| 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) |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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| 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). |
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| 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). |
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| Dec 2015 |
Prof. Schniepp delivers an invited Keynote Speech at the 6th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues. |
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| 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. |
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| Sep 2015 |
Video Interview:
The Daily Press talks to Prof. Schniepp on the group's latest research on silkworm silk. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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| Dec 2013 |
Advanced Materials features
our brown recluse silk paper
out of all communications of the Dec 23 issue with a full-page frontispiece. |
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| Oct 2013 |
The WIRED magazine highlights our research on the silk of the brown recluse spider with an
exciting article. |
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