Mar 26, 2026 - AMSL Research Featured in UNLV News: Saving Sea Lions with Soft Robotics
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Nov 09, 2025 - AMSL PhD Student Daniel Fisher Awarded Nevada Gold Mine Fellowship
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Sep 22, 2025 - Daniel Fisher Awarded Nevada Gold Mine Fellowship
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Jun 21, 2025 - Nazanin Minaian Successfully Defends Dissertation
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Jun 05, 2025 - PMAMSL’s Nazanin Minaian Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation
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Oct 05, 2024 - AMSL’s Blake Naccarato Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation
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Sep 22, 2024 - Blake Naccarato and Daniel Fisher Join AMSL; Two Postdoctoral Researchers Join Lab
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Jun 21, 2024 - Liya Napollion Successfully Defends Dissertation; Joins Sargent & Lundy
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Mar 20, 2024 - AMSL Students Present at 2024 Waste Management Conference in Phoenix
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Sep 22, 2023 - Dr. Junghwa Lee Joins AMSL as Senior Research Staff and Lab Manager
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Mar 20, 2023 - Spring 2023 AMSL News: Internship, Dissertation Defense, Rankings, and Conference Presentations
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Sep 22, 2022 - Fall 2022: Fremont Cannon, Justin Neubauer Dissertation Defense, AMSM2022 Awards
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Aug 01, 2022 - AMSL Students Present at DOE/EM/MSIPP Competitive Research Award Workshop
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Jun 21, 2022 - Nichole Nelson-Jean Visits AMSL Laboratory
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Apr 01, 2022 - Patent Granted: Fabricating Ionic/Polyimide Membranes
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Mar 20, 2022 - Prof. Kwang Kim Presents at 2022 SPIE Smart Materials and Structures Conference
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Mar 20, 2022 - Volumetric PIV System Now Operational at AMSL
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Dec 01, 2021 - Zachary Frank Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation; Joins Apple
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Nov 01, 2021 - AMSL Graduate Students Zachary Frank and Blake Naccarato Married
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Oct 01, 2021 - Mohammed Al-Rubaiai Wins Best Student Paper Gold Award at MECC 2021
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Jul 01, 2021 - Zakai Olsen Joins Intel Corporation as Systems Engineer
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May 01, 2021 - Nazanin Minaian Wins Second Place Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Smart Structures + NDE 2021
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May 01, 2021 - Zakai Olsen Wins Outstanding Dissertation Competition
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Apr 01, 2021 - Alexandrea Washington Wins 1st Place at Spring 2021 Graduate Celebration
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Mar 22, 2021 - Prof. Kwang Kim Receives SPIE Lifetime Achievement Award
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Mar 01, 2021 - Prof. Kwang Kim Ranked in Top 2% of Most-Cited Scientists in the World
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Sep 06, 2020 - Alexandrea Washington Selected for NASA Three-Year Graduate Fellowship
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Aug 04, 2020 - Robert Hunt Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation; Joins Facebook Media Lab
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May 19, 2019 - Rebecca Xinke Cao Named May 2019 Outstanding UNLV Graduate
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Apr 26, 2019 - Blake Naccarato Wins Third Place at 2019 Nevada NASA EPSCoR Poster Competition
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Jan 01, 2019 - Nazanin Minaian Co-Authored Paper Selected as Best Paper at AMSM 2019
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Oct 01, 2018 - Four AMSL PhD Students Present at 3rd Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics Workshop at KAIST
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Oct 01, 2018 - Prof. Kim Presents at 2018 UNLV Research Day
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Oct 01, 2018 - Prof. Kim Receives Pioneer Award at 3rd Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics Workshop
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Aug 01, 2018 - Five New PhD Students Join AMSL
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Jul 01, 2018 - Prof. Kim Gives Keynote Talk at AIM 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand
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May 01, 2018 - Sarah Trabia Defends PhD Dissertation; Joins Apple
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May 01, 2018 - Zakai Olsen Named May 2018 Outstanding UNLV Graduate
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Mar 20, 2018 - Tyler Stalbaum Receives Outstanding Dissertation Award (STEM)
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Jan 01, 2018 - Prof. Kwang Kim Elected as Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
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Dec 01, 2017 - Qi Shen Completes PhD; Recognized as Winter Outstanding Graduate 2017
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Aug 01, 2017 - UNLV NSF/PIRE Students Visit AIST in Japan
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Aug 01, 2017 - UNLV NSF/PIRE Students Visit KIST in South Korea
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Mar 20, 2017 - Zakai Olsen Named ASME Nominee for 2017 New Faces of Engineering Program
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Sep 22, 2016 - Tyler Stalbaum Defends PhD Dissertation; Named Outstanding Winter Graduate
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Jun 21, 2016 - Prof. Kim and NSF PIRE Students Collaborate with KAIST in South Korea
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Mar 20, 2016 - Spring 2016: AMSL Demo at SPIE, NSF Article, 3D Workshop, and Barrick Award
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Sep 22, 2015 - Fall 2015: NSF PIRE Funding, NASA Project, New Logo, and Lt. Governor Visit
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Jun 21, 2015 - Shelby Nelson Defends MS Thesis; Joins GearWorks
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Jan 01, 2015 - AMSL Hosts SKK University Workshop; Prof. Kim Awarded Nevada Regents’ Researcher Award
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Sep 01, 2014 - Fall 2014: NASA Fellowships, Governor Visit, Conference Talk, and Research Coverage
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Jul 01, 2014 - Kuok Cheng Completes PhD; Provisional Patent Filed
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Jun 01, 2014 - Prof. Kim Gives Invited Talk at Kentucky Organic Electronic Materials Symposium
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May 01, 2014 - Md Mainul Hossain Bhuiya Completes PhD
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May 01, 2014 - Prof. Kim Hosts First Intermountain Biotechnology, Energy and Materials Mini-Symposium
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Apr 01, 2014 - Deivid Pugal Completes Second PhD from University of Tartu
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Mar 01, 2014 - AMSL Members Present at 2014 Smart Materials and Structures Conference
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Feb 01, 2014 - Prof. Kim Hosts NASA Mini-Workshop on Soft Robotics and Active Skins
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Jan 01, 2014 - Department of Defense Awards Prof. Kim Equipment Grant
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Dec 01, 2013 - NBD Nanotechnologies and UNLV/KIER Enter License Agreement for Polymer Coating Technology
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Dec 01, 2013 - Prof. Kim Named CoRE Fellow of UNLV
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Jun 20, 2013 - Artificial muscles in Space
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Jun 20, 2013 - World Congress on Biomimetics and Artificial Muscles (BAM)
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Jun 20, 2013 - Dr. Kim’s visit to S. Korea in 2013
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Jun 20, 2011 - 2011 University of Nevada, Reno Foundation Professors announced
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Jun 20, 2009 - McNAIR Scholars Programs
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Jun 20, 2009 - No-noise artificial muscle using hydroge
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Jun 20, 2006 - IROS 2006 Tutorial on Electro-Active Polymers for Use in Robotics (TT-2)
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