On December 8, 2011, the IGERT Project officers from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Melur Ramasubramanian and Dr. Carole Stoel, visited CUbiC and were given a demonstration of different projects in the lab. Representative Tom Forese visited CUbiC on November 28th, and was taken through the CUbiC tour. The famous science fiction author, Neal Stephenson, also visited CUbiC in June, 2011.