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Last Updated:
30 June 2008

 

  • May 2008 - Luyuan Zhang received the American Heart Association (AHA) Fellowship for the 2008-2010 academic years.
     
  • May 2008 - Ya-Ting Kao receives the Presidential Fellowship from the Ohio State Graduate School.
     
  • April 2008 - Weihong Qiu receives the Outstanding Student Research Achievement Award from the biophysics program.
     
  • April 2008 - Dr. Dongping Zhong receives a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
     
  • April 2008 - Dr. Dongping Zhong receives the Dr. Elizabeth L. Gross Award for faculty excellence from the Ohio State Biophysics Program.
     
  • March 2008 - Dr. Dongping Zhong receives a CAREER award from The National Science Foundation.
     
  • February 2008 - Dr. Dongping Zhong receives a Sloan Research Fellowship from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
     
  • January 2008 - Dr. Dongping Zhong appointed as the first holder of the Robert Smith Endowed Professorship in Physics.
     
  • November 2007 - Our recent research on the global mapping of hydration dynamics and water-protein interactions was featured in Research News, PNAS cover (titles) and Editors' choice in Science.
     
  • May 2007 - Weihong Qiu receives the Outstanding Student Research Achievement Award from the biophysics program.
     
  • May 2007 - Jeff Stevens receives the 2007 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of the American Physics Teaching Association.
     
  • April 2007 - Justin Link wins the 2007 Graduate Associate Teaching Award, one of 10 individuals from a pool of approximately 2,500 GTAs to receive the highest teaching award for graduate students. The award includes a plaque and $1500. He also won the 2006 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of the American Physics Teaching Association.
     
  • September 2006 - Our recent research on hydration dynamics and protein-water interactions was featured in Research News.
     
  • June 2006 - Our paper on HSA solvation dynamics was featured on the cover of J. Phys. Chem. B 110 (issue 21), 10540-10549.
     
  • May 2006 - Weihong Qiu received the American Heart Association (AHA) Fellowship for the 2006-2008 academic years.
     
  • January 2006 - Ya-Ting Kao received a travel award from the Biophysics society to present her research on DNA repair which will be held on February 19-23 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
     
  • November 2005 - Our work on real-time observation of DNA repair by photolyase was published in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102, 16128-16132.
     
  • October 2005 - Dr. Dongping Zhong wins Packard Fellowship from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
     
  • September 2005 - Our recent research on DNA repair by photolyase was featured in Research News and the Dispatch
     
  • September 2005 - Our work on real-time observation of DNA repair by photolyase was published online in PNAS
     
  • September 2005 - Oghaghare Okobiah received the graduate fellowship from the National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) for three years (2005-2008).
     
  • September 2005 - Our full paper on hydration dynamics in melittin folding and aggregation was published in J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 16901-16910.
     
  • July 2005 - Ya-Ting Kao won the Research Excellence Award in Femtochemistry VII, the most prestigious femtosecond conference which finished recently in Washington DC.
     
  • June 2005 - Justin Link and Jeff Stevens received the Hazel Brown Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
     
  • June 2005 - Chaitanya Saxena received the American Heart Association (AHA) Fellowship for the 2005-2006 academic year.
     
  • June 2005 - Our paper on photoreceptor cryptochrome was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 7984-7985.
     
  • February 2005 - Our second paper on DNA photolyase reduction was published in J. Phys. Chem. B 109 (issue 4), 1329-1333.
     
  • December 2004 - Former group member Dr. Wenyun Lu joined Princeton University as a senior scientist on proteomics.
     
  • November 2004 - Our paper on DNA photolyase reduction was featured on the cover of J. Phys. Chem. B 108 (issue 46), 18026-18033.
     
  • July 2004 - Our paper on supramolecular recognition was published in Chem. Phys. Letters 394, 415-422.
     
  • June 2004 - Chaitanya Saxena received the Hazel Brown Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
     
  • March 2004 - The first paper from Zhong's group was published in Chem. Phys. Letters 388, 120-126. The paper reported tryptophan solvation dynamics.