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From left: The "GeckskinTM" team, Al Crosby, Dan King, Michael Bartlett, Duncan J Irschick. Right: a 100 sq cm piece of "Geckskin" holding 297 lbs on glass

-The invention of GeckskinTM named as a top five Science Breakthrough for 2012 by CNN

-GeckskinTM featured on the new UMASS Amherst video "Innovation and Impact"

-Duncan Irschick gave a TED talk at the Sorbonne University in Paris on November 8, 2012. His talk can be viewed here

-"GeckskinTM" is inspired by gecko feet and uses synthetic "tendon", "skin" and "pad" to generate unparalleled adhesion

-Read about GeckskinTM in Wired magazine and the Daily Mail, listen to a podcast on NPR, or watch it used to hang a 42-inch screen TV on a sheet of glass

-Al Crosby and Duncan J Irschick were awarded a $25,000 CVIP grant to develop the Geckskin technology for commercialization

-Duncan Irschick, Al Crosby and Walter Federle were awarded a $900,000 grant from the Human Frontiers Science Program to examine scaling of adhesion from insects to lizards

-Check out the recent sections about our work on rapid evolution in island lizards from Carl Zimmers new book "The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution"" and Richard Dawkin's bestseller "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution"

-Duncan Irschick was honored as a Fullbright Specialist! This allows countries to invite him to visit and teach techniques in functional morphology and behavioral ecology

  The race to develop a gecko-like adhesive Duncan Irschick gecko discovery  
       
     
  The Invention of GeckskinTM The Science behind GeckskinTM  
 

Studying Tiger Shark morphology with the RJD Dunlap shark gradaute program and Neil Hammerschlag from Jim Abernathy's Scuba Adventures