Meredith Betterton received an Associate Professor Growth Grant through the University of Colorado's LEAP program to partially fund a stage-top rapid temperature controller for microscopy.
Garrek Stemo received a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) award and joined the group. His project title is “Generation of active stresses in microtubule-motor mixtures”.
Meredith Betterton was awarded a National Science Foundation grant DMR 1551095, "EAGER: Biophysical theory of mitotic spindle length instability and self assembly."