03/22/07 - Adrienne Stiff-Roberts receives the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (ONR YIP) Award. The grant will be used to research hybrid nanomaterials for multi-spectral infrared photodetectors.

03/07/07 - Adrienne Stiff-Roberts receives Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award from the Army Research Office. Funds will be used to purchase a Riber Compact 12 Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) system.

12/15/06 - Udoka Uzoka receives 1st place in Fall 2006 Duke ECE Undergraduate Research Poster Session. First place comprised a $100 cash prize. Presented poster on photoluminescence measurements of CdSe colloidal quantum dot/ MEH-PPV conducting polymer nanocomposites deposited on GaAs substrates with different doping characteristics.