Recent News
11/2011
Trisha Vickrey is awarded a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship to intern in public policy at the National Academy of Science.  This is an extremely competitive national fellowship.  Congratulations, Trisha!
11/2011
Amanda Prior, first year chemistry grad student, officially joins the Venton lab.
11/2011
Ashley Ross, Ning Xiao, and Dr. Venton venture to Washington DC to present posters at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting.
11/2011
Dr. Venton gives a seminar to the chemistry department at Muhlenberg University.
10/2011
Trisha Vickrey's D2 autoreceptor paper is accepted to ACS Chemical Neuroscience.  Read it here.
10/2011
Several member of the Venton lab head over to Richmond for the regional ACS meeting, SERMACS, presenting both posters and talks. 
9/2011
Dr. Venton attends the Potter's Lodge Electrochemistry Meeting.
8/2011
Dr. Venton is seeking to hire a postdoc to work on CE-LIF projects.  A complete job announcement can be found by clicking this link. (Still open-Nov. 2011!!)
8/2011
Dr. Venton attends S4: the Symposium on Small Scale Separations in Saratoga Springs, NY. 
8/2011
A paper by Jennifer Peairs and Ashley Ross comparing Nafion and overoxidized polypyrrole for depositing carbon nanotubes onto electrodes is accepted to Analytical Methods.  Congratulations!
5/2011
Dr. Venton is featured in a Nature Careers profile article.  Read the article here. 
5/2011
Dr. Venton is officially approved for tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor (effective Aug. 2011)!
4/2011
Megan Pajski successfully defends her PhD thesis, becoming the 1st chemistry PhD from the Venton lab and the 2nd PhD overall.  The lab celebrates with a party at Jill's house. 
4/2011
Dr Venton is working on a set of lessons for explaining the importance of analytical chemistry to society.  A link to that web page can be found here.
4/2011
Trisha Vickrey is awarded an ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry summer fellowship.  This prestigious national fellowship, sponsored by Eastman Kodak, was awarded to only 7 students.  Trisha also was also awarded a University of Virginia GSAS (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) dissertation year fellowship.  Congratulations on both awards Trisha!
3/2011
Chris Jacobs is awarded 2nd prize for biological sciences in the Huskey Graduate Research Symposium and Trisha Vickrey receives 3rd prize for physical sciences.  Congratulations!
3/2011
A large contigent of Venton lab folks traveled to Pittcon in Atlanta.  Megan, Chris J., Trisha, and Huaifang presented talks and Ning and Ashley had posters.  Jill Venton received her 2011 SEAC Young Investigator award. 
2/2011
Chris Jacob's paper on carbon nanotube modified electrodes is accepted by the Analyst.  Congratulations!
1/2011
Huaifang Fang's paper on capillary electrophoresis with electrochemical detection is accepted by Analytical Chemistry.  Congratulations!
1/2011
Trisha Vickrey is awarded a SEAC travel award to Pittcon. Congratulations!


Go to the News Archive to read all the past Venton lab news.