Announcements
Please join us for a seminar by Dr. Sebastian Requena on Friday, Oct. 31 at 2:00 pm in SWR 357.
Congratulations to graduate students Diya Vashani, who won the best poster award, and Anthony Gerg, who won best oral presentation, at the TAOAPS section fall meeting!
Ph.D graduate Dr. Amy Ray is featured in a recent article on Texas Skies.
Undergraduate Gabriel McCarthy was named an APS Student Ambassador!
Congratulations to Intrapic, a startup originating from Dr. Anton Naumov's lab, for receiving a grant from Neeley's CREATE Accelerator!
Congratulations to our recent award winners! Dr. Anton Naumov won the Dean's Award for Research and Creative Activity; Dr. Peter Frinchaboy won the CSE award for outstanding graduate mentor; Dr. Alina Valimukhametova won the CSE award for best dissertation; Dr. Dustin Johnson won the department's outstanding graduate TA award; Anthony Gerg won the best SRS physics poster; and Tiffany McHenry was named senior scholar!
RAP students Arjan Suri and Sahaj Satani have published their work on RSV vaccines in Epidemiologia!
- Ta, D.D., B. Lee, A. Jablonska, W. L. Burnett, R. Sagoo, D. Pham, L. Ceresa, J. L. Chavez, J. D. Kimball, C. B. Powell, J. L. Coffer, K. N. Green, I. Gryczynski, Z. Gryczynski, B. G. Janesko, and S. V. Dzyuba. "Symmetric Bis-Kryptopyrrol-2-Yl Squaraine as a Viscosity Probe and Dual-State Emitter". 2025 ChemPhotoChem.
- Alina Valimukhametova, Olga Zub, Natalia Castro-Lopez, Diya Vashani, Himish Paul, Ugur Can Topkiran, Ali Gasimli, Kseniia Malkova, Floyd L. Wormley Jr., Anton V. Naumov, "Combination Diagnostics In Vivo: Dual-Mode Ultrasound/NIR Fluorescence Imaging with Neodymium- and Thulium-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots" 2025 ACS Applied Biomaterials.
- A. Gerg and H.M. Dobrovolny, "Quantifying Impact of HIV Receptor Surface Density Reveals Differences in Fusion Dynamics of HIV Strains" 2025 Viruses.
- R Max Petty, R. M. L. Ceresa, E. Alexander, D. Pham, N. Sabnis, R. Fudala, A. G. Lacko, R. R. Krishnamoorthy, Z. Gryczynski, I. Gryczynski. "Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Drug Loading Assessment in Reconstituted High-Density Lipoprotein Nanoparticles", 2025 Int. J. Mol. Sci.
- G. McCarthy and H.M. Dobrovolny, "Determining the best mathematical model for implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions," 2025 Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering.
- D. A. Johnson, P. Ahluwalia, J. H. Brannon, P. Jodhka, V. Wayman, Z. Rabine, and Y. M. Strzhemechny, "Influence of morphology and surface properties on the antibacterial
action of GaOOH microparticles", 2025 Biointerphases.
- Ugur C. Topkiran, Alina R. Valimukhametova, Diya Vashani, Himish Paul, Abby Dorsky,
Olivia Sottile, Dustin A. Johnson, William Burnett, Jeffery L. Coffer, Giridhar R. Akkaraju, Anton V. Naumov, "Holistic Investigation of Graphene Quantum Dot Endocytosis", 2025 Small.
- Lee, B.; Jablonska, A.; Pham, D.; Sagoo, R.; Gryczynski, Z.; Pham, T.T.; Gryczynski, I, "Luminescence Properties of Hoechst 33258 in Polyvinyl Alcohol Films", 2025 International Journal of Molecular Science.
- Oct. 31, Dr. Sebastian Requena at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Oct. 15, Dr. Rafal J. Wiglusz from the Polish Academy of Sciences will speak about "Nanotechnology - panacea or Pandora's box?" at 2 pm in SWR LH1.
- April 5, Dr. Megan Reiter from Rice University will speak about "The Role of Ecology in Star and Planet Formation" at 2:00 pm.
- March 21, Emma Alexander from TCU will speak on "Room temperature phosphorescence: Investigation
into external perturbation of PVA film to enhance spin-orbit coubpling" at 2:00 pm.
- March 8, Dr. Eric Anantua from UT San Antonio will speak on "A Tale of Two Shadows: Emission
Modeling Horizon-Scale Observations of Sgr A* and M87* at 2:00 pm.
- March 1, Dr. Eric Davis from Los Alamos National Laboratory will speak on "Applied Acoustics Research at LANL: Leveraging Science & Engineering for Critical Applications" at 2:00 pm.