ROH - College of Engineering - Spring 2026

Hossein Zare and Joe Mccleary presented each a poster at ROH event. Congrats to Joe to win the first place for his poster in undergrad poster presentation of CBE department! 

December 2025: Dean’s List Honors Congratulations to Joe for being named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2025 semester! This honor recognizes undergraduate students who achieve a GPA of 3.50 or higher. We applaud Joe’s dedication to academic excellence.

Late 2025: Master’s Thesis Defense A huge congratulations to Josiah for successfully defending his Master’s thesis at Johns Hopkins University! We are incredibly proud of his hard work and this significant academic milestone. Well done, Josiah!

October 2025: Conference Presentation Hossein Zare represented the Nuxoll Lab at the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing (CBB) Conference, delivering a slide presentation on his latest research. This annual event is a key venue for showcasing biochemical engineering innovation at the University of Iowa.

June 2, 2026
Congratulations, Hossein!  He is starting a 2-month industrial internship at UI Pharmaceuticals today.

May 17, 2026
Graduation! Congratulations to Oliver on earning his bachelor’s degree in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.

April 23, 2026
Congratulations, Joe!  He just received an Independent Creative Research by Undergraduates fellowship from the UI Office of Undergraduate Research to investigate whether bacteria dispersed from a biofilm are as thermally susceptible as planktonic bacteria in the Nuxoll Lab in the ’26-’27 academic year.

April 10, 2026
Hossein and Josiah’s paper “The Interplay of Dispersion and Thermal Shock in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms” is now online at the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering.

April 9, 2026
Celebrating the 100^th anniversary of the University of Iowa Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering!  Thank you Hossein for helping organize the festivities, and presenting at our Student Showcase tomorrow.

April 6, 2026
Parham, Konna, Haydar, Hannah, and Michael’s paper “Dispersion Inhibits Thermal Mitigation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms on Self-Heating Surfaces” has been published in Microbiology Open.

March 10, 2026
Congratulations, Joe!  He just received an Independent Creative Research by Undergraduates fellowship from the UI Office of Undergraduate Research to work on spatial characterization of dispersion from S. aureus biofilms in the Nuxoll Lab this summer.

January 20, 2026
Welcome to Joe McCleary, a first-year Chemical & Biochemical Engineering major joining the Nuxoll Lab.

August 25, 2025
Congratulations and Welcome Back, Josiah! He is returning to the Nuxoll Lab (and also joining the Kristan Worthington Lab) to pursue his Ph.D. with a shiny new Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

May 18, 2025
Graduation! Congratulations to Colin on earning his bachelor’s degree in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.  Next stop, University of Minnesota!

May 8, 2025
Hossein will be presenting his work tomorrow at 1:20pm in the Big Ten Theater of the Iowa Memorial Union as part of the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing’s Spring Symposium.

April 16, 2025
Congratulations to Oliver.  He just received an Independent Creative Research by Undergraduates fellowship from the UI Office of Undergraduate Research to study the effects of thermal shock on dispersion of S.aureus biofilms in the Nuxoll Lab this summer.

December 19, 2024
Congratulations to Hossein!  He just passed his comprehensive exam for his doctoral studies in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.

November 27, 2024
Thank you Haydar Al-Jaafari, for the invitation to give a keynote address (via Zoom) at the 2024 International Engineering, Technology, and Applied Sciences conference in Baghdad; Eric enjoyed it thoroughly.

July 15, 2024
Congratulations, Dr. Zoga!  Konna just successfully defended her doctoral thesis.

May 23, 2024
Congratulations to Oliver.  He just received an ICRU fellowship from the UI Office of Undergraduate Research to study dispersion of S.aureus biofilms in the Nuxoll Lab for the ’24-’25 academic year.

May 12, 2024
Graduation! Congratulations to Josiah on earning his bachelor’s degrees in both Chemical & Biochemical Engineering and Biochemistry.  Next stop, Johns Hopkins!

April 24, 2024
Congratulations to Colin.  He just received an Independent Creative Research by Undergraduates fellowship from the UI Office of Undergraduate Research to work on IR-visible thermal sensors in the Nuxoll Lab this summer.

April 16, 2024
Haydar and Nadia’s paper “Antibiotic Augmentation of Thermal Eradication of Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Infections” is now online at the journal Pathogens.

October 6, 2023
Congratulations, Konna! She was just awarded the Ballard & Seashore Dissertation Fellowship for the Spring 2024 semester by the UI Graduate College.

September 1, 2023
Colin will be presenting his poster “Thermal Shock Eradication of Single-Species and Polymicrobial Biofilms of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa and Staphylococcus Aureus” in the Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology on Monday, November 6 in Regency Ballroom R/S of the Hyatt Regency Orlando as part of the 2023 AIChE National Meeting.

July 24, 2023
Haydar, Parham, and Jaymes’ paper “Thermal susceptibility and antibiotic synergism of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus biofilms” is now online at the journal Biofouling.

June 13, 2023
Congratulations, Hossein!  He was just awarded a Biotechnology Training Fellowship from the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing as part of their NIH T32 training program in biotechnology.

May 15, 2023
Congratulations to Colin.  He just received a fellowship from the Iowa Center on Research for Undergraduates to study on thermal shock of polymicrobial biofilms in the Nuxoll Lab for the ’23-’24 academic year.

May 13, 2023
Graduation!  Congratulations to Hannah and Jaymes for earning their bachelor’s degrees in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.

May 12, 2023
Graduation!  Congratulations to Dr. Parham Parnian.

April 17, 2023
Congratulations and Welcome to David Sorenson. He just received a fellowship from the Iowa Center on Research for Undergraduates to study the dispersion of P.aeruginosa biofilms in the Nuxoll Lab this summer.

April 12, 2023
Congratulations, Parham, on successfully defending your doctoral thesis today!

January 17, 2023
Welcome to Hossein Zare, who is joining the Nuxoll Lab as a pre-doctoral researcher.

November 14, 2022
Congratulations to Parham, who just won both the 1^st Place and Competitor’s Choice awards at the AIChE’s national 3-Minute Thesis competition in Phoenix!

November 4, 2022
Congratulations to Konna for competing in the finals of the University of Iowa 3-Minute Thesis competition.

September 30, 2022
Congratulations, Parham! He was just awarded the Ballard & Seashore Dissertation Fellowship for the Spring 2023 semester by the UI Graduate College.

September 28, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Meeker. He was just awarded a Resident Research Project Grant by the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation to work in the Nuxoll Lab.  Welcome!

May 15, 2022
Graduation!  Congratulations to Nuxoll Lab alumnus Michael Toops on earning his bachelor’s degree in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.

December 16, 2021
Congratulations to Eric.  He and colleagues Jacob Elkins, Dominique Limoli, and David Stoltz were awarded a Jumpstarting Tomorrow grant by the University of Iowa P3 program.

November 12, 2021
Congratulations to Parham for earning Honorable Mention (i.e., top 3) in the University of Iowa’s 3-Minute Thesis competition.

October 14, 2021
Congratulations, Parham! He was just awarded a Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship for the Spring 2021 semester by the UI Graduate College.

September 1, 2021

Parham will be presenting at the Graduate Student Competition in Microbiointerface Research session at the 2021 AIChE National Meeting in Boston on Monday, November 8 at 4:06pm in room 310 of the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center.

August 21, 2021
Haydar, Yuejia, and Hannah’s paper “Thermal Shock and Ciprofloxacin Act Orthogonally on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms” is now available online at the journal Antibiotics.

July 15, 2021
Parham’s abstract has been accepted for an oral presentation at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston this fall as part of session 197 Graduate Student Competition in Microbiointerface Research.  Good luck, Parham!

June 16, 2021
Congratulations, Konna!  She was just awarded a Biotechnology Training Fellowship from the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing as part of their NIH T32 training program in biotechnology.

May 16, 2021
Graduation!  Congratulations to Yuejia and Nuxoll Lab alumnus Hank Gerst on earning their bachelor’s degrees in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, with an extra high-five for Hank’s summa cum laude.

May 13, 2021
Congratulations again to Michael.  He just received another fellowship from the Iowa Center on Research for Undergraduates to extend his work in the Nuxoll Lab through the Fall 2021 semester.

April 23, 2021
Congratulations and Welcome to Michael Toops.  He just received a fellowship from the Iowa Center on Research for Undergraduates to work in the Nuxoll Lab this summer.

April 21, 2021
Congratulations, Parham, for passing your comprehensive examination for our doctoral program!

January 17, 2021
Congratulations to Haydar for (co)winning the Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces Graduate Student Competition at the AIChE National Meeting in November!

June 5, 2020
Nuxoll Lab has been approved to resume on-site research activities effective June 8, 2020.  Per our COVID control plan, only one researcher may be in each laboratory room at any given time.

April 16, 2020
Congratulations and Welcome to Hank Gerst. He just received a fellowship from the Iowa Center on Research for Undergraduates to work in the Nuxoll Lab this summer.

March 18, 2020
Per order by the UI Vice President for Research, we will be winding down our laboratory experiments, effective immediately.

November 15, 2019
Congratulations to Haydar for competing in the finals of the University of Iowa 3-Minute Thesis competition.

October 16, 2019
Welcome to Konna Zoga, who is joining the Nuxoll Lab as a pre-doctoral researcher.

July 9, 2019
Eric will be giving an invited talk “Thermal Mitigation of Biofilms” at the AIChE National Meeting in Orlando on Monday, November 11 at 12:46pm in the Celebration 9 room of the Hyatt Regency.

Haydar will be competing in the Graduate Student Competition in Microbiointerface Research in the same room later that day at 3:56pm with his talk “Thermal Shock Dynamics on Biofilm Viability at Biomedical Interfaces.”  Good luck!

May 22, 2019
Congratulations Parham!  He was just awarded a Biotechnology Training Fellowship from the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing as part of their NIH T32 training program.

April 24, 2019
Congratulations, Haydar!  The UI Graduate College has awarded him a Summer Research Fellowship.

April 4, 2019
Congratulations, Hannah!  She has been awarded a summer research fellowship from the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates.

October 12, 2018
Welcome, Parham Parnian, to the Nuxoll Research Group!

July 18, 2018
Congratulations, Eric!  The American Heart Association has granted him an Innovative Project Award for his proposal “Thermoelectric Mitigation of Implant Infections.” 

July 15, 2018
Haydar will be presenting a talk” Dynamics of Biofilm Elimination on Thermally Shocked Biomedical Surfaces” at the AIChE National Meeting in Pittsburgh on Monday, October 29 at 5:15pm in the Pennsylvania East room of the Westin Convention Center as part of the Graduate Student Competition in Microbiointerface Research Good luck!

March 22, 2018
Congratulations, Haydar!  The UI Graduate College has awarded him a Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship.

January 31, 2018
Joel’s paper “BioMEMS for Biosensors and Closed-Loop Drug Delivery” is now online at the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.

January 18, 2018
Erica, Haydar, Trygg, and Bruce’s paper “Thermal shock susceptibility and regrowth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms” is now online at the International Journal for Hyperthermia, along with several other great papers on hyperthermia for infection control.

January 13, 2018
Congratulations to Joel.  His paper “BioMEMS for Biosensors and Closed-Loop Drug Delivery” has been accepted for a theme issue of the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.

October 17, 2017
Erica’s paper “Synergistic effects of heat and antibiotics on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms” is now online at Biofouling.

August 7, 2017
Congratulations to Erica.  Her paper “Synergistic effects of heat and antibiotics on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms” has been accepted for publication in Biofouling.

July 13, 2017
Eric will be giving a plenary talk “In Situ Thermal Eradication of Biofilms” at the AIChE National Meeting in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, October 31 at 8:25am in room 202 A/B of the Minneapolis Convention Center.  He will also be discussing their unified polymer erosion model on Thursday, November 2 at 1:45pm in room 211C.

June 24, 2017
Congratulations to Erica, Haydar, Trygg, and Bruce.  Their paper “Thermal shock susceptibility and regrowth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms” has been accepted for publication in a theme issue of the International Journal of Hyperthermia.  

July 17, 2016
Graduation! Congratulations to Doctor Joel Coffel. Well Done!

May 2, 2016
Congratulations to Eric! The Board of Regents of the State of Iowa has approved his application for promotion to the position of Associate Professor with tenure.

April 8, 2016
Congratulations to Joel for receiving the department's Kammermeyer Research Award and Erica for receiving the Osborn Teaching Award.

April 7, 2016
Erica was awarded the Ballard Seashore Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate College. Congratulations!

April 1, 2016
Joel was awarded the Graduate College Summer Fellowship. Congratulations!

March 28, 2016
Congratulations to Joel and Swapnill! Their paper “Unified Polymer Erosion Model for Pulsatile Drug Delivery” was accepted by the Journal of Membrane Science and is available online.

March 23, 2016
Congratulations to Joel! His paper "Poly(vinyl alcohol)  tissue phantoms as a robust in vitro model for heat transfer" was accepted by the International Journal of Polymeric Materials.

January 24, 2016
Joel has been invited to present his work at Coe College's Science talk Series in the Department of Physics. His presentation "How to Kill a Biofilm: A Chemical Engineer’s Prospective" will be given on March 29, 2016 at 12:00 PM in Peterson Hall.

November 29, 2015
Congratulations to Yasuhiro and Swapnil! Their paper "Glucose Powered Pulsatile Release" was accepted by the Journal of Chemical Engineering Research and Design and is available online.

October 24, 2015
Congratulations to Swapnil! His paper "Non-delaminating Pulsatile Release Composites" was accepted by the Journal of Chemical Engineering Science and is available online.

October 23, 2015
Congratulations to Erica on her poster award at the 24th Annual Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Conference!

October 15, 2015
Congratulations to Erica on her GSS travel grant! On to Chicago!

September 15, 2015
Ann and Erica’s paper “Thermal Deactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms” is now online

September 1, 2015
Congratulations to Erica!  Her abstract “Thermal Mitigation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms” has been accepted at the American Society for Microbiology’s 7th Conference on Biofilms in Chicago in October.

August 28, 2015
Kristan’s paper “Pre-vascularized silicon membranes for the enhancement of transport to implanted medical devices” is now online

August 25, 2015
Congratulations to Joel!  His paper “Magnetic nanoparticle/polymer composites for medical implant infection control” was just accepted by the Journal of Materials Chemistry B.  It’s already available online

August 21, 2015
Swapnil, Matt, and Yasu’s paper “Barrier-mediated Pulsatile Release” is now online

August 14, 2015
Congratulations to Kristan and crew!  Their paper “Pre-vascularized silicon membranes for the enhancement of transport to implanted medical devices” was just accepted by the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research B:  Applied Biomaterials.

August 11, 2015
Congratulations to Ann and Erica!  Their paper “Thermal Deactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms” was just accepted by Biofouling.

August 11, 2015
Prof. Nuxoll’s paper “Added Release Time in Diffusion/Dissolution Coupled Release” is now available online

August 5, 2015
Prof. Nuxoll’s paper “Added Release Time in Diffusion/Dissolution Coupled Release” was just accepted by the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.

July 30, 2015
Congrats to Swapnil, Matt, and Yasu!  Their paper “Barrier-mediated Pulsatile Release” was just accepted by the Journal of Membrane Science.

July 10, 2015
Congratulations to Erica!  Her abstract “Biofilm Mitigation on Implanted Devices” has been accepted at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Meeting in Salt Lake City in November.

May 27, 2015
Congratulations to Joel!  His abstracts “Poly(vinyl alcohol)  Tissue Phantoms for Robust Modeling of in vitro Thermal Transport” and “Wireless, Thermal Deactivation of Medical Device Infections using an Iron Oxide Nanoparticle / Polymer Coating” has been accepted at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Meeting in Salt Lake City in November.

May 15, 2015
Graduation!  Congratulations, Doctor Swapnil Gandhi, and congratulations to Ann and Bryce on their Masters degrees.  We’ll miss you!