Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials -- RGSAM, October 9, 2007, Albuquerque, NM
First Prize, Undergraduate student poster competition
Integrating Living Yeast Cells into Patterned Self-Assembled Nanostructures
Cynthia M. Douthit, Eric C. Carnes, Carlee Ashley, DeAnna Lopez, Shelly Karlin, Jennifer Pelowitz, Alex Capecelatro, Darren Dunphy, Hattie Gresham, Graham Timmins, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and C. Jeffrey Brinker, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials -- RGSAM, October 9, 2007, Albuquerque, NM
Second Prize, Undergraduate student poster competition
High Precision Water Adsorption Behavior on a Variety of Surfaces and Materials Using Advanced Ultrasonic TechniquesDavid J. Kissel, Daniel D. Gonzales*, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; C. Jeffrey Brinker, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials -- RGSAM, October 9, 2007, Albuquerque, NM
Third Prize, Undergraduate student poster competition
Structure and Aqueous Stability of Surfactant-Templated Porous Films Synthesized using a Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Sol-Gel Precursor
Andrew D. Collord* and Darren R. Dunphy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Michael Tate and Hugh Hillhouse, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; C. Jeffery Brinker, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

Sandia National Laboratories’ Student Symposium, Albuquerque, NM , August 2, 2007.
First Prize, Undergraduate Student Poster Competition
Gecko Inspired Super Adhesives
Patrick Johnson1,2, Eric Branson2, C. Jeffrey Brinker2,3, and Seema Singh2
1 University of California, San Diego, 2Sandia National Laboratories, 3 Dept of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Sandia National Laboratories’ Student Symposium, Albuquerque, NM , August 2, 2007.
First Prize, Undergraduate Student Poster Competition
Cell-to-cell communication among nano-confined cells in self-assembled matrices
DeAnna Lopez1, Eric Carnes1, Carlee Ashley1, Cynthia Douthit1, Jennifer Pelowitz1, Shelly Karlin1, Anny Alsup1, Hattie Gresham1, Graham Timmins1, Jeffrey Brinker1,2
1 University of New Mexico, 2 Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

New Mexico Chapter of the American Vacuum Society, Albuquerque, NM, May 22, 2007
First Prize, Undergraduate Student Poster Competition
Integration of Living Cells within Self-Assembled Nanostructures
Carnes, Eric C.1; Ashley, Carlee E.1; Lopez, DeAnna M.1; Douthit, Cynthia1; Singh, Seema 2; Dunphy, Darren R.1; Brinker, C. Jeffrey2, 1
1 University of New Mexico, 2 Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

New Mexico Chapter of the American Vacuum Society, Albuquerque, NM, May 22, 2007.
First prize*, Graduate Student Oral Paper Competition
Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS) Characterization of 2D Bacteriophage Arrays Deposited via Convective Assembly
1Carlee Ashley*, 1Eric Carnes, 1Landon White, 1Zhen Yuan, 1Darren Dunphy, 1Dimiter Petsev, 1Plamen Atanassov, 2David Peabody, 3Jin Wang, and 1,2,4C. Jeffrey Brinker.
1University of New Mexico, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, 2University of New Mexico, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
3Argonne National Laboratories, Advanced Photon Source, 4Sandia National Laboratories* all expenses paid trip to the AVS 54th International Symposium, Seattle, WA, October 14-19, 200

Rio Grand Symposium on Advanced Materials – RGSAM, Albuquerque, NM , October 10, 2006.
Third Prize, Undergraduate Student Poster Competition
Gecko Inspired Super Adhesives
Patrick Johnson1,2, Eric Branson2, C. Jeffrey Brinker2,3, and Seema Singh2
1 University of California, San Diego, 2Sandia National Laboratories, 3 Dept of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM