Dr. Morse of UCSB received his B.A. from Harvard and Ph.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He's been awarded a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and a Faculty Research Award from the American Cancer Society. He was elected a Regents Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution; and elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His students, including noted nanoscientist, Angela Belcher, have received international recognition. Scientific American named him one of 50 leading technology pioneers of 2006 for his research on biologically inspired routes to nanostructured semiconductor thin films. He was honored as the 7th Kelly Lecturer in Materials and Chemistry by Cambridge and as the 3M Lecturer in Chemistry and Materials by the University of Vancouver and appointed Visiting Professor of Bio-Nano-Electronics at Toyo University.