April 2006, page 84Nicholas
A. Peppas, Fletcher S. Pratt Chair of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering; director of
the Laboratory for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Bionanotechnology, and Molecular Recognition;
and director of the NSF program on cellular and molecular imaging for diagnostics and therapeutics,
all at the University of Texas at Austin, is among the new members elected this year to the National
Academy of Engineering.