Steve Acquah
Coordinator, Digital Media Lab
Personal Statement
DPhil MChem (Hons.) CChem CSci FRSC FRMS FIoN
As the Digital Media Lab Unit Coordinator and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry, I can provide help to those who want create content to help with everything from person projects to faculty support for funding proposal, especially the Broader Impacts section of proposals from external funding agencies.
Invention Disclosures:
Method of Assembling and Using Carbon Nanotube Paper (Buckypaper) Batteries: 15-147 Acquah
SCISIMO: A Virtual/ Augmented Reality Science Laboratory Software Package: 15-255 Acquah
Achievements:
2017 - Curator of the Sir Harold Kroto Exhibition
2016 – The Faculty/Staff Seminole Award Nominee
2015 – GAP Award Finalist – FSU Commercialisation
2015 – Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2015 – Winner - Enterprise Video Award – Video Maverick
2015 - Center for Undergraduate Research & Academic Engagement's Undergraduate Research Mentor Award Nominee
2015 – Explore Film-making: National Film and Television School (Course)
2014 – One of the ‘175 Faces of Chemistry’ – Past and Present
Royal Society of Chemistry (http://rsc.li/1pLOEzS). Others in the list include Rosalind Franklin, Adrian V. Stokes, Alfred Nobel, Michael Faraday, Alexander Borodin and Marie Curie.
2014 – Official Opening of GEOSET Studios with Sir Harold Kroto and Bill Nye
Moderator/Panel - Discussion between Bill Nye and Sir Harold Kroto
2014 – Winner - Enterprise Video Award – Video in Education Scholarship
2014 – Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology
2014 – Business Research Certification
2014 – Chartered Scientist
2014 – Full Chartered Chemist Status
The Chartered status is only awarded by Institutions that operate under the Royal Charter by the British Monarch.
2013 – Financial Certification - FSU
2013 – Working with Google on the development of ‘Google Glass’ for the hearing impaired.
2013 - Intech (Book Chapter Recognition of 200 downloads [in 10 days])
2013 - Honors – Advancement of NSF ADVANCE-PAID initiative
2011 - Founder of the GEOSET Awards
2010 - Sonic Foundry Rich Media Impact Award (Scholastic Achievement)
2009 - Nobel Laureates Meeting (Invited Participant – Lindau (Germany)
2009 - Winner – Sonic Foundry Rich Media Impact Award (Global Outreach)
2008 - Finalist – Sonic Foundry Rich Media Impact Award (Global Outreach)
2005 - 2nd Prize in the Royal Microscopical Society Talk – Sussex University.
2002 -Royal Society of Chemistry Downland Prize for the best undergraduate final year project.
British Red Cross First Aid – Save a Life
Newham Academy of Music Training Orchestra Cup