February, 2012
VINSE member wins Sloan research fellowship
Feb. 28, 2012—Physicist Kirill Bolotin has won a two-year, $50,000 research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. He is one of 126 researchers from 51 different colleges and universities in the United States selected to receive the Foundation’s research fellowship this year. Bolotin’s research is centered on the recently discovered material called graphene, a single atomic layer...
Pantelides is 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow
Feb. 10, 2012—Vanderbilt professor Sokrates T. Pantelides has been selected as a 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the MRS spring meeting in San Francisco in April. Pantelides is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, the William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of Physics and a professor of...
Peter Cummings appointed to two NSF advisory boards
Feb. 2, 2012—eter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Principal Scientist of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for the Engineering Directorate and to the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. The appointments are for three years. The Advisory...