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                          News in 2011
11/15/2011
Congratulations to Dr. Wang! The paper "A Fluorogenic 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction of 3-Azidocoumarins and Acetylenes" is ranked as one of the Top 20 Most Cited articles published by Organic Letters.

11/10/2011
Congratulations to Eve! She has successfully defended her dissertation.

8/30/2011
Welcome Jun Hu to join our group!

8/25/2011
Andrew's article, "Altering the landscape of viruses and  bionanoparticles
" has been selected as cover story on the Organic & Biomolecular  Chemistry.
8/19/2011
Congratulations to Dr. Wang! The Board of trustees has approved his promotions to the Rank of Full Professor!

8/12/2011
Congratulations to Andrew! His article, "Altering the landscape of viruses and  bionanoparticles
" has been selected as HOT and highlighted on the Organic & Biomolecular  Chemistry blog at http://blogs.rsc.org/ob/. 

8/5/2011
Welcome Hong Guan and Yixing Cheng to join our group!

6/30/2011
Congratulations to Sharmi for receiving the Summer 2011 Travel Award (Cancer Research)!

6/6/2011
Welcome 2011 Summer Copenhaver fellowship recipient Enoch Adogla to join our group!

6/8/2011
Congratulations to Laying! Her cover and article "Electrospinning fabrication, structural and mechanical characterization of rod-like virus-based composite nanofibers" have been highlighted on the Journal of Materials Chemistry blog.       Link
6/1/2011
Congratulations to Hannah and Dr. Wang! Their result was reported by C&EN as a part of the vaccine story!      Link

5/26/2011
Congratulations to Laying! She has successfully defended her dissertation.

5/23/2011
Congratulations TO Dr. Qian Wang! He received a grant from the SC EPSCoR in the amount of $2,961.00 for his project entitled "1D and 2D Assembly of Plant Viruses for Materials Development."

5/19/2011
Congratulations to Dr. Qian Wang! He was recommending to the Board of Trustees to be promoted to the rank of Professor.


5/10/2011
Congratulations to Quyen for receiving the SURF Awards!

5/6/2011
Congratulations to Nikki for being winner of the "figure of the month"!

4/27/2011
Congratulations to Dr. Tang (PI), Dr. Benicewicz (Co-PI), Dr. Wang (Co-PI), Dr. K. Shimizu (Co-PI), Dr. L. Shimizu (Co-PI) for being awarded a grant from the ACS in the amount of $8600 for their project entitled "ACS Project Seed (Summer I and Summer II)".

Congratulations to Eve! Her paper was selected as cover story in Nano Research.
4/8/2011
Congratulations to Eve! She won the 2nd place for the poster presentation in Health & Life Sciences for Group 8.
3/25/2011
Congratulations to Xinrui! He's the winner of the "figure of the month"!

3/9/2011
Welcome Dr. Honglin Li to our group.

3/7/2011
Congratulations to Eve for receiving the IRIX Pharmaceutical Awards!

3/3/2011
Congratulations to Gagan for the newest addition to her family-- Angad.

1/28/2011
Congratulations to Eve for being the first winner of "figure of the month"!

1/26/2011
Congratulations to Dr. Wang! He received a grant from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)/DoD in the amount of $45,327.00 for his project entitled "Production of Tobacco Mosaic Virus to Support the Research Projects at NRL".
News before 2011
Welcome Sheng Feng to join our group! (12/28/2010)

Welcome Dr. Xinrui Duan to join our group! (9/1/2010)

Congratulations to Dr. Wang! He received a grant from the University of Connecticut/DOE in the amount of $40,427.00 for his project entitled "Engineering Multicatalytic Enzyme Assemblies for Efficient Biomass Conversion to Fuels." (10/28/2010)

Welcome Amie, Nick to join our group! (07/2010)

Welcome Dr. Zan to join our group! (4/30/2010)

Welcome Matsepo to join our group! (2/2010)

Congratuations to Dr. Wang! He is one of the 17 individuals selected who has been recognized by the University Office of Research as a "Rising Star" at the USC.

Congratulations to Lilly for being selected into the 2010 EAPSI Program for China!

Congratulations to Quyen and Jeremy for receiving Merck Index Award and Hypercube Scholar Award!!!

Congratulations to Tao Li for receiving the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad 2009.

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Lee! He has successfully defended his dissertation.

Congratulations to Quyen for the Magellan Scholars Fellowship Award!!!

Congratulations to Christian for her First Place Senior Division in Biological Sciences, Second Place Senior Division Grand Award, Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Ability and Creativity in In Vitro Biology, and ISEF Official Observer Grand Award

Congratulations to Kai and Giang!! Their paper was amongst the top ten accessed on the web from the online version of Analyst.

Congratulation to Dr. Wang: he received the American Competitiveness Fellow (ACF) award from the NSF Division of Materials Research (DMR) with the amount of $370,000.

Congratulation to Lilly: she got "South East Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professorate (SEAGEP) Award.

Congratulation to Dr. Wang: he received a grant from the US Army RDECOM/DOD in the amount of $332,262.00 for his project entitled, "Bio Templated Synthesis of Composite Nano "Yin Yang"-Rod.

Congratulation to Laying: she has been chosen as the recipient of the 2009 Microscopy Society of America Presidential Award.

Congratulation to Dr. Wang: he got the "South Carolina Governor's Young Scientist Award, 2009".

Congratulation to Tao: two papers were published and accepted by "Chemistry of Materials" and "Chemical Communication".

Congratulation to Giang: she received the "Victor Laurie Senior Year Scholarship" and "Magellan Scholars Fellowship Award ".

Congratulation to Dr. Wang: he was named "Robert L. Sumwalt Professor of Chemistry".
Congratulation to Xinnan: he will take a faculty position in North Dakota State University.

Congratulation to Jianhua and Andrew: their paper published on Chem. Commun. was reported and highlighted by "Chemical Biololgy".

Congratulation to Siqi: two papers were accepted and in print by "Biomacromolecules" and "J. Diabetes Sci. Tech."

Congratulation to Tao: his research work "Raspberry-Like Core-Shell Biocomposite from Heirarchical Assembly of Bionanoparticles and Polymer" was highlighted by MRS website.

Congratulations to Dr. Wang: he got the CAPA Distinguished Junior Faculty Award and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2008.

Congratulations to Tao: his paper was accepted by Small.

Congratulations to Gagan: her paper was accepted by Biomaterials.

Congratulations to Dr. Wang: he got the CAPA Distinguished Junior Faculty Award, 2008.

Congratulations to Dr. Wang for "Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award" 2008.

Congratulations to Dr. Qian Wang: he was selected as an "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow".

Congratulations to Dr. Wang for his NSF career awards.

Welcome two visiting Prof.: Chunlian Xu and Jianhua Rong join our group.

Congratulations to Tao: he won the third poster position prize in "Symposium of Frontiers of Nanotechnology & Biotechnology"

Congratulations to Mike and Gagan: their paper was selected as cover story in ChemBioChem

Congratulations to Fang: her paper was accepted by Tetra. Lett.

Welcome Eve (Nisaraporn Suthiwangcharoen) join our group.

Congratulations to Zhongwei and Andrew, their paper was accepted by Nano. Lett. (Oct. 30, 2007)

Welcome two new graduate students are joining our group this Fall: Sharmistha Saha and Elisabeth Balizan and two undergraduate students: Craig Thompson and Erin Davis (Oct. 27, 2007)

Congratulations to Mike and Gagan: their paper was just accepted by ChembioChem (Oct. 20, 2007)

Dr. C. Chittaboina and F. Xie s paper has recently been recognized in the "Top-50 most cited articles" as published in Tetrahedron Letters 2004-2007 (July 15, 2007)

The Wang group would like to welcome its newest graduate student-Laying Wu. (July 15, 2007)

Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Barnhill! She has successfully defended her dissertation. (April 12, 2007)

Congratulations to Hannah. Her paper was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Mike and Zhongwei s papers were accepted by Langmuir and Nanobiotechnology.

Congratulations to Hannah! Her paper was accepted by Bioconjugation.

Congratulations to Andrew and Siqi! They have been named recipients of Cancer Research Travel Award and Durig Graduate Student Travel Award.

Dr. Zeng's work on the bioconjuation of ferritin was published on line by Chem. Commun.

The Wang group would like to welcome its newest graduate students-Jerry Oxsher and Saswat Kabi Satpathy.
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