Highlights
| Jul 2022 | Our spider silk research was featured on TV! Reporter and news anchor Anthony Sabella from channel 3 WTKR came to the lab to interview Dinidu Perera and Ben Skopic and learn more about our spiders. You can watch the video feature on our blog or the WTKR website! |  |
| Jul 2022 | We are now on social media! Please follow our new nano & biomaterials lab Twitter page @SchnieppLab for research updates from our team! |  |
| May 2022 | Follow our new nano & biomaterials lab Lab LinkedIn page for updates of our research team! |  |
| Dec 2019 | Qijue Wang presented a poster at the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA where he was awarded a nomination for Best Poster |  |
| Feb 2019 | 12-minute radio feature of our silk research titled Bulletproof Spider Silk. Aired Feb. 15 on NPR's show “With Good Reason” hosted by Sarah McConnell. (Episode Link) |  |
| Nov 2018 | Discussion of Strength of Recluse Spider’s Silk Originates from Nanofibrils reaches #1 on the engineering subreddit for two days, receiving over 32,000 upvotes and 800 comments. |  |
| Mar 2017 | The U.S. National Science Foundation produces a video feature of our breakthrough on the loops of the brown recluse spider in their Science Now—Science 360 show (Episode 50). |  |
| Feb 2017 | Discovery Channel Canada airs a TV feature of our brown recluse looped silk discovery in their science show Daily Planet (7:00 pm show on February 15). |  |
| Feb 2017 | BBC radio interview: On Feb. 20, the BBC aired a 5-minute radio interview with Prof. Schniepp on the group's recent breakthough on the looped recluse silk. Now available here (The Naked Scientists). |  |
| Dec 2015 | Prof. Schniepp delivers an invited Keynote Speech at the 6th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues. |  |
| Dec 2015 | Sean Koebley's poster on the toughness of the brown recluse spider was nominated for Best Poster Award at the 2015 MRS Fall National Meeting in Boston, MA. |  |
| Sep 2015 | Video Interview: The Daily Press talks to Prof. Schniepp on the group's latest research on silkworm silk. |  |
| Aug 2015 | The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a 4-year, $324,000 award from the DMREF program (Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future) to Prof. Schniepp, starting Oct. 2015. | |
| Feb 2015 | For the term 2015–2018, The College of William & Mary has designated Prof. Schniepp the Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor of Applied Science in recognition for his contributions in teaching and research. |  |
| Dec 2014 | "Highly Cited" Status for 5th Paper: Our 2012 paper “Methods of Graphite Exfoliation” has now reached “highly cited” status, as it is in the top 1% of all papers in Materials Science. This is Prof. Schniepp's 5th “highly cited” paper. |  |
| May 2014 | Prof. Schniepp is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award from the U. S. National Science Foundation (award # DMR-1352542). The award will provide a total of $450,000 over 5 years to investigate the ribbon silk of the loxosceles spider. | |
| Mar 2014 | Discovery Channel Canada airs a TV feature of our brown recluse silk project in their science show Daily Planet (7:00 pm show on March 10). | |
| Dec 2013 | Advanced Materials features our brown recluse silk paper out of all communications of the Dec 23 issue with a full-page frontispiece. |  |
| Oct 2013 | The WIRED magazine highlights our research on the silk of the brown recluse spider with an exciting article. |  |
Cover Stories
Covers featuring the work of Prof. Schniepp's and his group:
