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Prof. Ndukaife wins Best and Brightest: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award!

Oct. 1, 2023—Ndukaife wins distinguished Office of Naval Research Award  

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Congratulations to Guodong on winning Best Poster Award at SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference

Sep. 18, 2023—Guodong’s poster is entitled: “High performance sensor based on bound states in the continuum (BIC)”

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Professor Ndukaife is the recipient of the 2023 Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize!

Aug. 16, 2023—Ndukaife was recognized for For unwavering commitment to teaching, mentoring, and community service by fostering the growth and development of students and early-career professionals within his local community and in Africa.

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Prof. Ndukaife wins NIH MIRA R35 Outstanding Investigator Award at NIGMS

Aug. 9, 2023—https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2023/08/04/justus-ndukaife-wins-1-9m-from-national-institutes-of-health-to-build-on-foundational-knowledge-of-nanoscale-cellular-particles/

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Our latest paper on Anapole-assisted optical trapping appears in Nano Letters!

Jul. 31, 2023—https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02014  

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Our article on merging metasurfaces with microfluidics appears in Nature Nanotechnology!

Jan. 23, 2023—Check out the press release here: https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2022/vanderbilt-electrical-engineering-professor-publishes-paper-on-merging-metasurfaces-with-microfluidics/  

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Professor Ndukaife wins the prestigious NSF CAREER Award!

Mar. 30, 2022—The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

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Professor Ndukaife receives Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research!

Aug. 26, 2021—https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/08/30/thirteen-faculty-members-honored-at-fall-faculty-assembly/  

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Our latest paper on dynamic manipulation of single nanodiamonds with NV center appears in Nano Letters!

Jun. 11, 2021—https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00357    

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Congrats to Sen Yang for winning 3rd place prize at the VINSE Nano-day presentation

Nov. 4, 2020—Sen’s project is on “Particle trapping in symmetry-breaking system”

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