News

May 2008

Hongjun Liang will be an Asst. Prof. at the Colorado School of Mines and Lihua Yang will be an Asst. Prof. at the University of Sichuan (四川大学). Congratulations!

April 2008

Congratulations to Abhijit for a great job and a new laptop.

Abhijit Mishra (leftmost) won the Racheff Intel Graduate Student Research Award for his research on how "HIV TAT forms pores in membranes by inducing saddle-spray curvature: general mechanism for cell-penetrating peptides". (picture source: MatSE UIUC student news)

Jan 2008

Lihua & Lori's 2007 papers were featured on the MRS bulletin, 2008 Jan issue.

Lihua Yang's JACS paper and Lori Sanders' PNAS paper, both from 2007, were featured on the cover of the January 2008 issue of the Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin.

Jul 2007

Ivan Smalyukh will start as an Asst. Prof. at the University of Colorado!

May 2007

Lihua Yang won the Racheff Intel Graduate Student Research Award for her work on antimicrobial peptide mimics.

Apr 2007

Kirstin Purdy's work on espin-actin interactions is highlighed by the Stanford Synchroton Radiation Lab and by the Advanced Photon Source.

Jan 2007

Our collaborative work with Prof. JJ. Cheng and Prof. Y. Lu on aptamer-aptazyme vesicles received the Prostate Cancer Foundation Competitive Award.

2006

Ivan Smalyukh won the Glen Brown Award.

Mar 2006

Hongjun Liang's work on DNA-anionic liposome complexes was cited at SSRL Science Highlight.

2005

Hongjun Liang's work on self-assembled DNA-anionic liposome complexes was featured by the Advanced Photon Source as a Scientific Highlight.

May 2004

Hongjun Liang wong a Racheff/Intel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research.

2004

Gerard Wong's work (Science 288(2000)) is referenced in Nature Materials News & Views.

2003

Tommy Angelini's work on charge density wave formation on F-actin and John Bulter's work on multivalent ion mediated like-charge attraction in viruses are both selected by APS News as a year end highlight in Physics News in 2003.

Dec 2003

Hongjun Liang's work on molecular casting of CdS crystals using DNA is included in Chemical & Engineering News Chemistry Highlights 2003.

Aug 2003

Tommy Angelini's work on F-actin and John Bulter's work on M13 are featured by AIP Physics News Update.

Jul 2003

John Butler's work on like-charge attraction between polyelectrolytes is featured by Physical Review Focus.

Dec 2000

Gerard Wong's work with C. R. Safinya on F-actin cationic lipid complexes (Science 288 (2000)) was mentioned in Chemical & Engineering News Chemistry Highlights 2000.