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 March 2013: Congratulations to Nishita Deka, a senior Electrical Engineering undergraduate student, who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
March 2013: The Armani Lab and KIYATEC have been awarded a Grainger Grant from NAE to pursue the integrated of 3D cell culture methods and real-time detection technology!
February 2013: Congratulations to Nishita Deka for winning the Undergrad Poster contest at the 3rd Annual EE Research Festival!
January 2013: Congratulations to Soheil Soltani for passing his PhD screening exam!
 November 2012: Congratulations to Audrey Harker, Simin Mehrabani, Kelvin Kuo and Ashley Maker for winning awards at the Annual Mork Family Student Symposium. Specifically, Audrey was awarded first place in the undergraduate poster competition, Simin and Kelvin tied for second in the graduate poster competition and Ashley won first place for her presentation! Simin, Kelvin and Ashley are all third year Chemical Engineering PhD students and Audrey is a senior Chemical Engineering undergraduate.
November 2012: Prof. Armani is invited to attend the Global Grand Challenges Summit!
October 2012: Congratulations to Victoria Sun, a 2nd year Chemical Engineering PhD student, who has been awarded the ARCS Scholarship in recognition of her academic achievements!
September 2012: Congratulations to Nishita Deka, a senior Electrical Engineering undergraduate student, who was awarded the Astronaut Scholarship in recognition of her academic achievements!
September 2012: Congratulations to Sara Brisbin who was awarded a WiSE Fall Research Fellowship!
August 2012: The Armani Lab welcomes new PhD students: Daniel Kim and Sam McBirney!
July 2012: Congratulations to Victoria Sun for passing her PhD screening exam!
July 2012:Congratulations to Ashley Maker for passing her PhD candidacy exam!
July 2012:Congratulations to Simin Mehrabani for passing her PhD candidacy exam!
July 2012: Prof. Armani is elected a Senior Member of SPIE.
 July 2012: Prof. Armani is invited to the 2012 NAE Frontiers in Engineering Symposium!
June 2012: Congratulations to Michele Lee for passing her PhD screening exam!
May 2012: Congratulations to Ce Shi for passing her PhD candidacy exam!
May 2012: Congratulations to Brian Rose for passing his MS thesis defense!
May 2012: Congratulations to Ashley Maker who was awarded the Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award in recognition of her excellence in mentoring undergraduate students!
May 2012: Congratulations to Hong Seok Choi who received the Best PhD Thesis Award from the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science department!
May 2012: Congratulations to all of the Armani Lab members who graduated! Hong Seok Choi received his PhD in Materials Science, Shehzad Ismail and Matt Reddick received their MS in Electrical Engineering, Brian Rose received his MS in Chemical Engineering, and Bradley Biggs received his BS in Chemical Engineering. Hong and Brian accepted positions at Intel, Matt accepted a position at Cercacor, Shehzad accepted a position at Cisco, and Bradley is starting graduate school at Northwestern.
May 2012: Congratulations to Audrey Harker and Nishita Deka who were awarded WiSE Summer Research Fellowships!
April 2012: Congratulations to Audrey Harker who was awarded a 2012 Provost’s Research Fellowship to perform research on integrated optical devices over the summer!
April 2012: Congratulations to Nishita Deka and Garrison Crouch who were awarded 2012 Rose Hills Summer Research Fellowships to develop integrated photonic devices and optical materials over the summer!
April 2012: Congratulations to Simin Mehrabani for receiving an Alfred E. Mann Doctoral Fellowship!
April 2012: Congratulations to Imran Cheema and Simin Mehrabani whose paper “Simultaneous measurement of quality factor and wavelength shift by phase shift microcavity ring down spectroscopy” was the top download from Optics Express on April 4!
March 2012: Congratulations to Maria Chistiakova for passing her candidacy exam!
Februrary 2012: Congratulations to Hong Seok Choi for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
January 2012: Congratulations to Hong Seok Choi, Dania Neiroukh and Heather Hunt, whose paper “Thermo-optic coefficient of polyisobutylene ultrathin films measured with integrated photonic devices” was highlighted by ACS Noteworthy Chemistry!
January 2012: Congratulations to Mark Harrison for passing his Electrical Engineering PhD screening exam!
January 2012: The Armani Lab welcomes new post-doc: Dr. Alper Nese!
November 2011: Congratulations to Nic Murillo who was awarded an REU from the NSF CIAN ERC to perform research on integrated optical devices over the summer!
October 2011: Congratulations to Bradley Biggs, Nishita Deka and Audrey Harker for winning first place in the Undergraduate Student Poster Contest at the Annual Mork Family Student Symposium. Bradley is currently a senior Chemical Engineering major, and Audrey and Nishita are juniors in Chemical Engineering and in Electrical Engineering , respectively.
October 2011: Congratulations to Hong-Seok Choi, whose research was highlighted in the focus article on Plastics Testing and Analysis in the Society of Plastics Engineers magazine, “Plastics Engineering”!
September 2011: Congratulations to Ashley Maker whose paper “Low loss silica on silicon integrated waveguides” was the top download from Optics Letters on September 20th!
 September 2011: Congratulations to Dania Neiroukh who accepted a position at Park Systems!
August 2011: Prof. Armani is elected a Senior Member of IEEE.
August 2011: The Armani Lab welcomes new PhD students: Michele Lee, Soheil Soltani and Victoria Sun, and new post-doc: Dr. Jason Gamba!
August 2011: Congratulations to Audrey Harker, Nishita Deka, and Christine Zimmerman for receiving Merit Research Awards!
 July 2011: Congratulations to Kelvin Kuo, Ashley Maker, and Simin Mehrabani for passing their Chemical Engineering PhD screening exams!
May 2011: Congratulations to Brian Rose, Chai Murthy and Dania Neiroukh, who graduated with Chemical Engineering BS degrees!
April 2011: Congratulations to Audrey Harker who was awarded a 2011 Provost’s Research Fellowship to perform research on integrated optical devices over the summer!
April 2011: Congratulations to Nishita Deka and Chaitanya Murthy who were awarded 2011 Rose Hills Summer Research Fellowships to develop integrated photonic devices and optical materials over the summer!
April 2011: Congratulations to Audrey Harker and Nishita Deka who were awarded 2011 WiSE research fellowships to perform research on integrated optical devices over the summer!
 April 2011: Congratulations to Mark Harrison who was awarded an National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship!
April 2011: Congratulations to Brian Rose for receiving an honorable mention for Most Innovative which was awarded by the Stevens Institute for Innovation in the USC Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work.
March 2011: Congratulations to Heather Hunt who accepted tenure-track Asst. Professor position at the University of Missouri in the Biological Engineering Department!
March 2011: Congratulations to Rasheeda Hawk who has been awarded an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship Award!
March 2011: Congratulations to Heather Hunt who has been awarded the WiSE Merit Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research!
March 2011: Congratulations to Daniel Guevara, Nic Murillo, and Bradley Biggs who have been awarded NSF REU Fellowships to perform summer research in the Armani Lab! All three are USC Chemical Engineering undergraduates.
February 2011: Prof. Armani is selected as a Topical Editor for Optics Letters.
January 2011: Congratulations to Shehzad Ismail who has been awarded a Viterbi Merit Research Award!
December 2010: Congratulations to Carol Soteropulos who received her BS in Biomedical Engineering!
November 2010: Congratulations to Xiaomin Zhang for passing her candidacy exam!
 November 2010: Prof. Armani receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama. This is the highest honor given by the US government on early career professionals (professors and members of other research communities) and is accompanied by additional funding to support  research in the Armani Lab. The White House press release and the USC press release.
November 2010: Congratulations to Carol Soteropulos for winning first place in the Undergraduate Student Poster Contest and to Ashley Maker for winning second place in the Graduate Student Poster Contest at the Annual Mork Family Student Symposium. Carol is currently a senior Biomedical Engineering major, graduating next month, and Ashley is a first year Chemical Engineering graduate student.
 October 2010: Congratulations to Maria Chistiakova for winning an Honorable Mention in the Optical Society of America’s After Image Contest. Her award-winning photo is shown to the right and is published in the November 2010 issue of Optics and Photonics News.
 September 2010: Prof. Armani receives the 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator’s Award. For the duration of its five year timeline, this research funding will support the research of one post-doctoral scholar and two graduate students.
August 2010: Congratulations to Garima Aggarwal for receiving a Merit Research Award which will support her fall research!
August 2010: The Armani Lab welcomes new PhD students: Mark Harrison, Matt Reddick, Ashley Maker, and Kelvin Kuo.
July 2010: Congratulations to Maria Chistiakova for passing her Chemical Engineering PhD screening exam!
June 2010: Photonic Microresonator Research and Applications (see cover) is released, with chapter by Armani Lab.
May 2010: Congratulations to Ce Shi for passing her Materials Science PhD screening exam!
 May 2010: Congratulations to Ashley Maker and Lindsay Freeman who received their Chemical Engineering BS degrees! Both are continuing onto PhD Programs in Chemical Engineering.
April 2010: Congratulations to Brian Rose for receiving a R ose Hills Foundation Summer 2010 Science and Engineering Fellowship to support his research!
April 2010: Prof. Armani received the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program Young Investigator Award.
April 2010: Prof. Armani is awarded the USC Mellon Award for undergraduate mentoring!
April 2010: Congratulations to Hong Seok Choi for passing his candidacy exam!
March 2010: The Armani group is been awarded a DURIP to purchase a desktop SEM for the lab!
March 2010: The Armani group is highlighted by the Viterbi Newsroom in a series of videos discussing our research.
February 2010: Congratulations to Ashley Maker for receiving an Annenberg Graduate Fellowship!
January 2010: Hong Seok Choi’s and Xiaomin Zhang’s Optics Letters article was highlighted in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.
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