Announcements
05/20/2025
Congratulations to Chamika Algama for receiving the Fall 2025 Initiatives of the Bersoff Scholarship Funds in the College of Humanities and Sciences!!!
05/14/2024
Congratulations to Chamika Algama for receiving the Fall 2024 Gerald and Susan Bass Scholarship!!!
Congratulations to Roaa Mahmoud for successfully defending her Ph.D. defense!!!
Congratulations to Srishty Sethi for receiving the Fall 2024 Lidia M. Vallerino Scholarship in Chemistry !!!
12/03/2023
Congratulations to Chamika Algama on successfully defending her Ph.D. proposal!!!
11/13/2023
Congratulations to Kalani Wijesinghe for successfully defending her Ph.D. defense !!!
06/01/2023
Congratulations to Roaa Mahmoud for receiving the Bass Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year !!!
Congratulations to Kalani Wijesinghe for receiving the Albert T. Sneden III Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year !!!
05/04/2023
Dr. Dhakal is on Bruker Research Highlight: Optical-Tweezers-Based Mechanical Manipulation Makes Novel Research Possible
05/06/2022
Congratulations to Roaa Mahmoud for receiving the Albert T. Sneden III Scholarship 2022-2023 academic year !!!
04/17/2022
Congratulations to Kalani Wijesinghe for receiving the Altria Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year !!!
Congratulations to Roaa Mahmoud for receiving the Departmental Summer Fellowship for the 2022 summer!!!
06/12/2021
Congratulations to Mischa Ellison for being accepted for the MS program at Arizona State University (ASU) funded by the ACS Bridge program!!!
6/01/2021
Congratulations to Anoja Megalathan for her postdoctoral position at Yale University!!!
5/28/2021
Congratulations to Sydney Pettit for receiving the NIH Postbaccalaureate fellowship!!!
5/10/2021
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for her position as a Research Scientist at PPD Richmond!!!
Congratulations to Kalani Wijesinghe for receiving the Lidia M. Vallerino Scholarship in Chemistry for 2021-2022 academic year !!!
4/12/2021
Congratulations to Anoja Megalathan for successfully defending her PhD defense !!!
4/08/2021
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for successfully defending her PhD defense !!!
03/29/2021
Congratulations to Dalton Gibbs for successfully defending his PhD defense !!!
05/15/2020
Congratulations to Dalton Gibbs for receiving the Distinguished Chemist Fund Award 2020 !!!
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for receiving the Lidia M. Vallerino Scholarship in Chemistry for the 2020-2021 academic year !!!
Congratulations to Mischa Ellison for receiving the UROP Fellowship 2020 !!!
02/05/2020
A manuscript entitled ‘FRET-Based Aptasensor for the Selective and Sensitive Detection of Lysozyme’ has been accepted for publication in Sensors. Congratulations to the entire team!!!
08/05/2019
A manuscript entitled ‘Single-step FRET-based detection of femtomoles DNA’ has been accepted for publication in Sensors. Congratulations to the entire team!!!
06/17/2019
A manuscript (collaborative project with Dr. Reiner at VCU Physics) entitled ‘Single molecule analysis of i-motif within self-assembled DNA duplexes and nanocircles’ is accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations to the entire team!!!
04/24/2019
Congratulations to Kumar Sapkota on successfully defending his Ph.D. proposal!!!
04/15/2019
Congratulations to Benjamin Kass for receiving the Baker Award 2019 !!!
Congratulations to Anoja Megalathan for receiving the Distinguished Chemist Fund Award 2019 !!!
03/28/2019
Congratulations to Dalton Gibbs for receiving the Altria Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year !!!
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for receiving the Altria Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year !!!
02/20/2019
Anisa’s paper entitled ‘Multiplexed nucleic acid sensing with single-molecule FRET’ has been accepted for publication in ACS Sensors. Congratulations Anisa!!!
11/27/2018
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur on successfully defending her Ph.D. proposal!!!
11/19/2018
Congratulations to A. Megalathan on successfully defending her Ph.D. proposal!!!
11/16/2018
Congratulations to Dalton Gibbs on successfully defending his Ph.D. proposal!!!
05/16/2018
Dalton’s paper on single-molecule fluorescence analysis of the ‘Conformational manipulation of Holliday junction (HJ) DNA by RuvA protein‘ is accepted for publication in Biochemistry. Congratulations Dalton!!!
07/17/2017
Dr. Dhakal to present as a Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanochemistry 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia on the topic ‘From Material to Biotechnology Applications of Structural DNA Nanotechnology’.
05/05/2017
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for receiving the Billy Stump/Ray Ottenbrite Fellowship!!!