News & Awards

News:

R&D Magazine - Nanoparticles enable brain tumor painting by Miqin Zhang (August 2009)

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ACS NanoInterview - Sarikaya was interviewed, along with Zhenan Bao of Stanford University, on Molecular Recognition by ACS Nano Episode 13, (June 2009)

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GEMSEC is organizing a Symposium at the 237^th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UTAH, (March 22-26, 2009) Symposium, a part of the Nanoscience Theme, is titled Genetically-Designed Molecular Materials, organized by Candan Tamerler and Mehmet Sarikaya.

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NPR Interview - Sarikaya was interviewed, along with Janine Benyus, the author of highly acclaimed book "Biomimicry", on Biomimetics by Steve Scher on the Weekday Program (Dec 17, 2008)

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GEMSEC-Sponsored Symposium at MRS Fall Mtg, Boston, MA, (Dec. 1-5, 2008)
Symposium Y: Biomineral Interfaces - From Experiment to Theory, organized by John S. Evans (NYU and GEMSEC Investigator)

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Prototype "bionic" contact lens developed in Prof. Babak Parviz's Lab has been named one of 50 Best Inventions of 2008 by Time Magazine (Dec 2008)

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Prof. Ram Samudrala's automated approach for analysing protein function is highlighted by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). (Oct 2008)

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Prof. Francois Baneyx's group has been awarded the highly competative Grand Challenge Exploration Grant to develop new types of vaccines for infectious diseases, along with four other UW grantees. (Oct 2008)

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Tamerler and Sarikaya are the Guest Editors of MRS Bulletin, titled: "Molecular Biomimetics", (May 2008).

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Prof. Christine Luscombe's group has been awarded the DOE "Solar America Initiative" Grant (Nov 2007)

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Prof. David Ginger is one of the 2007 Sloan Research Fellowship Award Winners from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Feb 2007)

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The Washington Research Foundation's 25th annual report showcases Prof. Ram Samudrala's work on therapeutic discovery. (Jan 2007)

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Awards:

Karen Hinkley wins the 2009 Kishor M. Kulkarni Distinguished High School Teacher Award

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Prof. Christine Luscombe wins DARPA Young Faculty Award for her research on organic photovoltaic devices

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Prof. David Ginger receives ACS Unilever Award at Colloid and Surface Science Symposium (June 2008)

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Prof. David Ginger is named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (May 2007)

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Prof. Alex Jen receives Faculty Innovator for Research Award from the College of Engineering, University of Washington, (2007)
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Prof. Alex Jen receives Changjiang Endowed Chair Professorship, Ministry of Education, China (2007)

Prof. David Ginger receives a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation (June 2006)

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Prof. David Ginger receives the NSF CAREER award (Jan 2005)

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Prof. Younan Xia - Winner of 2005 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award
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Prof. David Ginger - Winner of the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Award

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