Several research projects pursuing the development of carbon nanodevices for sensor, actuator, and nanoelectronics applications in the labs of Professor EH Yang (Mechanical Engineering) and collaborators Stefan Strauf (Physics) and Frank Fisher (Mech Eng) were highlighted in an SPIE Newsroom story. Professor Yang also gave an invited talk on the topic at the recent SPIE Defense and Security Symposium on Micro and Nanotechnologies for Defense and Security in Orlando.