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Strouse Group News
New Graduate Students
- November 2019 -
Welcome Bella B., James K., and Jason K. to the group!
Introducing
Dr. David Hardy
- October 17, 2019 -
Congratulations to David! He defended his thesis titled “Understanding the Behavior and Structure of Nanocrystalline Material through the Interactions of Photons”.
Sermacs 2019
-October 2019-
Carl, Eddie, and Raul all gave presentations at the 2019 Southeastern Regional ACS Meeting in Savannah, GA.
FIMS 2019
- September 2019 -
Carl, Eddie, and Raul presented on their work at the 2019 Florida Inorganic and Materials Symposium hosted by the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.
258th ACS National Meeting, San Diego
- August 2019 -
Carl and Eddie presented on their work in San Diego, CA. They also met up with Strouse alumnus and TA representative Dr. Parth Vakil!
257th ACS National Meeting, Orlando
- March 2019 -
Carl, David, Eddie, Rodney, and Dr. Strouse all gave presentations in Orlando, FL.
New Graduate Students
- November 2018 -
Welcome Carl C. and Raul O., who joined the Strouse lab!
Sermacs 2018
- October 2018 -
Parth, Jasleen, and Rodney presented their work at the 2018 Southeastern Regional ACS Meeting in Augusta, GA.
256th ACS National Meeting, Boston
- August 2018 -
David and Jasleen gave oral presentations on their work while Matt and Eddie gave poster presentations.
Introducing
Dr. Parth Vakil
- July 13, 2018 -
Congratulations to Parth Vader, who defended his dissertation titled "Nanoparticle-Electromagnetic Radiation Interaction: Implications and Applications"!
Introducing
Dr. Katelyn Carnevale
- July 11, 2018 -
Congratulations to Kate, who successfully defended her thesis titled "Nano-BioSensors: Probing Intracellular Response to Nanoparticle Therapy"!
Fame 2018
- May 2018 -
Chris, Matt, David, Eddie, and Tony presented their work at the 2018 Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition in Tampa!
Introducing
Dr. David Carnevale
-November 20 2017-
Congratulations to Dave, who successfully defended his dissertation titled "Understanding Magnetic Exchange Behavior in Core@Shell Nanoparticles"!
Introducing
Dr. Bridgett Ashley
- November 15, 2017 -
Congratulations to Bridgett, who successfully defended her dissertation titled "Understanding the 'Microwave' in Microwave Chemistry"!
New Graduate Student
- November 2017 -
Welcome to Eddie N. who joined the Strouse Lab this fall!
252nd National ACS Meeting
-August 2016-
David Hardy, Dave Carnevale, Parth and Dr. Strouse presented their work and helped recruit for the FSU Chemistry Graduate Program at the 252nd National ACS Meeting and Exposition in Philladelphia, PA.
GEM-Oakridge Internship
- Summer 2016 -
As part of her "GEM Fellowship" award, Kerestin was able to spend the summer doing collaboartive research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory this Summer!
Introducing
Dr. Ryan Riskowski
- June 28th, 2016 -
Congratulations to Ryan, who successfully defended his dissertation on the "Theory and Applications of Surface Energy Transfer for 2-20 nm Diameter Metal Nanoparticles." The student has become like the teacher.
FAME in Tampa, FL
-May 7th, 2016-
David Hardy gave an oral presention on his work on the "Synthesis of Tm3+ -Doped Nanospinel for Blue Down-Shifting LED Phosphors" at the Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition near beautiful Tampa, FL!
Strouse Group Fellowship Recipients
- April 2016 -
Kate was awarded the "Joseph M. Scor Fellowship in Biochemistry", and Kerestin was awarded the "GEM Fellowship" AND the "Leslie N. Wilson - Delores Auzenne Fellowship for Minorities" this Spring! Congratualtions to Kerestin and Kate!
Invited Speaker:
Jorge Cham
- March 16th, 2016 -
Kate worked with the Graduate Women in Science and the Students for the Effective Communictaion of Scicene to bring Author and Comic, Dr. Jorge Cham, to FSU to give a talk on "The Power of Procrastination" as well as to screen his new movie "Piled Higher and Deep 2: Still in Grad School"
Chemistry Christmas Party
-December 10th, 2015-
Strouse group attended the anual FSU Chemistry Department Christmas Party!
SERMACS-SWRM
- Nov. 4-7th, 2015 -
Dave, Kate, Dr. Strouse and Megan presented their work at the South East & South West Joint Regional ACS Conference in Memphis, TN.
New Graduate Students
- November 2015-
Welcome to David H. and Kerestin G. who joined the Strouse Lab this Fall!
Introducing
Dr. Megan Foley
- October 28th, 2015 -
Congratulations to Megan for the successful defense of her Ph.D. Dissertation!
Introducing
Dr. Rachel Armstrong
- October 27th, 2015-
Congratulations to Rachel for the successful defense of her Ph.D. Dissertation!
250th ACS National Meeting, Boston
- August 16-20th, 2015 -
The Strouse group was invited to give talks at the ACS national meeting in Boston. Click here to listen to talks by Kate, Ryan, and Dr. Strouse on the ACS website.
FIMS
-October 10th, 2015-
Dave presented his work at the Florida Inorganic Materials Symposium(FIMS) hosted by UF in Gainesville, FL.
NanoFlorida at FSU
- May 12-15th, 2015 -
Ryan was selected to be an organizer of the NanoFlorida conference held at FSU! He also presented his work, as did Dave, Parth, Megan and Dr. Strouse was an invited speaker.
FSU Life Sciences Symposium
- February 19th, 2015 -
Kate presented her work at the Florida State College of Medicine Life Sciences Symposium.
Art in STEM Event
-February 12th, 2015-
The Strouse group presented at the First Annual "Art in STEM Exhibit" Organized by Graduate Women in Science Organization held at the FSU Dirac Science Library. Parth presented his image of Nickel and Gold Nanoparticle solutions, Ryan presented his Confocal Microscopy Image of QDs in slug ganglia, and Kate presented her Fluorescence Microscopy Image of Human Glioma Cells Transfected with peptide functionalized QDs.
3MT at FSU
- November 18th, 2014 -
Ryan and Rachel were both finalists
in the "3 Minute Thesis" Competition
at FSU in the Fall of 2014. Watch Rachel's talk on "Early disease detection by designing better sensors."
Watch Ryan's talk on "Wireless Nanoscale Instruments."
Natural Sciences Graduate Symposium
- October 10th, 2014 -
Kate presented her work on "Nano-biosensor: Probing Intracellular Response to Nanoparticle Delivery" at the 2014 Natural Sciences Graduate Research Symposium held at the Oglesby Union at FSU.
MMM School at FSU
- Summer 2012 and 2014 -
Dave and Dr. Strouse helped run the "Magnetic Materials and Magnetism" summer school hosted by FSU Chemistry and Biochemisty to teach junior and senior undergraduate students more about fields they may pursue in higher learning.
Gordon Conference Poster
- June 2014 -
Ryan presented a poster on his work with "Theoretical Model of Nanoparticle Size-Dependence on Nanometal Surface Energy Transfer (NSET)" during the national Gordon Conference at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, in June of 2014.
FSU Global Citizen Award
- Spring 2014 -
Parth was awarded the 2014 Global Citizen Award for his efforts in making FSU's campus a "global village."
Group Lunch
- Fall 2013 -
Work hard, play hard!
The Strouse Group loves eating, laughing and having a good times!!
TED Talks at FSU
- Spring 2013 -
Parth worked with the College of Graduate Students to help organize a series of TED Talks at FSU.
Life Sciences Symposium
- Spring 2013
Kate and Parth Presented thier work on "Nanoparticle Assisted Genetic Engineering for Protein Expression in Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells" at the Life Sciences Symposium hosted by the FSU College of Medicine.
"Internation-Nole" Leadership Workshop
- Spring 2013 -
Parth presented on time-management and other tips for college students at the Florida International Leadership Conference 2013 and at InternationNole's Leadership Workshop 2013. He was also interviewed by Character Clearinghouse for his leadership as a graduate student here at FSU.
244th National Meeting, Philadelphia
- August 21-25, 2012 -
Rachel won the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry Top Poster award at the 244th National ACS Conference, Philadelphia, PA in August 2012 for her work on "Measuring biophysical constants with an NSET torque wrench." Dave presented a poster on his work with "Synthesis of Nanoscale Permanent Magnets".
SWRM Presentation
- October 2012 -
Dave presented his work on "Synthesis of Nanoscale Magnets" at the ACS South West Regional Meeting (SWRM) in Battonrouge, LA in October of 2012.
Top Poster at FAME
- April 2011 -
Rachel won the Top Poster Award at The Florida Annual Meeting & Exposition (FAME) in Palm Harbor, FL with her work on "A Single-Construct Aptamer-NP Conjugate for the Sensitive Optical Detection of ATP" in April of 2011.
Octo-pi-rates Robotics Club Mentor
Ryan spends his free time helping out with the "Octo-Pi-Rates" Robotics club at Full Sail, a local high school.
Global Ambassador Program
As an international student who has lived in India, Kenya and Canada, Parth is a Global Ambassador for FSU's Center of Global Engagement through GAP (Global Ambassador Program) where he talks about life abroad to elementary schoolers as well as FSU students.