News
2024
- December - Alyssa, Olivia, and Samson traveled to Boston to present our latest work in engineered living materials!
- November - Lab holiday outing to the bowling alley, we forgot to take pictures again! Next time!
- November - The lab is awarded the NSF CAREER Award on the "Mechanical Properties of Ultrathin Polymer Films". We are excited to continue to work with TUFF/TUTTUT to increase our knowledge of ultrathin polymer films!聽
- October - K艒nane traveled to San Diego to present our latest work on 3D printing biohybrid materials at American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting!聽
- September - We welcome Kiera Croland, who will be doing her Ph.D. in our group on biofilm mechanics! Excited to have you!
- August - The whole group took the bus to Denver to 聽present their work at the ACS Fall Meeting
- July - K艒nane traveled to Hadley, MA to attend the Polymer Physics GRC! 聽
- April - Ava Crowley was awarded an Honorable Mention from NSF GRFP! Congrats to Ava, we are excited to what the rest of your Ph.D. has in store!
- March - While in Netherlands, K艒nane traveled up north to Groningen to present an invited seminar at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials!聽聽K艒nane enjoyed chatting with new and old friends about science!
- March - K艒nane traveled to Kerkrade, Netherlands to present our latest work on mechanics of ultrathin soft polymers at the International Conference on聽Deformation, Yield, and Fracture of Polymers! Thanks for the invite! Looking forward to traveling back in three years!
- March 聽- Samson, Lydia, and Ava traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesotta聽to present their work at APS March Meeting.
- Feb. - Samson was selected for a travel grant to attend the聽DPOLY APS Short Course on the Polymer Physics of Additive Manufacturing in March! Congrats Samson!
- Feb. - K艒nane traveled to Savannah, Georgia to present our latest work on mechanics of ultrathin soft polymers at the Annual Conference of the Adhesion Society!聽
- Jan. - Ava Crowley was awarded a Department of Education GAANN fellowship for the Sping 2024!
- Jan. - K艒nane is selected as one of the inaugural聽U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Outreach Fellow!
- Jan. 聽- Group outing to the 欧美口爆视频 Boulder Women's Basketball Game against UCLA! We are sad they lost but we had fun watching the game!
- Jan. - We welcome Owen Sablocik to the group! Owen is an undergraduate researcher聽doing his first research experiences with us! We look forward to seeing his聽progress this semester!
- Jan. - We welcome Alyssa Libonatti, and Olivia Pear to the group! Alyssa聽is a Ph.D. student in Biological Engineering. Olivia is a Ph.D. student in Materials Science聽Engineering.聽
2023听
- Nicole Garza was awarded funding from聽Discovery Learning Apprenticeship Program at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder to work in our lab for the 2023-2024聽academic year.
- Samson was awarded a Molecular Biophysics T32 Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year! Congrats to Samson!
- K艒nane traveled to Midland, Michigan to聽give an invited talk in the Adhesion Community of Practice Seminar series at Dow. Thanks for the invite.聽聽
- Carlos Ruiz Gonzalez joins the lab as a Summer Program for Undergraduate Researcher! We look forward to working with him this summer!
- Lydia Flackett will be continuing to work in our lab this summer! We look forward to continuing to work with her!
- K艒nane traveled down to Alburqurque to give two invited talks! One in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of New Mexico and the other at the Center for Intergrated Technologies at Sandia National Laboratories! Thanks for the great conversations and the invitations!
- Samson was selected for the 2023 BioPACIFIC Materials Innovation Platform Summer School! He聽will visit UCLA for a week to learn more about 3D printing biomaterials!
- Nicole Garza and Teagan Kelly was聽awarded funding from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program聽to work part time in the lab this summer!聽Congratulations to Nicole and Teagan!聽
- K艒nane gave an invited talk in the Symposium on "Engineered Living Materials through Synthetic Biology-Beyond the Crossroad of Biology and Chemistry" at the Spring Meeting of聽American Chemical Society National Meeting. Thanks for the invitation!
- Nicole Garza is awarded the CHER 4 U fellowship from 欧美口爆视频 Boulder AIChE chapter聽to work in the lab this spring! Congratulations to Nicole!聽
- We welcome Teagan Kelly, Lydia Flackett, and Nicole Garza to the the group! They are all undergraduate researchers doing their first research experiences with us! We look forward to seeing their progress this semester!
- We welcome Nickolas Gibson, Ava Crowley, and Samson Adelani to the group!聽Nick is a Ph.D. student in Biological Engineering. Ava is a Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering. Samson is a Ph.D. student in Materials Science聽Engineering.聽
2022听
- K艒nane gave an invited talk in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at 欧美口爆视频 State University. Thanks for the invitation!聽
- K艒nane presented an outreach presentation聽with Etta Tsosie (Penn State) at the National Conference for聽American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
- The Huli Materials Lab officially opened at University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder. We look forward to sharing our latest news and updates here.聽