{"id":452,"date":"2017-07-11T12:24:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/?page_id=452"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:01:50","slug":"news-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/news-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"News & Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2022<\/h3>\n
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TBD<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n
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2021<\/h3>\n
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Heather Blackwell\u00a0<\/b>was awarded the\u00a0Best Nano-Magnetic Poster at University of Florida’s Nanoday 2021<\/span><\/h5>\n
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2020<\/h3>\n
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David Hall <\/b>was awarded the NSF GRFP Fellowship<\/span><\/h5>\n
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2019<\/h3>\n
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TBD<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n
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2018<\/h3>\n
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BRITTANY PARTAIN<\/b><\/span><\/span>\u00a0was awarded a Graduate Student Council Travel Grant and a BME Departmental Travel Award to attend BMES, where she will be giving an oral presentation.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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OBIORA AZIE<\/b><\/span><\/span>\u00a0was selected to participate in the Summer, 2018 NSF Dissertation Institute Program at the University of Houston.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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MACKENZIE GRUBB\u00a0<\/b>was selected as a Fernandez Family Scholar for Fall, 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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OBIORA AZIE<\/b><\/span><\/span>\u00a0was awarded the\u00a0Delores Auzenne Dissertation Award for Fall, 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Congratulations\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>NOA GROOMS\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b>who will be pursuing a PhD at Northeastern\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>University<\/span> and to <\/span>SAM WARNOCK<\/span><\/b> who will be pursuing a PhD at UC Santa Barbara<\/span> starting Fall, 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Former PhD student,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>MELISSA CRUZ-ACUNA<\/span><\/b><\/span>, will be joining Jamal Lewis’s lab at UC-Davis as a postdoc.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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CHRIS NACEA\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b>received the 2018\u00a0Gene Suave Scholarship<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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2017<\/h3>\n
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JON DOBSON<\/strong> and CARLOS RINALDI are Co-editors of a forthcoming book from CRC Press – <\/span>“Nanomagnetic Actuation of Cell Surface Receptors: Basic Principles and Applications”<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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NOA GROOMS<\/strong> 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.<\/span><\/h5>\n
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SAM WARNOCK<\/strong>\u00a0was selected as a UF University Scholar for the 2017-2018 academic year.<\/span><\/h5>\n
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OLIVIA LANIER<\/strong> was awarded a NSF Fellowship to attend the\u00a0International\u00a0Summer\u00a0School\u00a0on Bio-X:Biocomplexity, Biodesign, and\u00a0Bioinnovation in Crete.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
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JON DOBSON<\/strong>\u00a0received the International Journal of Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award presented at a special invited session of the Society for Biomaterials.<\/span><\/h5>\n
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OLIVIA LANIER\u00a0<\/strong>received an\u00a0Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Fellowship.<\/span><\/h5>\n
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2016<\/h3>\n
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Our lab’s summer high school student, DAYITA WABLE<\/strong>, presented her work at NanoFlorida with OLIVIA LANIER<\/strong>.<\/span><\/h5>\n
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OLIVIA LANIER<\/strong> – Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program<\/span><\/h5>\n
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2015<\/h3>\n
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JON DOBSON <\/strong>was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).<\/span><\/h5>\n
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JON DOBSON <\/strong>was elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).<\/span><\/h5>\n
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OLIVIA LANIER<\/strong> was awarded a Pittman Fellowship from the\u00a0Institute for Cell and Tissue Science and Engineering, University of Florida.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
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YASH SHAH<\/strong> –\u00a0Best Poster Presentation at Biomedical Engineering Society\u00a0<\/strong>Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Tampa, FL<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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ADAM MONSALVE won Best Oral Presentation at SFB Biomaterials Day at UF.<\/span><\/h5>\n
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