The following links highlight our work as covered by the news:
- Pupa Gilbert earns WARF Named Professorship 8/1/2024
- Faculty receive 2024-25 WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, and Romnes Awards 8/1/2024
- ALS Science Briefs: Surprise Mineral Precursor Found in Coral Skeletons and Mollusk Shells 5/22/2024
- News from Berkeley Lab: Shedding Light on Sea Creatures’ Secrets 3/26/2024
- The Analytical Scientist: Tough Mother (of Pearl) 4/27/2021
- Optics and Photonics News: Probing the Secrets of Pearls with Light 4/14/2021
- On Wisconsin: Hope for Coral Reefs 4/8/2021
- UW News: A better understanding of coral skeleton growth suggests ways to restore reefs 11/09/2020
- Chemical & Engineering News: What is dental enamel, and how does it protect your teeth? 10/19/2020
- Brains On!: Why does green mean go? And other color conundrums 06/16/2020
- Berkeley Lab: In Tooth Enamel, Slight Crystal Misorientations Stop Cracks in Their Tracks 12/23/2019
- American Scientist: The Hardest Tissue 12/20/2019
- Sigma Xi Society: Podcast of The Hardest Tissue 12/12/2019
- ALS Highlight: Crystal Misorientation Toughens Human Tooth Enamel 11/27/2019
- UW News: Detailed PICture reveals how tooth enamel is strong enough to last a lifetime 09/26/2019
- Berkeley Lab: The Microstructure of a Parrotfish Tooth Contributes to Its Toughness 02/08/18
- ALS Highlight: Coral Exoskeleton Growth Begins Inside Living Tissue 11/29/17
- Newsweek: Where Does Sand Come From? Parrotfish Poop Makes White Beaches and Now Scientists Know How 11/16/17
- LiveScience: Humans Have Cracked the Secrets of Uncrackable Parrotfish Teeth 11/15/17
- X-Rays Reveal the Biting Truth About Parrotfish Teeth 11/15/17
- Why are parrotfish teeth tough enough to bite stony corals? 11/03/17
- Coral skeletons may resist the effects of acidifying oceans 08/28/17
- Institute Of Physics NanoTechWeb: Nature three-dimensionally prints coral skeletons 06/12/17
- Scientific American: Mother-of-Pearl Holds the Key to Historical Ocean Temperatures 12/22/16
- Aspen Institute Italia: Non c´è innovazione senza ricerca. Intervista a P.U.P.A. Gilbert 12/27/16
- Ocean temperatures faithfully recorded in mother-of-pearl 12/16/16
- Mother-of-pearl’s genesis identified in mineral’s transformation 10/20/15
- Nature: The Sea Animal So Tough It Eats Rocks For Breakfast 08/15/13
- LiveScience: Sea Squirt Holds Answer to 100-Year-Old Crystal Puzzle 04/25/13
- Vaterite: Crystal within a crystal helps resolve an old puzzle 04/25/13
- Science: Double Vision 04/01/13
- Le Monde, Les dents de l’oursin 02/02/13
- National Geographic: Best Science Pictures of 2012 Announced 02/01/13
- Winners of 10th Annual International Science & Technology Visualization Challenge Announced 02/01/13
- 2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 02/01/13
- UW-Madison physicist wins science image challenge 02/01/13
- ALS Science Briefs, Imaging the Formation of Sea Urchin Spicules 08/16/12
- Inside Science, Mother of Pearl Divulges Environment 06/19/12
- BBC: How mother-of-pearl can record ocean temperature 05/11/12
- ALS News Brief, Micro- and Nano-Crystal Orientations in Shells 04/12/12
- Inside UW Madison: 2nd Annual Cool Science Image Contest (image slideshow: CSI Contest 2012 Winners & Honorable Mentions) 03/22/12
- Chemical and Engineering News, Mollusk Shells Hint At Ancient Climes 02/20/12
- Mother of pearl tells a tale of ocean temperature, depth 02/16/12
- 2011 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award 04/20/11
- NSF Highlight: Sea Urchin Teeth Are Self-Sharpening
- Royal Society of Chemistry, Urchins bare their teeth in materials research 01/07/11
- National Geographic, Rock-Chewing Sea Urchins Have Self-Sharpening Teeth 12/28/10
- NSF News 12/22/10
- Ever-sharp urchin teeth may yield tools that never need honing 12/22/10
- New York Times, Exquisitely Tipped Teeth Let Sea Urchin Carve a Home From Stone 10/30/09
- Sea urchin yields a key secret of biomineralization 10/27/08
- Science, Beauty with Brawn 07/13/07
- Mother-of-pearl: Classic beauty and remarkable strength 07/02/07
- Radiotherapy Advance Points Way to Noninvasive Brain Cancer Treatment 01/01/06
- Microbe’s Trick Provides a Template for Willowy Crystals 03/16/04
- UW Scientist Gets “Knighted” by Her Native Italy 06/08/01
- Microscopy Expert Puts Cancer under Fierce New Light 08/23/00 (scroll to page 14)