International Journal of Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award presented at a special invited session of the Society for Biomaterials.
OLIVIA LANIER received an Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Fellowship.
2016
Our lab’s summer high school student, DAYITA WABLE, presented her work at NanoFlorida with OLIVIA LANIER.
OLIVIA LANIER – Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2015
JON DOBSON was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
JON DOBSON was elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
OLIVIA LANIER was awarded a Pittman Fellowship from the Institute for Cell and Tissue Science and Engineering, University of Florida.
YASH SHAH – Best Poster Presentation at Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Tampa, FL
ADAM MONSALVE won Best Oral Presentation at SFB Biomaterials Day at UF.