Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond (fourth from left) was the guest speaker at the Nanofrontiers Symposium co-sponsored by UMSL. From left, Jimmy Liu, director of Center for Nanoscience at UMSL; Robert Duncan, vice chancellor for research at University of Missouri–Columbia; Kendra Perry, director of government and business relations, Center for Nanoscience at UMSL; Bond; Shubhra Gangopadhyay, co-director of the International Center for Nano/Micro Systems and Nanotechnology at UMC; Rob Monsees, executive director at NanoTechnology Enterprise Consortium; Tom George, chancellor of UMSL, Nasser Arshadi, vice provost for research at UMSL; George Gokel, associate director of Center for Nanoscience at UMSL; Don Qin, site director for the National Science Foundation National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network at WUSTL; Ralph S. Quatrano, dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at WUSTL and Kattesh V. Katti, director of University of Missouri Cancer Nanotechnology Platform at UMC.