- December 2011: Dr. Cheung hosted a science field trip for 68 4th graders, 4 teachers, and 9 chaperons from the Mary Marek Elementary school from the Alvin ISD.
- November 2011: Dr. Cheung was featured in the Newsletter of the Biophysical Journal.http://www.biophysics.org/Publications/Newsletter/PastIssues/November2011/BiophysicistinProfile/tabid/3711/Default.aspx
- November 2011: Sophomore physics major, Earl Pike, joined the group. Welcome!
- November 2011: Dr. Cheung and the STEP program designed the experiments of "Circuits and Electricity" for 20 science teachers from the HISD elementary schools.
- October 2011: Dr Cheung was invited to give a talk at the Southwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference.
- September 2011: Dr. Cheung receives an R01 award of $1.64 million from the NIH in collaboration with Profs. Neal Waxham and Yin Liu from the Texas Medical Center.
- September 2011: "Part II. Comparison of Chemical and Thermal Protein Denaturation by Combination of Computational and Experimental Approaches" was accepted to the Journal of Chemical Physics. Qian is the first author. Congratulations!
- September 2011: "Part I. Folding Dynamics of Trp-cage in the Presence of Chemical Interference and Macromolecular Crowding" is accepted to the Journal of Chemical Physics. Antonios is the first author. Congratulations!
- September 2011: Dr. Cheung has received $4000 from the NSF (PHY) to support the travel of speakers of the Biopolymers in vivo Subgroup Symposium and SRAA in the BPS annual meeting in San Diego, 2012.
- September 2011: Dr. Cheung and the STEP program designed the experiments of "Force and Motion" for 22 science teachers from the HISD elementary schools.
- August 2011: Dr. Cheung gave an invited talk at the National Taiwan University.
- August 2011: Dr. Cheung gave an invited talk at the 7th joint international conference of Chinese Physicist Worldwide in Taiwan.
- August 2011: Ricardo and Christina joined Cheung group. Welcome!
- June 2011: Gabriela joined Dr. Cheung's group. Welcome!
- May 2011: "The effect of macromolecular crowding, ionic strength and calcium binding on calmodulin dynamics", was accepted to PLoS Computational Biology (2011). Qian is the first author! Congratulations!
- May 2011: Pengzhi, Keshav and Fabio joined Dr. Cheung's group. Welcome!
- May 2011: Undergraduate researcher Sana Mateen received a PURS award!
- May 2011: Dr. Cheung gave an invited talk at the Drexel University.
- Apr 2011: Dr. Cheung gave an invited talk at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at UCSD
- Apr 2011: Dr. Cheung visited Wesley Elementary school and reached out to 40 5th graders in a science class..
- Apr 2011: Dr. Cheung gave an invited talk at the Physical Chemistry Seminar at TTU.
- Mar 2011: Dr. Cheung gave an invited talk at the Texas Folders Meeting, 2011.
- Mar 2011: Antonios defended his Ph.D. dissertation!
- Mar 2011: Dr. Cheung gave an invited talk at the Symposium of "Macromolecular Crowding Effect in Cytoplasm" at the APS March Meeting.
- Mar 2011: Biopolymers in vivo Subgroup of the Biophysical Society has been created! Dr. Cheung was elected as Chair.
- Feb 11, 18, 25, March 25th: Dr. Cheung offered four half-day workshop of High Performance Computing for Molecular Biology for 6 HCC scholars sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and 15 UH undergraduate students majored in engineering and physics [click].
- Feb 2011: Dr. Cheung received an NSF grant to support the travel expenses of the speakers and students for the Inaugural Symposium of Biopolymer Biophysics in vivo at the Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
- Jan 2011: Guoxiong was chosen to be a HAMBP (Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Program) fellow of 2011. Congratulations!
- Dec 2010: Dr. Cheung and her research group are featured in the Chinese Newspaper "World Journal" Dec 4th, 2010 issue [link].
- Dec 2010: Three of Dr. Cheung's papers (Antonios' PGK in PNAS2010, Qian's Cytochrome C in Biochemistry 2010, and Dirar's VlsE in PNAS 2008) were featured in the Cover Story "Tight Quarters" of the Chemical & Engineering News, Nov 29th, 2010 issue! [link]
- Dec 2010: Dr. Cheung and her research group are featured in the Chinese Newspaper "World Journal" Dec 4th, 2010 issue [link].
- Dec 2010: Dr. Cheung completed three 3-hour sectioned courses of "Energy and Matter" to 20 science teachers from the HISD elementary schools, in collaboration with the STEP program from the Department of Education at UH.
- Nov 2010: Research in our group was featured in the UH press release [link] and a local news paper "Lake Houston Observer" [link].