September 30, 2011

The collaborative research on MEMS-based breath analysis by Drs. Andrea Dietrich and Masoud Agah along with their students, Heather Vereb and Bassam Alfeeli, has been featured by American Chemical Society. Read more.

August 24, 2011

A new addition to Dr. Agah’s family: Ayla Fatima Agah was born at 4:50pm on August 24th, 2011.

July 26, 2011

VT MEMS work on characterizing the biomechanics of ovarian cancer cells was the VT headline news and was featured on serveral news websites.

July 10, 2011

VT MEMS Lab will present five papers in the upcoming conference of IEEE Sensors, one of which (Paper-Based Capacitive Mass Sensor) is the result of a term project by three VT students in the course MEMS from Fabrication to Application taught by Dr. Agah.

July 09, 2011

Vaishnavi presented her first paper in Transducers 2011 in China.

May 31, 2011

Hesam Babahosseinin joined VT MEMS lab to work on cell biomechanics.

May 24, 2011

Dr. Agah received the Dean’s Faculty Fellow Award from the College of Engineering.

May 09, 2011

Dr. Agah’s work has been featured in LiveScince by NSF in the article: Small Devices Show Big Potential.

May 06, 2011

Alperen successfully defended his thesis focused on studying the biomechanics of ovarian cancer cells.

March 16, 2011

Mehdi wins 2010 Best Dissertation Award from Virginia Tech.

January 07, 2011

VT MEMS work on 3D cell culture microenvironments for studying breast cancer metastasis was featured on several news websites (newswise, electroiq, etc.) and was the headline news of Virginia Tech.

January 01, 2011

Hamza Shakeel and Mohammad Akbar joined the VT MEMS lab to work on microGC.

December 03, 2010

Mehdi Successfully defended his dissertation. Congrtulations to Dr. Nikkhah (first doctoral graduate of VT MEMS Lab in BioMEMS/NEMS Thrust).

November 27, 2010

Bassam and Shree presented their papers at 2010 IEEE Sensors conference in Big Island, Hawaii.

October 29, 2010

Amin won the WIlliam Present Award. Graduate School nominated Amin’s work for the Conference of Southern Graduate Schoolâ€™s Masterâ€™s Thesis Award for Innovative Application of Technology.

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