Videos Directional self-locomotion of active droplets enabled by nematic environment Control of microswimmers by spiral nematic vortices: Transition from individual to collective motion and contraction, expansion, and stable circulation of bacterial swirls Polar jets of swimming bacteria condensed by a patterned liquid crystal Dynamic topography of thermoresponsive liquid crystal elastomer coatings on heating and cooling cycles Kent State's Liquid Crystal Institute makes advances in devices Optical cloaking of a metallic wire by dielectrophoretic assembly of gold nanorods Liquid crystal enabled electrophoresis of two glass spheres in a nematic