July 2008 - Parag Katira presents his research at the Gordon Research Conference (Muscle and Molecular Motors).
July 2008 - Chris diBiase from Canterbury High School in Fort Myers and Shivendra Pandey from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati join the team for summer research
June 2008 - Yoli Jeune presents a talk "Using microtubules to illustrate polymer properties" at the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference in Pittsburgh http://www.asee.org/conferences/annual/2008/index.cfm
May 2008 - Ashutosh Agarwal presents a talk at the 8th World Biomaterials Congress in Amsterdam
March 2008 - Rob Tuckers paper in Nano Letters is highlighted in Nature Materials: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v7/n2/full/nmat2113.html
February 2008 - Jason Rudman receives an HHMI "Science for Life" Undergraduate Research Award, Elizabeth Mobley receives the HHMI "Science for Life" publication award.
January 08 - Henry Hess gives a Video Interview at the Photonics West 2008: http://spie.org/x20009.xml
December 07 - Shruti Banavara-Seshadri and Robert Tucker serve as judges for the Lincoln Middle School Science Fair.
April 07 - Henry Hess receives the Distinguished Mentor Award of the UF/HHMI "Science for Life" program.
April 07 - Ajoy Saha and Ashutosh Agarwal win Poster Awards at the PERC-IAB poster competition. Elizabeth Mobley and Yoli Jeune present posters at the MRS 2007 Spring meeting.
March 07 - Elizabeth Mobley and Matthew Downs receive HHMI Undergraduate Research Awards.
February 07 - Henry Hess is awarded a NSF Career Award "Creating materials via active self-assembly driven by biomolecular motors".
December 06 – Thorsten Fischer receives a Feodor Lynen postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.
August 06 – Ashutosh Agarwal presents a talk entitled 'Biomolecular motors and their application toward self-healing materials' at NANO-06, the eight international conference on nanostructured materials at the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India.
May 06 – Robert Tucker receives a Fulbright fellowship to conduct graduate studies with Dr. Stefan Diez at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.
May 06 – Michelle Kinahan receives a NSF graduate fellowship.
