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Student Fellowships and Awards

2022

  • Undergraduate Researchers: Youssef Abdellatif, Christina Aridi, and Paula Phan received Fulton FURI Awards, ASU, Spring 2022.
  • Paula Phan received an NSF funded REU (Research Experience for Undergrads) at the University of Texas at Dallas, Summer 2022.
  • Christina Aridi received the Katie Conrad Memorial Award, Spring 2022.
  • Benjamin Ambrose awarded the Killiam Fellowship, Fall 2022.

2021

  • Christopher Miranda received the Katie Conrad Memorial Award, Spring 2021.
  • Jarrett Eshima received the Outstanding SBHSE Graduate Research Assistant Award, Spring 2021.
  • Christina Aridi received the Outstanding SBHSE Undergraduate Research Assistant Award, Spring 2021.

2020

  • Jarrett Eshima received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award, Spring 2020.
  • Madeleine Howell received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award, Spring 2020.
  • Jarrett Eshima’s work on Predicting Diurnal Changes in Cortisol was selected for an oral presentation at the Arizona ABRC-Flinn Research conference, Phoenix, AZ, Spring 2020.
  • Madeleine Howell received the Dean’s Medal for the School of Molecular Sciences, Spring 2020.
  • Esther Sim received the Outstanding SBHSE Senior Award, Spring 2020.
  • Esther Sim received the Outstanding SBHSE Undergraduate Teaching Award, Spring 2020.
  • Matthew Chrest received the Fulton MORE Award, Spring 2020.

2019

  • Madeleine Howell awarded the Goldwater Scholarship, Spring 2019.
  • Christopher Miranda awarded the Dean’s Dissertation Award, Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU, Fall 2019.
  • Matthew Chrest received Fulton MORE Award, Fall 2019.
  • Justin Mieth received Fulton MORE Award, Spring 2019.

2018

  • Joel Lusk’s work on photoacoustic microscopy for cell-type detection, developed in the Smith Lab, was selected for an oral presentation at the national BMES conference, Atlanta, GA, Fall 2018.
  • Christopher Miranda’s manuscript titled “Photoacoustic Micropipettes” was selected as a Featured Article by Applied Physics Letters. 113.26 (2018): 264103.
  • Christopher Miranda’s work on photoacoustic micropipettes, developed in the Smith Lab, was selected for an oral presentation at the national BMES conference, Atlanta, GA, Fall 2018.
  • Joel Lusk’s work on photoacoustic flow cytometry, developed in the Smith Lab, was selected for an oral presentation at the national BMES conference, Atlanta, GA, Fall 2018.
  • Jarrett Eshima received an NSF funded REU (Research Experience for Undergrads) at Georgia Tech, Summer 2018.
  • Madeleine Howell received an NSF funded REU (Research Experience for Undergrads) at the University of Michigan, Summer 2018.
  • Justin Mieth received Fulton MORE Award, Fall 2018.
  • Undergraduate Researchers: Madeleine Howell and Emily Hanzlick received Fulton FURI Award, ASU, Fall 2018.
  • Christopher Miranda received an SBHSE Merit Award Stipend, Summer 2018.
  • Undergraduate Researchers: Connor Phillips, Blake Browning and Matthew Chrest received Fulton FURI Award, ASU, Summer 2018.
  • Undergraduate Researchers: Madeleine Howell, Blake Browning and Matthew Chrest received Fulton FURI Award, ASU, Spring 2018.

2017

  • Christopher Miranda received the BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) Poster Award, given out at the National Conference to only 5 of 1,500 presenters, Fall 2017.
  • Christopher Miranda was awarded a competitive Fellowship for the NIH BRAIN Initiative Summer Course, titled “Models and Neurobiology”, Summer 2017.
  • Christopher Miranda received an SBHSE Merit Award Stipend for $1,095, Summer 2017.
  • Joel Lusk received an SBHSE Merit Award Stipend for $1,095, Summer 2017.
  • Stephanie Ong received an SBHSE Merit Award Stipend for $1,095, Summer 2017.
  • Undergraduate Researchers: Jarrett Eshima and Erin Switzer received Fulton FURI Award, ASU, Spring 2017.

2016

  • Undergraduate Researchers: Hannah Switzer, Jarrett Eshima, and Samantha Brenna received Fulton FURI Awards, ASU, Fall 2016.
  • Undergraduate Researchers: Hannah Switzer, Framarz Alam, and Samantha Brenna received Fulton FURI Awards, ASU, Spring 2016.

2015

  • Undergraduate Researcher: Christina Salas received Fulton FURI Award, ASU, Summer and Fall 2015.

 

 

Awards

2020 – National Science Foundation CAREER Award – Smith
2019 – Flinn Foundation Award – Smith
2019 – SBHSE Eric Guilbeau Outstanding Teaching Award – Smith
2019 – Deans Dissertation Award – Christopher Miranda
2019 – Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education – Madeleine Howell
2018 – Women & Philanthropy Foundation Award – Smith
2018 – Centennial Professorship Award – Smith
2018 – Arizona Biomedical Research Commission – New Investigator Award – Smith
2018 – NSF – Research Experience for Undergrads (REU) – Jarrett Eshima, Georgia Tech
2018 – NSF – Research Experience for Undergrads (REU) – Madeleine Howell
2017 – Arizona Biomedical Research Commission – New Investigator Award – Smith

Papers Published

2020 – Side-viewing Photoacoustic Waveguide Endoscopy
2020 – Ovarian Cancer Detection Using Photoacoustic Flow Cytometry
2019 – Review of clinical trials in intraoperative molecular imaging during cancer surgery
2019 – Monitoring changes in the healthy female metabolome across the menstrual cycle using GC× GC-TOFMS
2019 – Photoacoustic Flow System for the Detection of Ovarian Circulating Tumor Cells Utilizing Copper Sulfide Nanoparticles
2018 – Intrauterine photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging probe
2018 – Photoacoustic micropipette
2017 – Improving health-care delivery in low-resource settings with nanotechnology: Challenges in multiple dimensions

Conference Presentations

2020 – ABRC 5th Annual Symposium – Jarrett Eshima
2019 – Select Biosciences – Christopher Miranda
2019 – BMES – Joel Lusk
2018 – BMES- Joel Lusk
2017 – BMES – Christopher Miranda