Ethan Post successfully defends his PhD thesis titled "Wettability Membranes and Surfaces for the Separation of Oil–Water Mixtures, Extractions, and Fouling Prevention". Congratulations and excellent work! 

Mathew Boban successfully defends his PhD thesis titled "Designing Robust Liquid and Solid Repellent Surfaces". Congratulations and phenomenal work! 

Congratulations to Kevin Golovin and Mathew Boban for their new publication on "Characterization of superhydrophobic surfaces for drag reduction in turbulent flow" published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics! Fantastic work!

Congratulations to Mathew, Kevin, Brian and Omkar on their work on "Smooth, All-Solid, Low-Hysteresis, Omniphobic Surfaces with Enhanced Mechanical Durability" published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Great work!

Kevin receives the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2017 given in recognition of the most exceptional scholarly work produced by doctoral students at the University of Michigan in 2017. Congratulations! 

Catherine wins second prize for Functional Materials Research at the Engineering Graduate Symposium. Well done!

Congratulations to Mathew and Catherine on winning the PPG Best Poster Award in Polymer Engineering and PPG Best Invited Poster in Polymer Engineering, respectively, during the 2017 Macro Symposium.

Mathew wins Silver Award for Oral Presentation on "Designing Self-Healing Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Exceptional Mechanical Durability" at the 2^nd Annual Materials Research Symposium. Congratulations!

Kevin's paper on "A predictive framework for the design and fabrication of icephobic polymers" gets published in Science Advances. Great work!