At the 21st Annual Symposium of the Laboratory for Surface Modification, graduate student Daniel J. Haders, working with Professor Richard E. Riman, won the prize for best student talk: �Deposition of crystallographically tunable hydroxyapatite films by TEP/EDTA doubly regulated hydrothermal crystallization for biomedical applications.� In addition, graduate student Norman Lapin working with Professor Yves Chabal, received the award for best student poster: �Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy investigation of the attachment between aminosilane, biotin and streptavidin at silicon oxide surfaces.�