Hochella Group
News Archive
2008
  • 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
  • Mike elected fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) link
  • Saumya Bose successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats Saumya!
  • Biofuel cells without the biofuels: A highlight on an article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that used some of Saumya's synthetic hematite nanoparticles.
  • Mike travels to PNNL on Nov 29-30 for the Biogeochemistry Grand Challenge close-out meeting.
  • Dr. Deborah Aruguete (Ph.D. 2006, UC, Berkeley) joins the group in October as a post-doctoral researcher.
  • Read the press release about Saumya's ACS talk in San Francisco.
  • Nick nominated to attend 56th annual meeting of Nobel laureates and students in Lindau, Germany, July 2006 link
  • Kelly nominated as EIGER fellow in Spring 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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