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• David Wright & Rick Haselton - Gates Foundation Award recipients
  October 21, 2009 the Gates Foundation announce that 76 new global health projects received Grand Challenge Explorations grants.
• Sandra Rosenthal - Recipient of 2009 Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
• Sharon Weiss -- PECASE recipient
  July, 2009 -- President Obama named Sharon Weiss and 99 other beginning researchers as PECASE recipients.

• 10th Annual NanoDay Poster Competition
  one 1st place award $500
  two 2nd place awards $250 each
  three 3rd place awards $100 each
• 10th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum
  November 4, 2009
• T-Shirt Winner
• Poster Winners
  10th Annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum

• November 4, 2009
  Dr. Tom Picraux
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER, 10th Annual NanoDay
  Chief Scientist, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
• November 18, 2009
  Dr. David Cahill
  University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
  "Extremes in Heat Conduction: Pushing the Boundaries of the Thermal Conductivity of Materials"