BIOsem group photos
2023
February 2023 - BIOsem group (l-r): Tyler Bechard, Navit Isaac, Dominic Grinnell, Oluwatosin Popoola, Jehad Abdelnabi, Aqsa Khan, Dr. Swapnil Tiwari, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Nishi Gondhiya, Maryam Awan, Emily DeVoe, Reem Khan, Halyna Smutok, Gloria Popoola, Dr. Daniel Andreescu, Mohamed Hassan, Nafees Iqbal, Abd-ur Rehman, Aaditya Deshpande, Dr. Zihni Onur Uygun.
Feb 14, 2023 - STARTScience@Clarkson Symposium (15 High Schools from Upstate NY, and ~ 150 participants)
Aaditya thesis defense: February 15
Congratulation Dr. Deshpande !
BIOsem group supporting Aaditya on his thesis defense. Good job Aaditya
March 8 - Happy International Women day!
March 12 - 1st Annual meeting "A Conversation on Advances in Water Science and Technology", Syracuse, NY
March 21 - Dinner with my former graduate students: Malli (PhD '12), Edy (PhD '19) and Aaditya (PhD '23) at PITTCON in Philly
April 8 - 13th Annual ACS-NNY Research Symposium, CU
April 14 - Spring Research and Projects Showcase (RAPS)
June ECS Meeting, Boston (Session dedicated to Prof Zuman)
April 15 The group's awardees at Clarkson Recognition day
(l-r): Mohamed, Ethan and Dominic
Apr 15 - Ivy -2nd place in Health Sci. poster competition at CSTEP meeting, Lake George
Commencement day: May 11 - The BIOsem group celebrates, the newest PhDs of the group: Abraham and Aaditya
May 11 - BIOsem group picture
May 12 - The traditional BIOsem group picnic at the end of the academic year
May 30 - CAMP meeting, Corning, NY
June 2 Mohamed Ph.D defense. Congratulation Dr. Hassan!
June 3 - Group hiking to Mt. Arab
Thanksgiving group dinner
2022
June 2022 - BIOsem group (l-r): Oluwatosin Popoola, Aaditya Deshpande, Nafees Iqbal, Aqsa Khan, Abd-ur Rehman, Joan Nyakaana - Blair, Sidney Jarvis, Tyler Bechard, Jehad Abdelnabi, Ethan Locke, Reem Khan, Emily DeVoe, Ivy Dong, Mohamed Hassan, and Dr. Silvana Andreescu
ACS - Northern New York Local Section, Undergraduate and Graduate Chemistry and Biology Research Symposium, SUNY Potsdam, April 1
Mohamed Hassan(G) and Rachel Harder (UG) - middle, are the Grand Prize Award Winner of the President's Challenge Competition - University Recognition Day, April 23
Mohamed (Phalanx Commendable Leadership Award), Daniel (Prof. Katz group - Outstanding Teaching Award) and Reem (Phalanx Commendable Leadership and Service Awards) - University Recognition Day, April 23
Commencement day: May 12 - Family, friends and BIOsem group mates together to celebrate Fatima's achievement, the newest PhD of the group
May 23 - Attending the CAMP annual meeting, Clayton, NY
June - Group picture, Clarkson Student Center
July - Norwood Beach picnic
Abraham Ph.D defense - Committee: Profs: Devon Shipp, Philip Yuya, Xiaocun Lu, Shantanu Sur, and Silvana Andreescu. Congratulation Dr. Finny !
August - ACS Fall meeting, Chicago, IL
August - Group dinner, at the ACS Fall meeting, Chicago
August - With Ethan and Ivy at RAPS conference - CU
November - The SNO Conference, Austin , TX
December - Santa is coming to lab!
2021
January 2021 (l-r): Abraham Finny, Aaditya Deshpande, Abd-ur Rehman, Mohamed Hassan, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Reem Khan, Aqsa Khan, Oluwatosin Popoola, Fatima Mustafa
Silvana won the Jake's restaurant 2020 Holyday Prize (a dinner up to 8 persons) and the group shared the prize (February)
June - Group hiking - Silver Lake trail (Adirondacks)
Summer Undergraduate Students (l-r):
Tyler Bechard, Maximilian Card, Jafar Sannie, Kadija Legagneur, Alexis Alexander.
Fatima Ph.D defense - Committee: Profs: Evgeny Katz, Susan Powers, Ka Ho Leung, Silvana Andreescu, Ryan Brown. Congratulation Dr. Mustafa !
July 16- Group celebrates Fatima PhD defense.
November 15 - Students from BIOsem group at the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), Plainsboro, NJ
2021 The wedding's year in the lab: May 22: Sana and Abd ur (left), June 4: Fatima and Al (middle), December 29: Tosin and Gloria (right)
Happy and long life for all of you!
2020
January 2020 (l-r): Austin Marshall, Aaditya Deshpande, Abd-ur Rehman, Abraham Finny, Kevin Kirk, Farideh Narouei, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Reem Khan, Fatima Mustafa, Megan Carhart, (missing Mohamed Hassan)
March - The COVID-19 pandemic strikes, and all Clarkson activities were moved remotely till ...
... September, when the group lab activity slowly resumed, and the teaching was adapted (photo below)
April 7 - Kevin Ph.D defense (virtual), Committee: Profs: Evgeny Katz, Devon Shipp, Ryan Brown, Sumona Mondal, and Silvana Andreescu, Congratulation Dr. Kirk !
Aug. 14 - Farideh Ph.D defense (virtual), Committee: Profs: Silvana Andreescu, Ryan Brown, Devon Shipp, Evgeny Katz, Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy, Congratulation Dr. Narouei!
June The Student Chapter of Clarkson University’s Electrochemical Society (CU-ECS) has been named a 2020 Chapter of Excellence recipient by the ECS Board of Directors (link1, link2).
Congratulations to all members (photo left) !
Starting with August 2020, Mohamed Hassan is the new President of CU-ECS student chapter.
Good luck Mohamed !
July 4 - Independence Day group picnic in pandemic year, less than 15 people, outside and ......
social distancing.
2019
April 2019 - Back (l-r): Aaditya Deshpande, Dr. Tulashi Luitel, Cindy Jiang, Megan Carhart
Front (l-r): Ali Othman, Wajdan Jamali, Brenna Kokosenski, Farideh Narouei, Abraham Finny, Kevin Kirk, Mohamed Hassan, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Jeremy Secora, Eduard Dumitrescu, Fatima Mustafa, and Austin Marshall
March 2 - Students from BIOsem group attend the 10th Annual ACS Northern New York Research Symposium at SUNY Plattsburgh
... presenting few posters,
.... and winning the best oral presentation by Megan
Congratulation Megan!
March 26 - Silvana presents the project: "Advanced materials design for preventing water eutrophication", at the Clarkson Ignite Research Fellowship Competition
... the BIOsem group supported it,
... and the committee awarded it.
Congratulations to all !
April 13 - Awards day (Fatima - Phalanx leadership and service awards, Megan - Best oral presentation at RAPS and Edy - The outstanding graduate student).
March - 2019 President Challenge Competition. Abraham and Aswin (Chem. Eng.) presenting their ChemoSense prototipe to Prof. Anthony Collins, the President of CU, and the prize (right)
April 10 - Ali Ph.D defense
Congratulation Dr. Othman !
April 19 - Eduard Ph.D defense
Congratulation Dr. Dumitrescu !
May 13 - Visit to BNL as part of the new advance course CM587 (Brookhaven Advanced Synchrotron lecture) facilitated by Dr. Silvana Andreescu
April 13 - BIOsem group at the Spring Research and Project Showcase (RAPS), CU
May 21 - BIOsem group at the 32nd Annual CAMP Technical Meeting, Syracuse, NY
The students from BIOsem group initiated the Clarkson University ECS student chapter formation (link) as part of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) organization
The CU-ECS student chapter table
June 29 - Group picnic, Norwood beach
November 17-19 - The 7th National Academy of Science (NAS) - Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Symposium, Cairo, Egypt (including a visit to the pyramids)
Right Photo - Visiting the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities with Dr. Rabeay Hassan (former Lab visitor) and active collaborator with our group.
Thank you Rabeay for a wonderful visit!
December 11 - The 7th International Symposium on Biomedical Materials, Lahore, Pakistan
Visiting Badshahi Mosque with Prof. Akhtar Hayat (former Research Associate of the Lab), and active collaborator with our group, now professor at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
... a late dinner with Prof. Hayat's research group.
Thank you Akhtar !
2018
Spring 2018 (l-r): Fatima Mustafa, Lily Norton, Ali Othman, Farideh Narouei, Eduard Dumitrescu, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Peter Vargo, Kevin Kirk, and Abraham Finny
Summer 2018 (l-r): Marissa, Fatima, Mohamed (new graduate student), Crystal, Eduard, Tulashi (new postdoc), Morgan, Silvana, Ali, Megan, Farideh, Kevin, Chelsea, and Abraham
February - Students from BIOsem group attending the PITTCON conference, Orlando, FL
April 14 - The BIOsem group attending the 2nd annual spring research and project showcase (RAPS) at CU
May 18 - The BIOsem table at the 31st Annual CAMP meeting and the people presenting it
June 15 - Fatima, Marissa, Chelsea, Abraham and Megan attending the 8th ECS student chapter symposium, UQAM - Montreal, Canada
December - Holiday season
2017
April 2017 (l-r): Lily Norton, Kevin Kirk, Peter Vargo, Ali Othman, Eduard Dumitrescu, Zackary Venne, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Fatima Mustafa, Xinyi Zou, Xiaobo Liu, and Desmond Horowitz
Ana Karimi thesis defense: January 13, 2017
Congratulation Dr. Karimi !
Xiaobo Liu thesis defense: April 12, 2017
Congratulation Dr. Liu !
April 24 - The R&D Student Competition project (2nd Place), NYS Pollution Prevention Institute, University at Buffalo
Commencement day: May 10 - The celebration day for the newest group Ph.Ds: Gonca and Xiaobo
May - BIOsem Group lunch
August 24 - Summer picnic
August 25 (l-r) - My friends Hussein Kanso and former groupmates Carole Calas-Blanchard and Thierry Noguer from Univeriste de Perpignan visiting Clarkson
... and Whiteface Mountain (Adirondacks) before heading to the 68th Annual International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) Symposium, Aug 27 - Sept 1, 2017, Providence, RI, US
August 31 - Kevin Kirk: “Best Poster Prize”, International Society of Electrochemistry, the 68th Annual International Society of Electrochemistry Symposium, 27 Aug - 1 Sep 2017, Providence, RI, US
2016
April 2016 (l-r): Eduard Dumitrescu, Ali Othman, Maya Duncan-White, Daniel Austin, Kevin Kirk, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Kyle Messier, Ryan Rauhut, Jessica Cunningham, Anahita Karimi, Gonca Bulbul, and Xiaobo Liu
Dinusha and Silvana
CAMP Annual Meeting, Canandaigua, May, 2016
The 90th Petr Zuman Birthday Anniversary Symposium (Clarkson Distinguished Professor and World-renowned Electrochemist) , Lake Placid, June 30, 2016
Group - Spring 2016
Gonca Bulbul thesis defense: September 26, 2016
Congratulation Dr. Bulbul !
BIOsem group supporting Gonca on her thesis defense. Good job Gonca.
2015
September 2015 (l-r): Jessica Cunningham, Anahita Karimi, Dr. Dinusha Karunaratne, Kristen Bear, Kyle Messier, Gonca Bulbul, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Dr. Akhtar Hayat, Xiaobo Liu, Ryan Rauhut, Ali Othman, Eduard Dumitrescu, and Kevin Kirk
March - BIOsem group at PITTCON, New Orleans
March - BIOsem group at PITTCON, New Orleans
March - New Orleans, lunch in jazz environment
March - PITTCON, checking presentations time
Group dinner - downtown New Orleans
and some free time
April - Ali (new grad student) and Ramiz (few weeks before his graduation)
With Prof. Alan Rossner, BIOsem group collaborator -Institute for a Sustainable Environment
Thanksgiving group dinner
2014
March 2014 - Back (l-r): Dr. Naimish Sardesai, Gonca Bulbul, Erica Sharpe, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Dr. Mouna Marrakchi, Ramiz Alkasir, Front (l-r): Thalia Frasco, Nora Houlihan, Jessica Cunningham, Xiaobo Liu, Emrah Ozel
October 2014 - Jessica Cunningham, Ai Lian Lin, Ramiz Alkasir, Ali Othman, Gonca Bulbul, Nora Houlihan, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Kyle Messier, Anahita Karimi, Xiaobo Liu, and Eduard Dumitrescu
April 7 - Emrah Ozel thesis defense
Congratulation Dr. Ozel !
April 11 - Erica Sharpe thesis defense
Congratulation Dr. Sharpe !
April 13 - A small party for the newest Ph.Ds.
God job Erica and Emrah !
with some fun outside
... and inside
May 10 - Commencement day Celebration day for Erica and Emrah
November - with Prof. Ada Yonath a chemistry Nobel Laureate during her visit at Clarkson
Thanksgiving
2013
August 2013 - Back (l-r): Dr. Naimish Sardesai, Dr. Akhtar Hayat, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Emrah Ozel, Jessica Cunningham, Ramiz Alkasir, Front (l-r): Erica Sharpe, Lauren Smales, Thalia Frasco, Xiaobo Liu
Friday afternoon group talk
Research and sweets
Happy birthday Silvana!
2012
eJune 2012 - Amanda Marsh, Kyla Ray, Emrah Ozel, Ramiz Alkasir, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Malli Ganesana, Erica Sharpe, Dilhani Jayathilake, Kelsey Casale
Thanksgiving
2011
February 2011 - Ramiz Alkasir, Michael Ball, Anastasia Scangas, Zachary Marchese, Emrah Ozel, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Malli Ganesana, Erica Sharpe, and George Apau
2010
September 2010 -Erica Sharpe, Ramiz Alkasir, Dr. Mayna Ornatska, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Michael Ball, Anastasia Scangas, Zachary Marchese, Malli Ganesana, and Emrah Ozel
February - Poster presentation (Jessica Carothers) at REU Symposium
November - group dinner
2009
March 2009 (l-r): John Njagi, Brian Frederick, Cristina Ispas, Malli Ganesana, Matt Ravalli, Maryna Ornatska, Zachary Marchese, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Michael Ball, and Ramiz Alkasir
Summer - BIOsem group & friends picnic in Higley State Park (Adirondacks)
Ramiz and Matt in a canoe trip
Cristina, Ramiz and John
August - BIOsem group attending the ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC.
August - Malli and Ramiz presenting the poster at the ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC.
... and visiting the Botanical Garden
August 17 - Group dinner, Washington, DC
November- Cristina, Anja, Megan and Jim
Group lunch
2008
Summer 2008 (l-r): Nikita Hungerford, Matt Ravalli, Malli Ganesana, Brian Frederick, Camille Warner, Dr. Silvana Andreescu, Caitlin Mincer, Lindsay Duplissa, John Njagi, (missing Cristina Ispas)
March - Group lunch
Spring - Visitors
May 10 - Graduation (l-r): Sarah Rowland, John Warner and Nikita Hungerford
2007
Fall 2007 (l-r): Malli Ganesana, Matt Ravalli, Brian Frederick, John Njagi, Dr. Silvana Andreescu (with Stephanie), Jonathan Samson, Cristina Ispas, Colleen Burnham, Megan Cates, Daniel VanDorn and John Warner
2005
Fall 2005 - Cassandra Moulton, John Warner, John Njagi and Dr. Silvana Andreescu
John installing the new PC
"Little" John is testing the potentiostat
and Cassandra is running UV-Vis experiments
The instruments are ready ...
... and the working area too
