Congratulations to A.J. for winning a DoD NDSEG fellowship! And many thanks to the DoD for this tremendous support.

Congratulations to equal co-authors Weitao Wang and Bhavya Chopra on their recent paper "Cell–Surface Binding of DNA Nanostructures for Enhanced Intracellular and Intranuclear Delivery" being published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

This comprehensive study represents a tremendous collaborative effort with major contributions from co-authors Vismaya Walawalkar, Zijuan Liang and Rebekah Adams along with Professors Markus Deserno (Physics) and Xi (Charlie) Ren (BME)!

Congratulations to Bolutito Babatunde on her recent paper An Improved Shape Annealing Algorithm for the Generation of Coated Deoxyribonucleic Acid Origami Nanostructures being published in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. This joint project with co-advisor Prof. Jon Cagan has been an exciting adventure to explore a new approach for the automated design of DNA origami.

Many thanks to JMD for the invitation to publish in this special issue highlighting top papers from the 2023 IDETC International Design Engineering Technical Conference!

We captured the moment of celebration as Tito submitted the final revised version of the paper to JMD!

Congratulations to Sebastian for being awarded the 2024 Neil and Jo Bushnell Fellowship in Engineering!

This fellowship recognizes outstanding Ph.D. research in the areas of nanotechnology or electronic materials in the College of Engineering. Many thanks to Neil and Jo Bushnell for supporting this award.

The CMU College of Engineering recently celebrated the naming of Prof. Marc DeGraef as the John and Claire Bertucci Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Prof. Taylor as the Ansys Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering.

Many thanks to Ansys for this tremendous honor. Details on this chair and partnership are available via the press release entitled Ansys and Carnegie Mellon University Name Professor Rebecca Taylor to Inaugural Ansys Career Development Chair in Engineering. This announcement was also covered by bizjournals.com in article Ansys endows chair at Carnegie Mellon University.

Many thanks to the CMU Corporate Startup Lab (CSL) for the opportunity to speak at the 5th Annual Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum!

A recording of Prof. Taylor's talk is available on the CSL YouTube page.

Today Dr. Weitao Wang successfully defended his thesis entitled "Cell Membrane Engineering with Structural DNA Nanotechnology". Congratulations and fantastic work, Weitao!

Weitao's thesis committee included Prof. Rebecca Taylor, co-advisor Prof. Charlie Ren along with Prof. Markus Deserno and Prof. Phil LeDuc.

Congrats to Susana on her paper Characterization of neural mechanotransduction response in human traumatic brain injury organoid model that was just published in Scientific Reports!

It was wonderful joining in this collaboration with lead PIs Phil LeDuc and Pascal Zinn!

Congrats to Emma and Taryn on their paper Buoyant magnetic milliswimmers reveal design rules for optimizing microswimmer performance that was just published in Nanoscale!

This has been a wonderful collaboration with PIs Sarah Bergbreiter and Matt Travers!

We are delighted that Nature has written a highlight entitled DNA origami provides a stout armour for cells about our team’s recent work on tunable DNA-based nanoshells for cells. Congrats to Weitao Wang for leading this! Thanks to Xi (Charlie) Ren for being such an amazing collaborator.