Garrett received one of the six 2011-2012 CEMS Outstanding TA Awards given. Congratulations.

Zach has received a competitive Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) award for his work on Targeted Drug Delivery Hybrid Complex. Congratulations.
Kyle will be attending graduate school in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Congratulations.
Our alumnus Michael Baranello, a graduate student at the University of Rochester, has been awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Mike.
We welcome Christina, an undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering, into our group.

A poster with Efie's facetime profile highlighting our research is displayed in the Walter Library lobby. The poster was prepared by Meghan Lafferty.

Katerina will be attending graduate school in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UC Berkeley. Congratulations.

Todd successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis "Targeted Delivery of Polymer Vesicles Functionalized with Fibronectin Mimetic Peptides to Cancer Cells". Congratulations Todd! Good luck in your new job as Senior Engineer at Dow Chemical.

We welcome Kangbao, an undergraduate student in Chemistry from Saint Paul College, into our group.

Efie gave an invited talk at the 6th Sino-US Joint Conference of Chemical Engineering in Beijing, China.

We welcome Wenjie, an undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering, into our group.

We welcome Mohamed, an undergraduate student in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, into our group.

We welcome Zach, an undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering, into our group.

Bradford will be attending graduate school in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Delaware. Congratulations.
Rachel and Garrett passed their oral exam. They are now officially Ph.D. candidates. Congratulations.
We welcome Jamie from Tufts University as a summer undergradute researcher into our group.

We welcome two undergraduate students, Andrew and Yumi, into our group.

Efie is invited to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of Langmuir for a three year term.

Nicole and Todd won awards at the LifeScience Alley Conference for their posters "Targeting Alpha(5)Beta(1) on Pig Islets of Langerhans in Culture with PR_b, a Fibronectin Mimetic Peptide, to Stimulate ECM Production and Increase Islet Viability" and "Polymersomes Functionalized with the PR_b Peptide Promote Targeted Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells", respectively. Congratulations.

Nicole wins 2nd place at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering poster session at the 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, for her work "Benign, Permeselective Encapsulation of Porcine Islets: Active Nanomaterials Solutions for Xenotransplanation". Congratulations Nicole.
Carolyn joins our group. Welcome.

Soft Matter issue 20 was part of a themed on tissue engineering, highlighting recent advances in the area of biomaterials engineering for tissue fabrication and regenerative medicine. Our paper "Fibronectin-mimetic peptide-amphiphile nanofiber gels support increased cell adhesion and promote ECM production" was featured on the outside front cover. We are grateful to Seth Miller from our Information Technology office for his valuable help with the cover artwork.

Efie delivered the invited talk "Engineering Biomimetic Peptides for Targeted Drug Delivery" at the "Engineering Inspired by Biology" session. The National Academy of Engineering U.S. Frontiers of Engineering is an annual three-day meeting that brings together 100 of the nation's outstanding young engineers (ages 30-45) from industry, academia, and government to discuss pioneering technical and leading-edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors. Participation is by invitation following a competitive nomination and selection process. Efie is an alumna of the Symposium. She was an invited participant in 2007 and an invited session organizer in 2008.

We welcome for the summer Irene Torija, a visiting undergraduate from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Prof. Nelly Mateeva and her undergraduate student Nwamaka Onyeozili from Florida A & M .