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2024-2025

Congrats to Seth Kenkel for winning the Center for Quantitative Cell Biology Postdoctoral Fellowship!


November 10, 2023

Congrats to Dr. Lin Chen and Dr. Craig Richard for their successful PhD defenses!

September 6, 2023

Congrats to Dr. Pei-Hsuan Hsieh for her successful PhD defense!

May 25, 2023

Congrats to Dr. Yamuna Phal for her successful PhD defense!

April 3, 2023

Congrats to Dr. Kianoush Falahkheirkhah for his successful PhD defense!

July 18, 2022

Congrats to Dr. Anirudh Mittal for his successful PhD defense!

October 13, 2019

Dr. Rohit Bhargava is invited as a keynote speaker in SciX2019

October 11, 2018

Dr. Rohit Bhargava named as IST Coalition’s Researchers to Know 2018

August 6, 2018

Saumya Tiwari’s Defense and PostDoctoral Position

October 3, 2017

Matthew Gelber’s Defense

Congratulations to Matt Gelber for defending his PhD dissertation! We look forward to seeing where your doctorate takes you.

September 29, 2017

Bhargava Group Outing

The lab took an afternoon off to enjoy the great outdoors and connect with one another. There was grilling and volleyball and some very well-deserved relaxation.

July 19, 2017

Dr. Tomasz Wrobel’s New Job

Congratulations to Dr. Tomasz (Tomek) Wrobel who has joined the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences on a tenure-track position in Krakow, Poland. You will be missed in the lab and we wish you the best of luck on your new endeavors!

June 2, 2017

Congratulations Saumya! Saumya Tiwari has been named as one of 4 winners of the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Graduate Student Research Awards!

May 15, 2017

Congratulations to Shachi Mittal for winning runner-up in the innagural Tissue and Microenvironment (TiMe) Day Poster Competition!

April 19, 2017

Congratulations to Jim McGraw for being nominated as an Office Professional of the Year for The Secretariat! The competition was fierce, and although he wasn’t selected, it is an honor to recognize his hard work and dedication!

April 17, 2017

Congratulations to Shachi Mittal for being named a 2017 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow!

March 29, 2017

The BioE Department named Craig Richard 2017 GEM Associate Fellow. Congratulations, Craig!

December 15, 2016

Congratulations to Matt Gelber for being a finalist in the School of Chemical Science’s VizLab 2016 Science Imaging Challenge!!

August 2016

Seth Kenkel has been selected as a trainee for the new NIH-supported Tissue Microenvironment training program. Congratulations, Seth!

June 16, 2016

Beckman Insitute Postdoctoral Fellow Tomasz Wrobel featured for his research with chemical imaging for prostate cancer diagnostics.

May 2, 2016

Saumya Tiwari is selected as the Nadine Barrie Smith Memorial Fellowship recipient. Congratulations Saumya!

April 2015

Congratulations to Pierce Hadley for winning the University of Illinois Engineering Freshman of the Year Award, awarded at the Outstanding Contribution Award Banquet!

March 2015

Congratulations to Pierce Hadley, Mark Gryka, and Matt Gelber for winning the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Illinois-Indiana Section Outstanding Poster Award!

December 2014

Through “Cancer Scholars,” Bhargava Pilots Challenge-Inspired Education Model.