December 2011
            The group at a Christmas 2011 party. From left: First row: Travis Forbes, Jonathan Peters (PhD student, ChE), Amey Puranik (PhD student, ChE), Prof. Ali Khademhossseini of Harvard (a good friend of the group and 2011 Harrington Fellow). Second row: Stephanie Steichen (PhD student, BME), Emily Liechty, Michael Koetting (PhD student, ChE), Brenda Carillo-Conde (postdoctoral fellow), Arden Moore, Mary Caldorera-Moore (postdoctoral fellow), Sarah Propst (research assistant), Amy Bergeron (research assistant), Jenny Knipe (PhD student, ChE), Grace Fletcher (research assistant), Nicholas Peppas. Third row: Bill Liechty (PhD student, ChE), Carl Schwab, Diane Forbes (PhD student, ChE), Cody Schoener (PhD student, ChE). Fourth row: Eileen Dawson (PhD student, BME), Molly Schoener, Greg Mullen (PhD student, ChE), Mar Creixell (postdoctoral fellow), Brandon Slaughter (PhD student, BME) Absent: Rebekah Schueurle (research assistant), Heather Hutson (research assistant), Courtney Tanwar(research assistant), Jordan Keller (research assistant), Tu Pham (research assistant).

December 2011
Brenda Carrillo-Conde (postdoc), Mar Creixell (postdoc) and Grace Fletcher in front of Grace’s poster (December 2011).

December 2011
Rosalind Ambler and Mary Caldorera-Moore (postdoc) at the BME Poster Symposium (December 2011).

December 2011
Prof. Michael Smolensky, a lab collaborator, at the BME Poster Symposium (December 2011).

October 2011
From the celebration of the Purdue Chemical Engineering Centennial (October 7, 2011). An old photo of two collaborators of the laboratory decorates now one of the walls of the new Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. From left, John Howell (BS Chem ’83) and Serge Segot-Chicq (in white labcoat, Visiting scientist in 1983 and later DEA ’85 from the University of Paris-Sud under Peppas’ supervision).

August 2011
David Kryscio and Nicholas Peppas immediately after David’s PhD thesis defense on August 9, 2011. An NSF Fellow and participant in the 2009 Nobel Laureates meeting in Lindau, Germany, David published 5 papers from his PhD thesis. David was also the recipient of the 2010 University-wide Research Award for best graduate research at UT. David was the 92nd PhD student to graduate from the laboratory since the first student graduated in August 1979. David, who received also an MBA degree will be employed as a Research Manager at Futurrex of Franklin, NJ.

July 2011
Summer program of K-12 education and research. Here are four juniors from Akins High School who participated in the program in summer 2011. From left: Alann Cruz, Gladys Cruz, Christy Nguyen, Johan Gonzalez

April 2011
Three PhD students who started in the Fall 2010 work in the lab. From left: Diane Forbes, Amey Puranik and Jenny Knipe.

April 2011
Lorrel Hodgson and her ChE poster “Development of pH Sensitive Hydrogel Carrier Systems for Oral Drug Delivery” supervised by Dr. Mary Caldorera-Moore. Lorrel is a junior in ChE and has been working with us for a year.

April 2011
Jordan Keller and her ChE poster “Analysis of pH Responsive Nanoparticles for Oral Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Agents” supervised by Dr. Mary Caldorera-Moore. Jordan is a junior in ChE and has been working with us for a year.

April 2011
Julie Fogarty and her ChE poster “Synthesis of Hydrogel Nanoparticles for Cellular Uptake” supervised by Maggie Phillips. Julie just finished her sophomore year in ChE and has been working with us for two years. 

April 2011
Katy Bartlett and her ChE poster “Surface Decoration of Dextran on P(MAA-g-EG) Hydrogels” supervised by Maggie Phillips. Katy is a graduating student in ChE and has been working with us for four years.

April 2011
Linh Nguyen and her ChE poster “Molecularly Imprinted Thin Films for the Recognition of Bovine Serum Albumin” supervised by David Kryscio. Linh is a graduating student in ChE and has been working with us for one year.

April 2011
Rebekah Scheuerle and her ChE poster “Synthesis and Characterization of Degradable Crosslinked Dual-Responsive Hydrogel Systems” supervised by Bill Liechty. Rebekah just finished her sophomore year in ChE and has been working with us for two years.

April 2011
Heather Hutson and her BME poster “Polymeric Platforms for the Oral Delivery of Chemotherapeutics” supervised by Cody Schoener. Heather is a a junior in BME and has been working with us for one year.

April 2011
Amy Creecy and her BME poster “Incorporation of Hydrophobic Nanoparticles into Hydrogels for Oral Delivery” supervised by Maggie Phillips. Amy is a graduating student in BME and has been working with us for four years. She will be pursuing a PhD at Vanderbilt University.

April 2011
Grace Fletcher and her BME poster “Sequential Interpenetrating Networks for the Oral Delivery of Chemotherapeutics” supervised by Cody Schoener. Grace is a a junior in BME and has been working with us for two years.

April 2011
Michael Fleming and his BME poster “Denaturing Effects of Common Monomers and Solvents Used in Bulk-Imprinted Protein Molecularly Imprinted Polymers” supervised by David Kryscio. Michael is a graduating student in BME and has been working with us for three years. He will be pursuing a PhD at the University of Colorado.

Undergrad Pizza Party

Undergrad Pizza Party

February 2011 - Peppas Laboratory

Front row: Amy Creecy, Amey Puranik, Lorrel Hodgson, Grace Fletcher, Linh Nguyen, Jordan Keller, Dr. Mary Caldorera-Moore

Second Row: Heather Hutson, Eileen Dawson, Diane Brown, Maggie Phillips, Julie Fogarty, Rebekah Scheuerle, Jennifer Knipe, Dr. Nicholas Peppas

Back row: David Kryscio, Cody Schoener, Bill Liechty, Katy Bartlett, Quinn Fleming, Brandon Slaughter

December 2010
Julie Fogarty and her ChE poster  “Surface Decoration of P(MAA-g-EG) Hydrogels for Oral Delivery of Vaccines.” Julie is a sophomore in ChE and has been working with us for a year.

December 2010
Katie Maass (and her graduate student supervisor Maggie Phillips, left) in front of her ChE poster “Characterization of pH-Sensitive Polymers for Drug Delivery Systems." Katie has been working in the lab for two years.

December 2010
Katy Bartlett, another ChE senior who has been working with us since she was a freshman, is shown here in front of her poster “Polysaccharide Decorated P(MAA-g-EG) Hydrogels for Oral Insulin Delivery”

December 2010
Rebekah Scheuerle, a sophomore in ChE, is in her second year of work in the lab. She is shown here in front of her poster “Synthesis and Characterization of a Degradable Crosslinking Agent for Dual-Responsive Hydrogel Systems.”

October 2010
Former and present students, collaborators and family, after the Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Award at the BMES meeting on October 6, 2010.
From left: Tony Mikos (Rice Univ), Nicholas Peppas, Omar Fisher (MIT), Zach Hilt (Univ Kentucky), Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Esmaiel Jabbari (Univ South Carolina), Mary Caldorera-Moore (postdoc, UT), Ali Khademhosseini (Harvard), Steve Marek (postdoc, UT), Tania Betancourt (Innosense), Alexi Peppas, Amber Doiron (Univ Calgary), Brandon Slaughter (UT), Katia Peppas, Maggie Phillips (UT), David Kryscio (UT), Bill Liechty (UT), and Cody Schoener (UT).

May 2010
Grace Fletcher explains her BME poster on Nano- and Microparticles for Oral Delivery of Cancer Therapeutics.

May 2010
Asha Fleury with her BME poster on pH-Sensitive Intelligent Hydrogels. Asha has been with the lab for two years and did additional research at Iowa State University with Prof. Surya Mallapragada (PhD ’96).

May 2010
Amy Creecy with her BME poster on Mucoadhesion of Dextran Containing Hydrogels. Amy has been with the laboratory since she was a freshman and has worked with Maggie Phillips (PhD ’10) on the improvement of the targeting of oral protein delivery carriers.

May 2010
Andrea LeBlanc with her BME poster on the Hemolytic Activity of pH-Responsive Nanogels for Oral Delivery of siRNAs, a project she is doing in collaboration with Bill Liechty (PhD ’12).

May 2010
Lauren Collins with her BME poster Systems for Targeted Anticancer Therapy. Lauren has been with the group since she was a freshman (May 2010).

May 2010
Michael “Quinn” Fleming with his latest poster on Protein Imprinted Hydrogels, a work he has been conducting for some time with David Kryscio (PhD ’11).

May 2010
Monica Richards at the 2010 BME Graduation.

May 2010
David Kryscio receives the 2010 Outstanding Graduate Research Award of the University of Texas at Austin. Here he is shown with Provost Steven Leslie (left), George Mitchell, and Associate Dean of Engineering Jerry Speitel (right).

March 2010
Anh Nguyen and Ana Fernandez Olleros in Austin

March 2010
(From left to right) Emily Liechty, Molly Schoener (with Noah), Cody Schoener, Chelsea and Adam Ekenseair

January 2010
From a visit of Professor Kristi Anseth (BS ‘92, postdoc ‘94) of the University of Colorado to the UT campus on January 21, 2010. A photograph with current members of the lab. From left: Marty Gran, Cody Schoener, Adam Ekenseair, David Kryscio, Brandon Slaughter, Maggie Phillips, Diana Snelling, Prof. Anseth, Prof. Peppas, Bill Liechty and Dr. Steve Marek.