March 14^th 2012: Central Bucks High School-West student Matt Ernst wins first place in his category at the Bucks County Science Fair for his project on the fabrication of substrate-based gold nanowires using colloidal chemistry. He now advances to the Delaware Valley Science Fair at the Greater Philadelphia Convention Center.

February 29^th 2012: Ph.D. candidate Aarthi Sundar presents her research at Temple University during National Engineers Week.

February 25^th 2012: Central Bucks High School-West student Matt Ernst wins first place in his category and top score for his high school at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS)Regional Competition for his project on the fabrication of gold nanowires using colloidal chemistry. He now advances to the state competition at Penn State.

February 18^th 2012: Ph.D. candidate Aarthi Sundar and Undergraduate summer intern Chris Decker have their paper “The Templated Assembly of Highly Faceted Three-Dimensional Gold Microstructures into Periodic Arrays” accepted to Material Letters.

December 12^th 2011: Ph.D. candidate Aarthi Sundar has her paper “Manipulating the Size Distribution of Supported Gold Nanostructures” accepted to Applied Physics Letters.

October 29^th 2011: Undergraduate summer intern Chris Decker presents his NSF NUE sponsored research project at the ASEE conference.