Dr. Ariel Ash-Shakoor successfully defended her thesis titled, “The dynamic effects of surface topography and chemistry on cell attachment, alignment, and motility on smart, polyelectrolyte materials” on August 18, 2017.
She has accepted a position at the United States Food and Drug Administration in Maryland. 
Best wishes, Ariel!
Congratulations to former IGERT Fellow, Ariel Ash-Shakoor (bioengineering)
. On Thursday, March 23, 2017 Ariel will be presented with an Orange Circle Award for making a difference on and off the Syracuse University campus.
Learn more about Ariel’s accomplishment here.
Chemical Engineering IGERT Fellow, Nick Kelley, presented a poster titled, “3D Bioprinting of Bacterial Co-Cultures” at the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute REU poster session
Congratulations to Stephen Sawyer (2013-2015) who published his first paper in the Journal of Tissue Science & Engineering. [PDF]
Please mark your calendar for our 2016 IGERT orientation.
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
11:15-12:00pm
Room 233, Physics Building
All incoming 2016 Fellows and their peer mentors are required to come.
Current and former Fellows as well as IGERT Faculty are invited to join us!
Congratulations to Dr. Alisha Lewis, who successfully defended her thesis in Chemistry on Thursday, July 21st.
She is the first of our IGERT Fellows to graduate with a doctoral thesis entitled “DNA-Mediated Nanoparticle Clustering: Exploring the Role of Size Ratio and DNA Hybridization Energy’’
Alisha’s principal advisor was Prof. Mat Maye. She also interacted in her research with Prof. Mark Bowick from the department of physics.
Congratulations to 2016 Stevenson Biomaterials Poster Competition Winner, Adam Patch!
3rd Place – Prize Awarded $400
Finite-size effects on pressure and dynamics of motility-induced phase separation
Adam Patch, David Yllanes, M. Cristina Marchetti
Friday, March 4th, 2016
A number of former and current IGERT Trainees and Associates gave presentations at the 2016 March Meeting of the APS in Baltimore:
Michael Czajkowski (IGERT fellow), Prashant Mishra (IGERT Associate), Giuseppe Passucci (former IGERT fellow), Adam Patch (IGERT fellow), and Kazage Utuje (IGERT Associate).
Presentations were also given by a number of other members of the Syracuse Soft Matter Program:
Faculty members Mark Bowick and Joseph Paulsen Postdocs: Matthias Merkel, Matteo Paoluzzi, Oksana Manyuhina and former postdoc Max Bi. Graduate students: Tao Zhang, David Mayett, Suraj Shankar, Duanduan Wan and former student Xingbo Yang
Profs. Cristina Marchetti and Jen Schwarz, and postdoc David Yllanes all gave invited talks at the meeting.
Be sure to drop any classes by the financial deadline 2/9
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Thank you to all who participated and in the 2015 IGERT Retreat on November, 7th!