Prof. Taylor presented our team's work on peptide nucleic acid (PNA) nanotechnology, generative nanostructure design and our MoleculeCrafter software for making articulated molecular models at the 2025 Foundations of Nanoscience meeting in Snowbird, UT.

Thank you to the organizers of the FNANO 2025 meeting for the invitation to speak! And thank you our wonderful collaborators Bradley Pentelute (Chemistry, MIT) and Jonathan Cagan (MechE, CMU) for the exciting collaboration on PNA nanotechnology and generative nanostructure design.

Congratulations to Dr. Sebastian Arias for successfully defending his thesis today. Fantastic work!

Dr. Sebastian Arias shown celebrating immediately after his defense with a portion of his committee (left to right: Prof. Rebecca Taylor, Dr. Sebastian Arias, Prof. Markus Deserno, and Prof. Stephanie Tristram-Nagle [4th committee member Prof. Jonathan Cagan not pictured])

Congratulations to Research Masters student Karthik Subramaniam on winning a Best Poster Award at the MechE MS Research Symposium or his work simulating the locomotion of compliant microswimming robots.

Many thanks the National Academy of Sciences and PNAS for inviting me to present on AI and automated science at the 16th NAS 2025 Journal Summit in Washington, D.C. from March 19-20, 2025.

Inspiring talks by co-panelists Prof. Jeannette Wing (Columbia University) and Dr. Roy Perlis (Massachusetts General Hospital) and the insightful questions by moderator Dr. Roger Schonfeld (ITHAKA S+R) made for an exciting session focused on how AI (writ broadly) will change the practice of science and how those results are communicated!

Congratulations to Isabella Ferranti and Taryn Imamura for both winning MechE Graduate Fellowships!

Isabella has been awarded the G. Sundback Graduate Fellowship, and Taryn has been awarded the Nam Pyo and Young Suh Graduate Fellowship.

Congratulations on this recognition for your research accomplishments!