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Congrats to Katja!
Aug. 13, 2024—Congratulations to Katja Diaz-Granados for successfully defending her dissertation!
David Flores wins best poster award for VINSE REU
Aug. 2, 2024—David Flores, an NSF VINSE REU student from Penn State, won best poster award at the end of the season poster award! Congrats to David! Thank you to his two exceptional mentors John Buchner and Saurabh Dixit!!! That makes 5 years in a row for the Caldwell group!!!
Caldwell group attended 2024 Gordon Conference on plasmonics
Jul. 12, 2024—Had a great week at the 2024 Gordon Conference on plasmonics! Alumni and current students joined and really showed off the amazing students and postdocs!!! Even had time for a Caldwell group hike to a water fall!
Congrats to Ryan Kowalski! 2nd place poster at BNW2024!
Jun. 7, 2024—Ryan was awarded 2nd place for his poster at the hBN Workshop in Sydney! Well deserved!!! Excellent work Ryan!
Boron Nitride Workshop 2024 (BNW 2024), Sydney
Jun. 7, 2024—Josh Caldwell is one the organizers for the Boron Nitride Workshop. This series is dedicated entirely to boron nitride, and the inaugural meeting was held in Montpellier in 2023 (https://bnw2023.sciencesconf.org/). Over the last several years the BN community has grown immensely, and BN has become a material of choice for applications spanning electronics, polaritonics, lighting,...
Congrats to Josh Caldwell! 2024 School of Engineering Interdisciplinary Research Award!
May. 16, 2024—Josh Caldwell, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Vanderbilt’s Interdisciplinary Materials Science (IMS) graduate program, was honored with the Interdisciplinary Research Award for successfully leading interdisciplinary projects and integrating different fields of study to address complex research questions.
Luke Kim wins Materials & Advanced Devices award at ME Senior reception
May. 13, 2024—Congrats Luke! The Materials & Advanced Devices Award is presented to an Outstanding Senior showing the most promise in the study and pursuit of Materials and Advanced Devices Engineering.
Congrats to Youngji and Ethan! MRS Spring Meeting Award winners
Apr. 29, 2024—Congrats to Postdoc Youngji Kim and former VINSE REU Ethan Ray. They received poster awards at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle. Youngji won the ‘Best Poster Award for Symposium EL08 in 2024 MRS Spring Meeting’ for the poster titled “Configurationally Tunable Mie, Plasmonic and Diffractive Structural Colors in a Single Design”. This poster...
Emma Bartelsen and Trey Long have accepted NREIP positions
Mar. 7, 2024—Emma Bartelsen and Trey Long have accepted NREIP positions working under Dr. Jeremy Robinson at NRL in Washington, DC this summer. This will involve upgrading hardware and performing programing work to automate 2D material identification and transfer. This involves identifying the orientation of the flake facets, aligning with an underlying sample to orient the flakes...
Nanoscale Horizons HOT Papers designation
Feb. 15, 2024—“Role of carboxylates in the phase determination of metal sulfide nanoparticles” was selected by the Editors as a 2024 Nanoscale Horizons HOT article.