Nicholas Peppas with the Organizing Committee of the special event for his 60th birthday
From left: Tony Mikos of Rice University (MS '85, PhD '88), Kristi Anseth of the University of Colorado (BS' 92, postdoc 94-95), Nicholas, Chris Bowman of the University of Colorado (BS' 88, PhD '91), Surya Mallapragada of Iowa State University (PhD '96) and Balaji Narasimhan of Iowa State University (PhD '96)

Kristi Anseth (BS '92, postdoc '94-'95), Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medicine at the University of Colorado, speaks at the Symposium

Audience attending the Symposium. In the first row: Martha Honey (BS '82), now with DuPont, Rachel Lenox-Mace (BS '82), now Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt and Richard Korsmeyer (MS '79, PhD '83), now Director of Global Licensing of Pfizer

Terry Farmer (PhD '07), now with Capital One in Dallas, TX, Daniel Carr (PhD '08), now with Albemarle in Baton Rouge, LA, and Steve Marek (PhD student)

Ali Khademhosseini (a friend of the lab and frequent collaborator), now Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Nicholas Peppas and Esmaiel Jabbari (PhD '93), now an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC.

Richard Korsmeyer (MS '79, PhD '83), now Director of Global Licensing of Pfizer, and Chris Bowman (BS '88, PhD '91), now Associate Dean of Engineering at the University of Colorado.

At the Friday evening Gala event, from left: Bob Langer of MIT, Ali Khademhosseini of Harvard Medical School, Mike Sefton of the University of Toronto, Nicholas Peppas, and Tony Mikos of Rice University. in the background, Lisa Brannon-Peppas

At the Friday evening Gala event, from left: Nicholas Peppas, Mike Sefton of the University of Toronto, Tony Mikos of Rice University, and Bob Langer of MIT

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, Assistant Professor BME, Texas A&M University, Lucy Hair (PhD '83), now with Lawrence Livermore, and Maggie Phillips (current PhD student). In the background, Mike Smolensky of the University of Texas at Houston

Surya Mallapragada (PhD '96) of Iowa State University speaks at the symposium

Nicholas Peppas in front of the Peppas-Merrill equation that adorns the newly opened Biomedical Engineering building of the University of Texas at Austin

Rob Scott (MS ' 94, PhD '96), now Director of Research of Ciba Vision, speaks at the Symposium

Professor Peppas and pats and present members of the Anthony Mikos group. Prof Mikos did his MS and PhD with Professor Peppas in the late 1980s.
Left to right: Prof Laura Suggs (now BME professor at the University of Texas at Austin), Prof Johnna Temenoff (now BME professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology), Dr Richard Payne (now Director of Research of Tengion), Prof Tony Mikos (MS'85, PhD '88, now distinguished professor at Rice University), Nicholas Peppas, DR Kurt Kasper, Prof John Fisher (now ChE professor at the University of Maryland at College Park), Jiehong Liao, Leda Klouda, Lina Mountziaris, and Xuan Guo.

Zach Hilt (MS '02. PhD '04), Nicholas and Richard Korsmeyer (MS '80, PhD '83) in front of the Korsmeyer-Peppas equation in the new BME building

With Jennifer Sinclair Curtis (BS '83) now Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida