Alesha Harris, a fifth-year graduate student working in Dr. Petros' lab, won an Outstanding Young Scholar Award (sponsored by ACS Publications, ACS Nano, and Nano Letters) for an oral presentation of her work titled, "Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Releasing Polymer Nanoparticles," presented in the Future Scientists Forum at Nanotoxicology 2012 held in Bejing, China September 5-7th.