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July 10, 2011

# Evan Gates joins the Bettinger Group and is awarded a BME summer research fellowship. Welcome!

# Sharanya awarded a SURF fellowship to perform research over the summer.

# Chris presents work on topographic control of cell-materials interfaces at the Materials Research Symposium.

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Bettinger Group publishes paper in Advanced Materials
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