News Highlights

• Ivan's paper titled "Quintuple AISI 1010 carbon steel core coil for highly focused transcranial magnetic stimulation in small animals" is published in American Institute of physics Advances (December 2020). publication link

• Dr.Hamzah Magsood's paper titled "Development of anatomically accurate brain phantom for experimental validation of stimulation strengths during TMS" is published in Materials Science and Engineering: C (November 2020). publication link

• It's pleasure to announce that Dr. Hadimani is appointed as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience (September 2020). https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/728317/overview

• Congratulations to Emily Cheng for getting into Cornell Medical School . We wish her all the best for her exciting career in medicine and thank her for outstanding work at Biomag lab that led to many publications (July 2020).

• Congratulations to Chirayu Nimonkar, for winning first place in physics category of VIRGINIA JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (VJAS) and is one of two students selected to attend American Junior Academy of Science Research Conference (AJAS) from Virginia (July 2020).

• Congratulations to Khushar Javed for graduating with an MS in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering (May 2020).

• Congratulations to Shivakumar Hunagund for graduating with a Master’s degree in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from Biomagnetics Laboratory.

• Congratulations to Farheen Syeda on passing her PhD thesis defense. Well done Dr. Syeda and all the best for your job at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (May 2018).
• Congratulations to Shivakumar Hunagund for being selected to take part in fully funded IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School at Quito, Ecuador. (May 2018)

• Our Magnetic Characterization Facility Funded by NSF is covered by VCU News and School of Engineering News (Dec. 2017): https://news.vcu.edu/article/VCU_School_of_Engineering_receives_NSFfunded_magnetic_nanomaterial



Magnetocaloric Senior Design won Sternheimer Award
Congratulations to Henry O Garcia, Meredith L Hutton, Khushar Javed, Yahya A Maly and Quang T Nguyen for winning the competitive Sternheimer Award for designing an energy efficient magnetocaloric refrigerator (Dec. 2017).
https://egr.vcu.edu/capstone/sternheimer-awards/winners/
• We are happy to announce that our NSF proposal to acquire a closed loop 9Tesla PPMS and VSM magnetometer (Dynacool) has been funded (Aug. 2017).
• Congratulations to Ahmed and Shane for getting their Gd based T2 contrast paper published in IEEE Magnetics Letters. (July 2017): http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7982751/


• Congratulations to Sierra Semel for being selected as NSF IRES Intern which will allow her to spend 2 months at Cardiff University as a research assistant


• Congratulations to Ahmed ElGendy for his new position as an Assistant Professor at Physics Department of University of Texas El-Paso


• Congratulations to Farheen Syeda for being selected to fully funded National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies (NCAN) Summer School


• Congratulations to Farheen Syeda for getting the International Magnetics (INTERMAG) Travel Award which will allow her to present her work at INTERMAG 2017 in Dublin, Ireland. http://egr.vcu.edu/news-events/news/farheen-syeda-story.html
• Congratulations to Farheen, Shane, Noel, Ahmed and Hamzah for having published their first papers from Biomagnetics Laboratory

http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4974062 http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4973596 http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4974981

• Our collaborator Dr. Holloway is the 8th busiest neurosurgeon performing deep brain stimulation in the US. She has performed more than 1000 brain stimulation surgeries.

http://news.vcu.edu/article/VCU_Health_home_to_one_of_nations_busiest_deep_brain_stimulation

• Ames Tribune covered our American Physical Society, GMAG Outreach Workshop held on April 12, 2016. http://amestrib.com/news/event-isu-inspires-local-kids-pursue-stem-disciplines


• IEEE Joint Magnetics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Richmond Chapter has been officially approved. The Inaugural Meeting is being planned in the month of September 2016.


• Undergraduate Students; Ciro Serrate and Gabrielle Jones have been selected among many applicants for the NSF funded International Research Experience for Students (IRES) internship to be held in Cardiff University, UK. February 2016


• Biomagnetics Laboratory at VCU has kickstarted research in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Magnetic Nanoparticles, January 2016

Archived News

• BBC: “Energy harvesting fibre invented at University of Bolton” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-13941599


• NewScientist: “A renewable energy generator for all seasons” http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028156.100-a-renewable-energy-generator-for-all-seasons.html


• Materials World: “Flexible approach to energy harvesting” http://www.iom3.org/news/flexible-approach-energy-harvesting


• Energy Harvesting Journal: “Smart material to generate energy from the elements” http://www.energyharvestingjournal.com/articles/2784/smart-material-to-generate-energy-from-the-elements


• The Bolton News : “The Future – made in Bolton”http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/boltonnews/8485269.The_Future___made_in_Bolton/


• Scientific American: “University of Bolton scientists create smart material generate energy from the elements” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-solar-piezoelectric-hybrid-fibe-2010-12


• Iowa State University, College of Engineering News: “ECpE Researcher Awarded International Young Scientist Fellowship” http://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2013/01/14/ecpe-researcher-awarded-international-young-scientist-fellowship/


• KCCI Iowa News “Deep brain stimulation research at ISU” http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/Deep-brain-stimulation-research-at-ISU/19579758


• ECpE Connection, Spring 2012, “Iowa State and Steptoe group partner to treat brain disorders”http://www.ece.iastate.edu/files/2012/05/spring12connections.pdf


• ECpE Connection, Spring 2013, “Charitable Trust fund brain stimulation research”http://www.ece.iastate.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2011/02/Final-print.pdf


• Institute of Physics, nanotechweb.org, March 2015, “Nanomagnetic effects find a cool application” http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/60396