News Deepak won 4th place in the graduate student poster competition at the 84th SOR Meeting for his work on measuring hydrodynamic resistance due to elastic instabilities Meng & Zeina’s work on a simple technique to separate blood plasma is published in Lab on Chip The first paper by the worm team on C. elegans kinematics is published in PLoS ONE Lubbock Avalanche newspaper published an article on Prof. Vanapalli’s efforts to patent our work on droplet arrays with concentration gradients Prof. Vanapalli receives the NSF CAREER Award Meng’s work on static drop arrays published as cover article in Lab on a Chip journal Prof. Vanapalli talks about microfluidics at a Science in 3D event hosted by TTU SACNAS Our lab hosted Science: It’s a Girl Thing Prof. Vanapalli presented Zeina’s work on tumor cell deformability at the ABTA Annual Meeting Prof. Vanapalli received Halliburton Teaching Excellence Award  Prof. Vanapalli was featured in Texas Tech Discoveries Swastika’s study of droplet trapping was published in Biomicrofluidics 4, 044110 (2010).