| 2009 |
- Kelly Plathe gave
a talk at the 19th Annual
Goldschmidt Conference in Davos, Switzerland (June 09).
- Former PhD student
(2002) Erin O' Reilly has accepted a job as the Physical Scientist
at the Mineral Management Services (MMS), Gulf of Mexico Region.
- Former PhD student
Nick Wigginton (2008) took a job as Associate Editor at Science
Magazine.
- Rebecca French and
Bojeong Kim published a paper entitled “Influence of Ionic Strength,
pH, and Cation Valence on Aggregation Kinetics of Titanium Dioxide
Nanoparticles" in ES&T.
- Carol Johnson nominated
as an EIGER fellow.
|
| 2008 |
- Kelly Plathe attended
the 3rd
International Conference on Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles
and Nanomaterials in Birmingham, England (9/14/08), then spent
3 months in Vienna, Austria and Goteborg, Sweden for her EIGER
international internship.
- Nick Wigginton took
a post-doctoral position at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne.
- Deric Learman moved to Boston to take a post-doctoral position
at Harvard.
- Rebecca receives travel
grant for Goldschmidt
2008 in Vancouver, BC. (6/7/08)
- Congrats to Deric
for successfully defending his Ph.D! (5/29/08)
- Congrats to Nick for
successfully defending his Ph.D! (4/21/08)
- Read the press releases
on Mike's Science Review article "Nanominerals,
mineral nanoparticles, and Earth systems" here
and here.
(3/20/08)
- Mike is featured on
the VT webpage's "Spotlight on Achievement" section
link
(3/3/08)
- Deborah travels to
Birmingham, UK to attend an author's meeting for the book "Environmental
and Human Health Consequences of Manufactured Nanoparticles"
to present her chapter. (2/5/08)
|
| 2007 |
- Mike to speak at this
fall's graduate commencement ceremony on Friday, December 14.
link
- Read the recent press
release about
 Mike's
new cover article on "Aquatic Environmental Nanoparticles"
in Journal of Environmental Monitoring (see right). (12/2/07)
- Mike is elected as
a AAAS fellow. VT
News; Collegiate
Times (11/5/07)
- Deric to speak at
the GLC
Speaker Series on November 2nd at 4:00. The title of his talk
is "The Bacteria Whisperer: Understanding Cell-to-Cell Communication
in the Environment." Check it out! (10/16/07)
- The group is pleased
to welcome Bojeong Kim (Ph.D. 2006, Cornell) to the group as a
new Post-Doc. (9/26/07)
- Deric
headed down to Oak Ridge National
Laboratory to study bacterial quorum sensing in September.
(9/24/07)
- The group welcomes
new Ph.D. student Rebecca French (M.S. 2007, Cornell). (8/25/07)
- Mike has just been
honored with the rank of University Distinguished Professor by
the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors! link
(6/7/07)
- Recent
Ph.D. alumnus Andrew
Madden has accepted an assistant professor position from the
School of Geology and Geophysics at Oklahoma University. (5/10/07)
- Alison
Smith has been awarded the Outstanding Senior Award from the
College of Science and was also selected as Virginia Tech Undergraduate
Woman of the Year. Congratulations Alison!! (3/27/07)
- Mike has been awarded
the Geochemical Society's
Distinguished Service Award. He will be presented with the award
at the 2007 Goldschmidt
Conference in Cologne, Germany this August. (3/13/07)
- Prof.
Lee Penn (University of Minnesota) met with our group and
gave a special ICTAS seminar
in March. The title of her talk was "Chemical, Physical,
and Structural Properties of Oxide Nanoparticles." (3/12/07)
- Mike and former student
Steven Lower are featured in an Science/AAAS career development
article "Making
the Leap to Independence." (3/2/07)
- Nick Wigginton was
selected to participate in the 4th Annual Interfacial and Condensed
Phase Chemical Physics Summer
Research Institute hosted by PNNL this summer. (2/8/07)
- Mike was recently
interviewed by microbeworld.org
(download the mp3 here).
In the short program featured on NPR, he discusses bioreduction
of hematite nanoparticles. (1/1/07)
|
| 2006 |
|
| 2005 |
- Mike awarded Virginia’s
Outstanding Scientist Award VT
News link Collegiate
Times
- The EIGER
project at VT is funded with Mike as Principal Investigator link
- Elements
magazine releases its first issue. Mike is one of three principal
scientific editors and fellow VT professor Bob Bodnar served as
Guest Editor for the inaugural issue VT
news link
- Mike awarded Virginia
Tech Alumni Award for Research Excellence link
- Andy awarded Geosciences
Outstanding Service Recognition Award
- Saumya awarded MSA
Mineralogy and Petrology research grant
- Deric receives Graduate
Assistantship in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship
- Press release covering
Tracy Bank's work relating to bacterial transport in groundwater
link
|
| 2004 |
- Highlight on Andy
Madden's research link
- GSA press release
for Mike's talk on metal transport in Montana's Clark Fork River
Superfund complex link
- Mike speaks at GSA
symposium honoring Prof. Paul Ribbe, former series editor for
Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry and emeritus professor
at Virginia Tech VT
News
|
| 2003 |
- The group receives
DOE's Most Outstanding Research at a Univeristy Award link
- Treavor Kendall awarded
Geosciences Outstanding Service Recognition Award
- Andy awarded MSA Mineralogy
and Petrology research grant
- Research highlight
about Erin O'Reilly's work link
|
| 2002 |
- Mike receives Dana
Medal from Mineralogical Society of America
- News Release about
Treavor Kendall's research link
|
| 2001 |
- Mike awarded Alexander
Von Humboldt award link
- Andy awarded National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Highlights on Steven
Lower's Shewanella/AFM research VT
link,
DOE BES, Science
Magazine
|
| 2000 |
- Barry Bickmore awarded
Outstanding Dissertation, Virginia Tech
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