April 22, 2022

Brennan Watts, a fourth-year doctoral student, looks through a microscope at a checkerboard-patterned hydrogel, with Stephen Morin, Associate Professor of chemistry. Watts is first author on a paper he and Morin published in May on their research on creating hydrogels that can act similarly to cephalopod skin, with flexible, stretchable, and color- and pattern-changing capabilities. June 4, 2025. Photo by Liz McCue / University Communication and Marketing.