Congrats to Dr. Cindy Chung for successful defense of her PhD thesis! She will be starting a postdoc soon at Stanford, July 2009. Cindy Chung receives 3^rd place in the PhD level paper presentation at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, June 2009. Jason Burdick invited as participant in the National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, June 2009. Brendan Purcell receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, May 2009. Research (controlled stem cell spreading) highlighted on the cover of Soft Matter, April 2009. Cindy Chung receives Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award through the Society for Biomaterials, April 2009. Research (controlled stem cell differentiation) highlighted on the cover of Tissue Engineering A, February 2009. Cindy Chung and Jamie Ifkovits receive 2^nd place and honorable mention, respectively, in SWE poster competition, February 2009. Jason Burdick receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award, November 2008. Jason Burdick receives Coulter Foundation Early Career Award, June 2008. Jamie Ifkovits receives predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association, May 2008. Ross Marklein and Sudhir Khetan receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, April 2008. Robert Mozia receives first place at the 11^th Annual Philadelphia AMP Research Symposium and Mentoring Conference, April 2008. Jamie Ifkovitz wins poster competition award at a meeting for the Philadelphia section of the American Chemical Society and 2^nd place at a SWE poster competition, February 2008. Jason Burdick receives Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, awarded to 20 early-career scientists, October 2007. Robert Mozia receives first place for NSF Alliance for Minority Participation in Undergraduate Research Program presentation, August 2007. Robert Metter and Andrea Tan receive first and second place in undergraduate research competition at ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, June 2007. Jamie Ifkovits and Cindy Chung receive Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Awards through the Society for Biomaterials, April 2007. Andrea Tan and Radhika Gupta receive fellowships through the Merck Bio-Oriented Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, January 2007. Research (Combinatorial Polymer Libraries) highlighted on the cover of Advanced Materials, October 2006. Cindy Chung receives Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award through the Society for Biomaterials, April 2006. Josh Katz receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, April 2006. Jamie Ifkovits receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, April 2006. Research highlighted in Runner's World magazine, November 2005. Cindy Chung receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, April 2005. Research highlighted in MIT's Technology Review magazine, March 2005. "New knees: a gel could mend cartilage" Research highlighted in Chemistry World, February 2005. "It's halftime, bring on the hydrogel"