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Pictures 2007

International Meeting of Cellular and Biomolecular
Engineering, Singapore
From left: Tang Yongdan, Prof. Stuart Williams
(Univ. of Louisville), Xia Yun, Sandeep
Tiwari, Nicholas Peppas, Lisa Lao (former
student at UT) (December 2007) |
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Just before the 59th AIChE Institute Lecture,
from left: Alec Scranton (PhD '90) Associate
Dean of Engineering at the University of
Iowa, Chris Bowman (PhD '91) Associate Dean
of Engineering at the University of Colorado,
Steve Lustig (MS '85, PhD '89) Senior Research
Scientist, EI DuPont deNemours, Tony Mikos
(MS '85, PhD '88) Distinguished Professor
at Rice University, and N Peppas (November
2007) |
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School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston,
United Kingdom, The Impact of New Technologies
on the Future of Pharmacy Practice and Science
From Left: Bill Dawson, Lindsay McClure,
Tony D’Emanuele, David Pruce, Damien Day,
Nicholas Peppas (September 2007) |
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From the Award ceremony of the Career Excellence
Research Award
of UT to Prof. Nicholas A Peppas.
From left, Juan Sanchez, Vice-President
of Research, Nicholas Peppas
and William Powers, President of UT-Austin
(February 2007) |
Pictures 2006

NEPTIS-15 Meeting - Awajishima, Kobe, Japan
Front: N.A. Peppas, K. Higashitani, K. Okuyama,
A. Watanabe, S. Watano,
F. Saito, C.-M. Lehr, G.S. Kwon; Middle:
H. Murata, T. Ozeki, Y. Byun, U.B. Kompella,
M. Yokoyama, H. Takeuchi, H. Ichikawa; Back:
T. Nakayu, K. Yubuta, H. Honda, T. Iwasaki,
H. Okamoto (December 2006) |
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NEPTIS-15 Meeting
Awajishima, Kobe, Japan (December 2006) |
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Professors Robert Nerem (Georgia Tech) and
Nicholas Peppas at the scientific meeting
in honor of Prof Ratner (Kaanapali, HI,
December 2006) |
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Professors Lynn Loo and Nicholas Peppas
of UT, winners of two
prestigious AIChE awards, the William H
Walker and Allan P Colburn
awards, in San Francisco, CA (November 2006) |
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Michael Sefton, University Professor of
the University of Toronto, Canada, Nicholas
Peppas and Patric Wong, Vice-President of
ALZA Corp reunite in San Francisco on the
occasion of the 2006 AIChE meeting. Mike,
Pat and Nicholas were working together in
Professor Merrill’s laboratory 35 years
earlier! Pat Wong was a postdoctoral fellow,
while Mike and Nicholas were graduate students.
(November 2006) |
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The speakers of the first Ashland Distinguished
Lecture Series
Univ. of Kentucky College of Engineering
Michael Deem, Mark E. Davis, UK President
Lee Todd, Nicholas Peppas and Douglas A.
Lauffenburger (October 2006) |
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The 2006 class of the National Academy of
Engineering (NAE). In the first row, center
Professor Peppas. To his left, Professor
Samuel Bodman, Energy Secretary of the GW
Bush administration. Dr Bodman was Dr Peppas’
professor in an MIT course on Entrepreneurship
(10.72) back in the early 1970s. To the
right of Prof Peppas, Professor Bernhard
Pallson, another chemical engineer, now
Professor of BME at the University of California
in San Diego, and two spots further Prof
Jack Linehan of Stanford, a distinguished
biomedical engineer. (October 2006) |
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Induction of Dr. Nicholas Peppas to the
National Academy of Engineering.
From left: Prof. Nicholas A Peppas, Prof.
Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Prof. Robert Nerem
(Georgia Tech) and his wife, Prof. Bernhard
Pallson (Univ California at San Diego) and
his wife, Prof. John Linehan (Stanford University)
and his wife. (September 2006) |
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Induction of Dr. Nicholas Peppas to the
National Academy of Engineering (September
2006) |
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Drs. Nicholas Peppas and Lisa Brannon-Peppas
in front of Einstein's statue at the National
Academy building (September 2006) |
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Bob Langer Receiving Letter of Commendation
from President George W. Bush at "Celebrating
Thirty Years of Robert Langer's Science"
event in Boston, MA
From left: Joachim Kohn (Rutgers Univ.),
Bob Langer, Nicholas Peppas, Elazer Edelman
(MIT) (July 2006) |
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"Celebrating Thirty Years of Robert Langer's
Science" in Boston, MA
From left: Kristy Wood, Nicholas Peppas,
Bob Langer, Hunter Lauten and Daniel Carr
(July 2006) |
Pictures 2005
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Don Owens and Brock Thomas at the World
Congress
on Gel Science
Sapporo, Japan (October 2005)
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34th Reunion of the 1971 Chemical Engineering
graduating class of the National Technical
University of Athens (Ethnikon Metsovion
Polytechneion, EMP)
First row (sitting) from left: Elias Kampakas,
Costas Lamnatos, Anna Blatsi, Sokrates Rokotas;
Second row: Andreas Fintikles, Manolis Kakaroglou,
Danae Doulia (now Professor at EMP); Third
row: Yorgos Tsoukas, Kyriakos Masavetas
(now Professor at EMP), Olga Kitsou, Maria
Mandaraka (now Professor at EMP), Angela
Ladia, Nikos Peppas, Artemis Bamiha, Costas
Kyparissides (now Professor at the University
of Thessaloniki), Petros Tzias, Sotiris
Papanicholas; Fourth row: Yannis Tsoukas,
Thanassis Makris (Met Eng), Andreas Andritsos,
Vassilis Gekas, Maurice Capuano, Mihalis
Attarian, Antonis Zioudas, Nikos Fragiadakis;
Last left: Antonis Makaronides; Present
but left early: Yannis Kavallieratos, Nikos
Arabatzis; Absent: Apostolos Argyriades,
Spyros Christodoulou, Petros Eliades, Cosats
Ganetsos, Stelios Kanavis, Costas Karetzopoulos,
Yannis Kolios, Yannis Kotsimbos, Costas
Konstantinoglou, Mihalis Kapellas, Daphne
Lipovats, Stelios Lolakas, Kyriakos Mitsotakis,
Manolis Nomikos, Dimitris Papadopoulos,
Yorgos Papathanassiou, Christos Pavlou,
Dimitris Samaras, Thodoros Sideropoulos
(ExxonMobil USA), Panayiotis Tampakologos,
Costas Theologos, Eustathios Triantafyllides,
Stelios Tsonis, Dimitra Zerva (June 2005)
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Inaugural address to the Académie nationale
of Paris, France upon Professor Peppas’s
election to this French Academy. The lecture
was given at the historic Academy building.
The Academy was founded on April 11, 1803
by Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829).
(June 2005) |
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Reception at the Académie nationale of Paris,
France upon Professor Peppas’s election
to this French Academy. Second from left
is Professor Francis Puisieux of the University
of Paris-Sud who made the nomination. First
from right is Professor Dominique Duchêne
of the University of Paris-Sud (June 2005) |
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European Polymer Congress, Moscow. Plenary
lecture of Nicholas Peppas at the main amphitheater
of the Lomonosov State University (June
2005) |
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Society for Biomaterials Founders Award
Memphis, TN (April 2005) |
Pictures 2004

Party at the AIChE meeting in Austin
From the front, clockwise: Kristy Wood (now
at Epic, Boston), Zach Hilt (Univ Kentucky),
Jay Blanchette (Univ South Carolina), Bob
Parker (Univ Pittsburgh), Tony Lowman (Drexel
Univ), Mark Byrne (Auburn Univ), Chris Brazel
(Univ Alabama), Nicki Bergmann (St Louis
Univ) (November 2004) |
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Party at the AIChE meeting in Austin - Former
lab associates
First row (sitting): Kristy Wood (Epic),
Tom Dziubla (Univ Kentucky), Balaji Narasimhan
(Iowa State Univ), Nicki Bergmann (St Louis
Univ); Second row (first row standing):
Mark Byrne (Auburn Univ), Madeline Torres-Lugo
(Univ Puerto Rico), Marianthi Ierapetritou
and Yannis Androulakis (friends, Rutgers
Univ), Esmaiel Jabbari (Univ South Carolina),
Chris Bowman (Univ Colorado), Chris Brazel
(Univ Alabama) and Surya Mallapragada (Iowa
State Univ); Third row: Nicholas Peppas
and Lisa Brannon-Peppas (Univ Texas at Austin),
Alec Scranton (Univ Iowa), Bob Parker (Univ
Pittsburgh), Jay Blanchette (Univ South
Carolina), Kim HaydenHenthorn and David
Henthorn (Univ Missouri at Rolla), Vanessa
and Tom Chiesl Very back: Tony Lowman (Drexel
Univ) (November 2004) |
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Japanese Drug Delivery Systems Meeting
Tokyo (July 2004) |
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Prof. M. Hashida (Kyoto), T. Nagai (Hoshi),
NAP,
S. Sugiyama (Tokyo) at the Japanese Drug
Delivery Systems Meeting (July 2004) |
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With the long term Japanese collaborators
from Hoshi University in Tokyo Front row:
Professor Tsuneji Nagai, then President
of Hoshi University Back row: Professors
Mariko Morishita and Kozo Takayama of Hoshi
University (May 2004) |
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Visiting former PhD students in Seoul, Korea
From left: Bumsang Kim (now Professor of
ChE at Hongik University in Seoul), Myung
Cheon Lee (now Professor of ChE at Dongguk
University in Seoul) and Dukjoon Kim (now
professor of ChE at Sung Kyun Kwan University
in Suwon). (May 2004) |
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With the students and research associates
of professor Kozo Takayama’s laboratory
at the new facilities of Hoshi University
in Tokyo, Japan. Among others: Professors
Takayama, Peppas and Morishita in the middle
and Dr Obata at the extreme right of the
first row. (May 2004) |
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World Congress of Pharmaceutical Sciences
in Barcelona, Spain with Dr Laura Serra
(left, now at Baxter) and Dr Kristy Wood
(now at Epic) (April 2004) |
Pictures 2003
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From the 2003 Gattefossé meeting in St.
Rémy de Provence: Vladimir and Vera Torchillin
of Norteastern University, Nicholas Peppas
and Jindrich Kopecek of the University of
Utah (May 2003)
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2003 Society for Biomaterials Founders Award
to E W Merrill
Clockwise: Mike Sefton, Nicholas Peppas,
Ed Merrill and Allan Hoffman (April 2003)
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Pictures 2002
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Dale Wurster Award in Pharmaceutics awarded
to N Peppas by the American Association
of Pharmaceutical Scientists (November 2002)
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From the Gala event in honor of Bob Langer's
recognition with the Charles Draper Award
by the National Academy of Engineering,
Washington DC
From left: Laura Langer, Bob Langer (MIT),
Jay Vacanti (Harvard), Susan Vacanti and
Nicholas Peppas. (October 2002)
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From the Gala event in honor of Bob Langer's
recognition with the Charles Draper Award
by the National Academy of Engineering,
Washington DC
From left: Laura Langer, Mrs. Hamilton, Bob Langer,
Bruce Hamilton, Nicholas Peppas, Colin Gardner,
Mrs. Gardner (October 2002)
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Pictures 2001
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Plenary Lecture at the 6th International
Symposium on Polymers for Advanced Technologies
in Eilat, Israel (September 2001)
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From the same meeting, Nicholas Peppas speaks
while Professors Klaus Mosbach (University
of Lund, Sweden), Smadar Cohen (Ben-Gurion
University, Israel), and Yosi Kost (also
Ben-Gurion University, Israel) listen. (September
2001)
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Retirement meeting for Prof. Pierre Buri
of the University of Geneva: with
Prof. Eric Doelker (Univ. Geneva), Prof.
Dominique Duchêne (Univ. Paris) and Prof.
Hatem Fessi (Univ. Lyon). (September 2001)
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With Dr. David Ranney and Prof. Roland Bodmeier
of the
Free University of Berlin at Ahlbeck of
Ostvorpommern, Germany, on the Baltic Sea.
(May 2001)
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Free University of Berlin. Jürgen
Siepmann, Florence Lecomte, Christa Siepmann,
and Prof. Rainer Müller. (May 2001)
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Barcelona Spain. Visit of Prof. Peppas
at the University of Barcelona with (from
left to right) Professors J. Domenech, A.
Carmona, I. Diaz, S. Cemeli, N. A. Peppas,
Suñer, A. Calpena, C. Peraire, and J. Lauroba.
(April 2001)
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Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. Prof.
José Luis Lastres, Prof. N. A. Peppas, Prof.
Santiago Torrado, Prof. Susana Torrado,
Prof. Juan José Torrado. (April 2001)
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La Coruña, Spain. Prof. Peppas with
Prof. Maria José Alonso (left) and Prof.
Dolores Torres (right) of the University
of Santiago de Compostela. (March 2001)
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Nicholas Peppas speaks at the special University
Senate meeting room of the University of
Santiago de Compostela, Spain (March 2001)
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Professors Nicholas Peppas and Jose Luis
Vila Jato at the Old University Library
of the University of Santiago de Compostela,
Spain (March 2001)
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An evening at Santiago de Compostela with
three important collaborators and friend
sof the laboratory. From left: Prof. Patrick
Couvreur (University of Paris-Sud), Prof.
Maria Jose Alonso (University of Santiago
de Compostela) and Prof. Jean Pierre Benoit
(University of Angers, France) (March 2001)
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Professor Peppas in front of the Teatro
Verdi of Busseto, province of Parma, on
January 27, 2001, the exact day of the centennial
of Giuseppe Verdi’s death.
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Pictures 2000
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Wallace Fowler, President of the American
Society for Engineering Education, awards
the 2000 General Electric Senior Research
Award of ASEE to Nicholas Peppas at the
Annual ASEE meeting in St Louis, MO (July
2000).
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