Ari Requicha, LMR Founding Director, receives the USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017.
Ari Requicha is interviewed by Thais Luna for the Correio Brasiliensis, Brasilia, March 2, 2012 (in Portuguese).
Ari Requicha receives a Recognition Award for his contributions to the IEEE Nanotechnology Council on the Council’s 10th anniversary, August 2011.
Ari Requicha, LMR Founding Director, is elected to the National Academy of Engineering, USA, February 2011.
Ari Requicha, LMR Founding Director, receives the Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, August 2010.
Podcast interview of Ari Requicha by Sabine Hauert, “Robots: Nanosystems”, at www.robotpodcast.com, July 16, 2010.
B. Vicente, “Nanorobotica vai revolucionar saude mas nao para ja'”, Diario de Coimbra, Portugal, April 15, 2010 (in Portuguese). Interview with Ari Requicha following an IEEE Distinguished Lecture at the Portuguese IEEE Chapter. Similar material appeared on line at “Publico online”, Coimbra; RC Pharma; CoimbraDigital; Destak; MundoUniversitario; tvi24; and Universia.
Ari Requicha, LMR Founding Director, is named a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Nanotechnology Council for the years 2010-2011.
Communications of the ACM, “Medical Nanobots“, by K. L. Kroeker, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 19-20, September 2009.
La Vanguardia (Barcelona, Spain). Lluis Amiguet interviews Ari Requicha, “Lo mas grande esta en lo mas pequeno”, August 15, 2009 (in Spanish).
3cat24 (TV 3 Catalunya). Karma Peiro interviews Ari Requicha, “La nanotecnologia aconseguira predir las malalties i evitar-ne els simptomes” (on the web, in Catalan), May 2009.
Ari Requicha, LMR Founding Director, is elected a Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2008.
Ari Requicha, LMR Founding Director, receives the Pioneer Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for his work on programmable automation at the macro and nano scales, 2008.
Ari Requicha, LMR Founding Director, is elected a Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), 2007.
Portugal em Exame (Portuguese periodical), “Mentes Brilhantes” (Brilliant Minds), pp. 114-119, 2007.
Ari Requicha, LMR Founding Director, wins the first-ever Pierre Bezier Prize, for his (non-nanotech) work on geometric modelling and programmable automation, at the ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, Beijing, P. R. China, June 4-6, 2007.
Jimmy Ly, an LMR graduate student, wins first prize in the Science-as-Art contest at the Spring 2006 meeting of the Materials Research Society with an image of polypyrrole thin film.
Ari Requicha, LMR Director, wins the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Senior Research Award in the Spring of 2006, on the 100th anniversary of the School, for his work on nanorobotics.
Semanario Economico (Portuguese weekly), “Especial Inovacao” by Catarina Madeira, March 31, 2006.
Grande Reportagem (Portuguese weekly magazine), “A revolucao que se segue” (“The next revolution”), January 3, 2004.
Nature Materials, News and Views, J. R. Krenn, “Nanoparticle waveguides. Watching energy transfer“, April 2003.
Expresso (Portuguese newspaper), “Nanorobôs com dedo lusitano” (roughly, “Nanorobots with a Portuguese touch”), September 28, 2002. Extended coverage in www.janelanaweb.com.
Express News, University of Alberta,”Nanorobots are not smart… yet”, March 26, 2002.
Smalltimes, “USC researchers to build nanobots that will monitor water pollution”, January 16, 2002. Stories based on the same press release were carried by Associated Press and appeared in Wired (“Tiny bots to scour big blue ocean”, January 15, 2002), UniSci (“Swarms of tiny robots to monitor water pollution”, January 14, 2002), and elsewhere.
USC Chronicle, “Thinking big on a very small scale”, January 28, 2002.
L’Echo (Belgian newspaper), “Les atouts wallons en Californie”, June 2001 (on the occasion of an LMR briefing on nanotechnology to Minister Serge Kubla, Vice-President of Wallonia, and to representatives of the Belgian press).
Business Week, “It’s a nanoworld”, November 27, 2000.
Superinteressante (Brazilian magazine), “Revolução invisível”, November 2000.
Los Angeles Times, “Big promise in thinking small”, August 17, 2000.
Popular Science, “The incredible shrinking doctors”, July 2000.
Inside R&D (John Wiley & Sons), “Inside research: Laying the groundwork for nanoelectromechanical systems”, June 23, 2000.
Science Magazine’s Next Wave, “Nanotechnology panel”, October 2, 1998.
Optics and Photonic News, “USC researchers make advances in NEMS technology”, May 1998.
Voice of America, TV interview, 1998
USC Chronicle, “Scientific team pushes the nanotechnology frontier”, February 23, 1998.
Sensor Technology (John Wiley & Sons), “AFM lets you sense, push nanometer particles”, Vol. 13, No. 12, p. 3, December 1997.
