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Spring 2023

• Zahra Panahi successfully defends her thesis

• Dr. Panahi started a new position as Director of Engineering at QSM Diagnostics

Fall 2022

Summer 2022

Spring 2022

• The SEEDS Lab Received an NSF RII Track 2 FEC EPSCoR Grant #2119237 titled, Advancing Manufacturing and Biotechnology through an On-Demand Sensor Platform: Investments in the Development of Engineering Principles and the Future Workforce

• Katherine Austin receives the DoD SMART Scholarship

Fall 2021

Summer 2021

Spring 2021

Fall 2020

Summer 2020

Spring 2020

• Emma Roberge selected as a semi-finalist for a SMART Scholarship

• Luciana Custer joins the SEEDS Lab  as co-Lab Manager

• TJ Evarts joins the SEEDS Lab 

• Katie Austin joins the SEEDS Lab

• Mariah Arral publishes a first author publication with post doctorate, Christian Tooley: M. Arral, C. Tooley, and J.M. Halpern. “Elucidating the Electrochemical Mechanism of NG-Hydroxy-L-arginine” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 167, (2020), 025501. doi: 10.1149/1945-7111/ab643a

• Tianyu Ren (graduate student) and Emma Roberge (undergraduate) publishes a co-first-author protocol paper with collaborators in UNH and University of New England: T. Ren*, E.J. Roberge*, J.R. Csoros, W.R. Seitz, E.R.M. Balog, and J.M. Halpern. “The Application of Voltage in Dynamic Light Scattering Particle Size Measurements” Journal of Visualized Experiments, 155, (2020), e60257. doi: 10.3791/60257 *These authors have contributed equally to this work

• Joelle LaFreniere and Emma Roberge, two undergraduates, publish a paper as co-first-authors in a special issue on Sensors Reviews: J. LaFreniere*, E. Roberge*, and J.M. Halpern§. “Polymer Reorientation in an Applied Electric Field for Sensor Applications” invited to Journal of Electrochemical Society, 167, (2020), 037556. doi: 10.1149/1945-7111/ab6cfe *These authors have contributed equally to this work

• TJ Evarts is selected for the Hood Achievement Prize

• Emma Roberge selected for the Parents Association Award

• TJ Evarts for successfully defending his Honors Thesis

• Mckenna Merrill for successfully defending her Honors Thesis

Fall 2019

• Stanley Feeney joins the SEEDS Lab

• Li Li accepts a job at DuPont 

• Charles Gasperoni wins a Hamel Research Presentation Grant

• Emma Roberge wins a Hamel Research Presentation Grant

• Marissa is featured on CEPS Spotlight

• Joelle LaFreniere wins a Hamel Research Presentation Grant

• Emily Ziino wins a Hamel Research Presentation Grant

• Marissa Morales wins a UNH Graduate School Travel Grant 

• Zahra Panai wins a UNH Graduate School Travel Grant

• Mckenna Merrill leads a team through UNH's I-Corps program

• Jeffrey Halpern delivers a Plenary Talk at the Sensors topical at American Institute of Chemical Engineers. 

• Jeffrey Halpern delivers an invited talk at the AIChE Process Development Symposium Europe 2020 on alternative teaching strategies on teaching Process Simulation in Senior Design courses

• Patent application submitted to the US patent office with collaborator Eva Rose M. Balog, “2-Dimentional Surfaces Capable of Monitoring Stimuli Responsive Behavior and Methods of use Thereof.” US Appl. No. 16/668,858 

• Marissa Morales publishes a first-author with collaborators at University of New England Featured on the back cover: M. Morales, W. Paiva, L. Marvin, E.R.M. Balog, and J.M. Halpern§. “Electrochemical Characterization of the Stimuli-Response of Surface-Immobilized Elastin-Like Polymers” Soft Matter, 15, (2019), 9640-9646. doi: 10.1039/C9SM01681C 

Summer 2019

• The SEEDS Lab just received UNH CoRE Funding for the Elastin Like Polymer project with Collaborators: Eva Rose M. Balog, Sherine Elsawa, and Derek Molliver 

• The SEEDS Lab files its first patent application to the US Patent Office

• Brittany Langevin joins the SEEDS Laboratory as an RETE summer student

• Elizabeth England joins the SEEDS Laboratory as an RETE summer student

• Priyanka Nadar joins the SEEDS Laboratory as a Summer Intern

• Joelle LaFreniere joins the SEEDS Laboratory

• Zahra Panahi passes her qualifier exam

• Emily Ziino accepts a Lab Manager position in the SEEDS Laboratory

• Patent application submitted to the US patent office with undergraduate co-inventor Mckenna Merrill “Reusable Electrochemical Sensors Capable of Cyclodextrin Interactions and Methods of Use Thereof.” US Appl. No. 16/435,121

Spring 2019

• Jeffrey Halpern featured as March 2019 Innovation of the Month

• Jeffrey Halpern wins an Educators Award from LEAP for Education

• Emma Roberge joins the SEEDS Laboratory

• Marissa Morales and Mckenna Merrill selected to attend the I-Corps Bio-Entrepreneurship Workshop

• Marissa is a co-author on a collaborative paper: Marvin, W. Paiva, N. Gill, M.A. Morales, J.M. Halpern, J. Vesenka, and E.R.M. Balog. “Flow imaging microscopy as a novel tool for high-throughput evaluation of elastin-like polymer coacervates.” PlosONE. (2019) 0216406 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216406 

Fall 2018

• Marissa Morales publishes a review article that is featured on the cover of Bioconjugate Chemistry: M.A. Morales and J.M. Halpern. “Guide to Selecting a Biorecognition Element for Biosensors.” Bioconjugate Chemistry. 29 (2018) 3231-3239. doi: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.8b00592

• Christian Tooley publishes a paper in Sensors with undergraduate co-authors, Sabrina Marnoto and Charles Gasperoni:  C.A. Tooley, C.H. Gasperoni, S. Marnoto, and J.M. Halpern. “Evaluation of Metal Oxide Surface Catalysts for Electrochemical Activation of Amino Acids.” Sensors. 18 (2018) 3144, doi: 10.3390/s18093144

• Christian Tooley accepts a job at Matrivax

• Li Li joins the SEEDS Laboratory

• Emily Ziino joins the SEEDS Laboratory

• Mckenna Merrill and Jeffrey Halpern submit a provisional patent on cyclodextrin mediated surfaces to detect hydrophobic molecules

• Jeffrey Halpern receives an International Young Faculty Travel Award Winner from the Physical and Analytical Chemistry Division to attend the Fall 2018 Electrochemical Society 234th / AiMES 2018 Joint Meeting 

• Jeffrey Halpern submits a provisional patent on Elastin-Like Polymer surfaces for use in sensors with collaborator Eva Rose M. Balog

• Mckenna Merrill wins 3rd Place Poster Award at the 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineering Annual Meeting. 

• Mckenna Merrill wins a Hamel Research Presentation Grant

• Charles Gasperoni wins a Hamel Research Presentation Grant

• Marissa Morales wins a UNH Graduate School Travel Grant 

• Zahra Panai wins a UNH Graduate School Travel Grant

• UNH receives a Major Research Investment Grant to acquire a new 700 MHz NMR, in which Jeffrey Halpern was co-PI

Summer 2018

• Zahra Panahi joins the SEEDS Laboratory

• Mariah Arral published her paper in ECST:  M. Arral and J.M. Halpern. “Electrochemical Detection of NG-Hydroxy-L-arginine.” Electrochemical Society Transactions. 85 (2018) 1163-1169, doi: 10.1149/08513.1163ecst

• Caroline Ladegard won 1st Place Poster Award at the Bioengineering Symposium 

Spring 2018

• Christian Tooley joins the SEEDS Laboratory

• Mariah Arral receives a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation and accepts graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University

• Alexis Mack receives a student chapter travel award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

• Alexis Mack receives a travel award from the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research at University of New Hampshire

• Marissa Morales receives an INTERN supplemental award from the National Science Foundation to do a 14 week internship with Abbott Laboratories 

• Charles Gasperoni joins the SEEDS Laboratory 

• Charles Gasperoni is awarded a Research Experience Apprenticeship Program Fellowship for the Summer of 2018

• Caroline Ladegard accepts graduate school at Lehigh University 

• Mckenna Merrill is awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the Summer of 2018

Summer 2017

• John Prud'homme accepted a Research Experience for Undergraduate Fellowship to work at the University of Southern Florida 

• Micaela Schones awarded First Place poster award at the Bioengineering Symposium

Spring 2017

• Mckenna Merrill awarded a Research Experience Apprenticeship Program Fellowship

• Serge Boucher and Caroline Ladegard awarded a collaborative Summer Undergraduate Research Program Fellowship

• Mariah Arral accepted a Research Experience for Undergraduate Fellowship to work at Vanderbilt during the Summer

• Mariah Arral received  an Honors Thesis Grant Spring 2017

• Alexis Mack and Sabrina Marnoto awarded a Research Experience for Undergraduate Fellowship as a supplement to my current NSF EAGER award

• Garrett Thompson awarded a Fulbright UK-Sheffield Scholarship to obtain an MPH

• Sabrina Marnoto awarded Honorable Mentioned poster award the Undergraduate Research Conference

• John Prud'homme joined the SEEDS laboratory 

Fall 2016

• Marissa Morales joined the SEEDS group

• Garrett Thompson graduates with an Honors B.S. in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology

• Garrett Thompson awarded First Place in the Undergraduate Poster Session at the annual AIChE meeting in San Francisco 

• Mariah Arral awarded First Place in the Undergraduate Poster Session at the annual AIChE meeting in San Francisco 

• Halpern presents an invited talk at the American Chemical Society Meeting in Philadelphia 

Summer 2016

• Garrett Thompson won the Analytical Methods Poster Prize at Electrochem 2016 (typically reserved for senior graduate students and post doctorates)

• The Halpern group is renamed the SEEDS (Surface Enhanced Electrochemical Diagnostic Sensors) Lab

• Halpern is awarded a Faculty Development Grant

  • Halpern travels to Metabolomics 2016 in Ireland

  • Halpern attends the Chemical Industry Awards Annual Dinner in England

  • Halpern gives an invited talk at University of Chester, UK and visits Garrett 

  • Halpern visits Beatson Institute for Cancer Research 

  • Halpern visits 3T-Analytik in Germany and gives an invited talk

  • Halpern visits Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and gives an invited talk 

Spring 2016

• Micaela Schones and Mariah Arral awarded collaborative Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

• Sabrina Marnoto awarded a Research Experience Apprenticeship Program

• Garrett Thompson completes his Honor's thesis titled, "Electrochemical Detection of Antioxidants"

• Connor D'Amours and Tucker Owens won First place poster at the Undergraduate Research Conference for their senior thesis eCLAM (electrochemical laboratory analyzation module). 

• Mariah Arral, Alexis Mack, and Garrett Thompson present at the Undergraduate Research Conference

• Sabrina Marnoto joined the Halpern group

• Nicholas Sweeney Cook graduates with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering 

Fall 2015

• Alexis Mack awarded an Undergraduate Research Award

• Garrett Thompson awarded an International Research Opportunity in Chester, England

• Garrett Thompson, Mariah Arral, and Kate Verfaillie presented at the 2015 UNH Bio-Engineering symposium

• Micaela Schones joined the Halpern group

• Mariah Arral was invited to talk at the TECH 400: Introduction to CEPS Programs class on 12/2/15

Summer 2015

• Kathryn Verfaillie joined the Halpern group as a Research Experience for Teachers in Engineering

• Kathryn Verfaillie presented at the summer NSF EPSCoR conference at UNH

• Mariah Arral received a Research Experience and Apprenticeship Program Fellowship

• Garrett Thompson received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

• Alexis Mack, Garrett Thompson, Mariah Arral, and Kathryn Verfaillie presented summer research to collaborator, Eva Balog, at the University of New England

Spring 2015

• Alexis Mack joined the Halpern group

• Mariah Arral joined the Halpern group

• Nicholas Sweeney Cook awarded an Undergraduate Research Award

Fall 2014

• Garrett Thompson joined the Halpern group

• Nicholas Sweeney Cook joined the Halpern group