• Congrats to Dr. Ross Marklein for successful PhD thesis defense, August 2012.
• Congrats to Dr. Elena Tous for successful PhD thesis defense, August 2012.
• Congrats to Dr. Sudhir Khetan for successful PhD thesis defense, July 2012.
• Sudhir Khetan and Ross Marklein receive 3^rd place and honorable mention in the PhD level paper presentation at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, June 2012.
• Elena Tous receives third place in Bioengineering Graduate Group Research competition, January 2012.

• Research on cartilage tissue engineering profiled in Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2011.
• Brendan Purcell receives American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, May 2011.
• Congrats to Dr. Joshua Katz for successful PhD thesis defense, April 2011.
• Research on cartilage regeneration highlighted in Penn Current, April 2011.
• Ryan Wade, David Zhai, and Ludo Vincent (former lab member, now at UCSD) receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, April 2011.
• Vyas Ramanan receives the Herman Schwan award through the Department of Bioengineering, the M&T Award through SEAS, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, April 2011.
• Dr. Jamie Ifkovits receives the Sol Pollack award for outstanding PhD thesis from the Department of Bioengineering, April 2011.
• Elena Tous receives first place in SWE poster competition, February 2011.
• Liming Bian, Sudhir Khetan, and Elena Tous receive Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Awards through the Society for Biomaterials, February 2011.
• Jason Burdick elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). *induction deferred until 2012
• Jason Burdick receives Kalpana Chalwa Oustanding Recent Alumni Award from the University of Colorado, February 2011.
• Jason Burdick Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Award from the National Institue of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, February 2011.

• Research highlighted in Nature journal: Science-Business eXchange (SciBX), June 2010.
• Congrats to Dr. Jamie Ifkovits and Dr. Darren Brey for successful defense of their PhD theses!, June 2010.
• Iris Kim, Zen Liu, and former lab member Bobby Mozia receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Brendan Purcell receives Honorable Mention, April 2010.
• Darren Brey receives 1^st place in the Tissue Engineering poster competition at the Northeast Bioengineering Conference, March 2010.

• Research (wrinkling hydrogels) highlighted as a frontispiece in Advanced Functional Materials, October 2009.
• Research (fibrous elastomers ) highlighted on the cover of Applied Materials and Interfaces, September 2009.
• Research (high throughput screening) highlighted on the cover of Tissue Engineering B, September 2009.
• 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"

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