Research Undergraduate Assistant Jessie Minick, a junior in the Materials Science and Engineering program, was the recipient of an Honorable Mention Award (2nd Place) for the poster she presented titled “Operation of a DNA-Based Nanomachine in Human Blood”, at the 8th Annual Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices (FNANO) in Snowbird Utah on April 11 – April 15, 2011. Her poster placed 2nd after that of Dr. Faisal Aldaye, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in Professor Pam Silver’s group, whose work was titled “Engineering an Artificial In-Vivo Enzymatic Pathway Using RNA Nanotechnology”. Co-authors on Jessie’s poster included Professors Elton Graugnard (MSE), Jeunghoon Lee (Chemistry), Wan Kuang (ECE), Bernie Yurke (MSE & ECE), and Will Hughes (MSE) within the Nanoscale Materials and Device Research Group.