2023 News

Interdisciplinary meeting, showcasing soft materials science at the University of San Diego

Profs. Valentine and Cohen have a joint project to develop hydrogel materials for cellular force sensing, funded through a binational award of the US and Israeli National Science Foundations (NSF-BSF).  

SoCal Solids Conference  at the University of Southern California (USC)

Professor Valentine presents: Using 3D Printing to make Nature-Inspired Polymer Foams

Professor Valentine presents: Making light work with photoresponsive and 3D printed materials

Caidric Gupit presents at the XIXth Congress on Rheology in Athens, Greece

Chris Barney will start as an Assistant Professor in the School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron in Fall 2023.  

Best of luck Chris and Olivia in your new positions!

DMREF team for Living Biotic-Abiotic Materials with Temporally Programmable Actuation met to develop high throughput analysis approaches for material characterization

Olivia just graduated with her MS degree in Materials -- congratulations!