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6 VINSE members named 2023 NSF Graduate Student Research Fellows
Jun. 14, 2023—The National Science Foundation has selected 28 Vanderbilt students for its 2023 Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 6 of which are VINSE members. The NSF GRFP supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, STEM education and NSF-backed social science disciplines. Fellows receive a...
VINSE Faculty Shihong Lin and Ethan Lippmann Named 2023 Chancellor Faculty Fellows
Jun. 7, 2023—Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2023 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. “As we reflect on the 150th anniversary of our founding, we’re asking our university community to...
Caldwell collaboration wins prestigious Office of Naval Research MURI grant
Apr. 21, 2023—Josh Caldwell, director of the Interdisciplinary Material Sciences program and professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. The five-year grant, which provides up to $1.5 million in funding annually, will be shared among Vanderbilt University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota and Stanford University to...
VINSE faculty member Shihong Lin and graduate student Carlisle DeJulius were among those recognized at the Graduate School Honors Banquet
Apr. 20, 2023—Vice Provost for Graduate Education André Christie-Mizell honored outstanding graduate students and members of the graduate faculty at the inaugural Graduate School Honors Banquet on March 31, recognizing the 2023 recipients of the Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award and new awards to be presented annually. VINSE faculty member Shihong Lin and graduate student Carlisle DeJulius...
Provost commissions Women in STEM Initiative, Cynthia Reinhart-King Co-Chair
Apr. 12, 2023—A new Women in STEM Initiative will address the need for a larger and more skilled U.S. workforce in science, engineering and math by inspiring, supporting and mentoring young women to develop their fullest potential within those fields. Launched by the Office of the Provost, the initiative builds on Vanderbilt’s partnership with the STEMM Opportunity Alliance, which...
Vanderbilt’s Shihong Lin wins Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize
Apr. 10, 2023—Shihong Lin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and VINSE faculty member, has been awarded a Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Lin was honored alongside three other researchers. Shihong Lin (Vanderbilt University) The Huber Prize, named after former ASCE president Walter L. Huber, is given to researchers...
Innovative engineering method could help defang COVID-19 virus of its spike proteins, leading to new prevention options
Apr. 6, 2023—Two Vanderbilt engineering professors, including VINSE faculty member Mike King, could revolutionize the treatment of COVID-19 and related viral infections through research using nanotechnology to remove spike proteins from the viruses. Michael R. King, J. Lawrence Wilson Professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Zhenjiang Zhang, research assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, discuss...
Sokrates Pantelides Paper “Single-atom vibrational spectroscopy with chemical-bonding sensitivity” Published in Nature Materials
Mar. 28, 2023—Researchers from Vanderbilt University and University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made a significant advancement in understanding the correlation of the vibrational patterns of atoms at the level of chemical bonds in conducting materials silicon and graphene. Vibrational spectroscopy of substitutional Si impurities in graphene with different bonding configurations. (Image by UCAS) Atomic...
Douglas Adams Accepts Invitation to Join Springer Nature U.S. Advisory Council
Mar. 21, 2023—Douglas Adams, vice dean of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering and associate provost in the Office of Research and Innovation, has been named a member of the Springer Nature U.S. Research Advisory Council. Springer Nature is an academic publishing company that includes leading publications such as the Nature portfolio journals and Scientific American. Adams will attend the USRAC’s annual meeting at Nature’s New...
Dissertation Defense: Guanyu Lu, Mechanical Engineering
Feb. 8, 2023—DISSERTATION DEFENSE Guanyu Lu, Mechanical Engineering *under the direction of Dr. Josh Caldwell “Phonon Polaritons for Engineering Thermal Emission and Heat Transfer” 03.01.23 | 1:00pm | Buttrick Hall 101 The field of nanophotonics is based on the confinement of electromagnetic energy to length scales an order of magnitude shorter than that of the free-space photon wavelength....