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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....
Mona Ebrish named senior member of the IEEE
Jan. 18, 2023—Vanderbilt engineering professor Mona Ebrish has been designated a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the highest professional grade of the IEEE. Mona Ebrish Prior to joining the Vanderbilt faculty in January 2023 as an assistant professor electrical and computer engineering, Ebrish was a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington,...
Carlos Silvera Batista wins NSF CAREER Award
Jan. 10, 2023—Congratulations to VINSE faculty member Carlos Silvera Batista! Batista has won the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project “Colloidal Dynamics under Electrodiffusiophoresis.” The prestigious NSF CAREER award is a five year grant. Batista’s begins on February 1, 2023, and will run through 2028. Batista, an assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, joined...
Graduate Student Feature: Tian Zhu
Jan. 5, 2023—Tian Zhu, 5th year Chemical and Biomedical Engineering graduate student in the Rafat Lab While radiation therapy (RT) is an efficient treatment for patients with triple negative breast cancer, patients continue to experience recurrence after RT. The extracellular matrix (ECM) in the tumor microenvironment plays a major role in tumor progression and metastasis. ECM structure,...
Faculty Research Highlight: De-en Jiang
Jan. 5, 2023—Professor of Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Professor of Department of Chemistry Energy-efficient chemical transformations and separations are key to solving our society’s many issues toward substantiality. The long-term goal of the Jiang Research Group is to achieve data-driven design and discovery of functional materials and molecules for a sustainable society. By leveraging great...
Faculty Research Highlight: Marjan Rafat
Jan. 5, 2023—Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering The Rafat Lab combines engineering and cancer biology concepts to examine the mechanisms driving tumor recurrence and metastasis. We study the relationship between tumor cells, normal tissues, and the immune system as a means of understanding the microenvironment to determine how each component contributes to metastasis and relapse...
Undergraduate Research Feature: Alex Stoneman
Jan. 5, 2023—Alex Stoneman, senior Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Chemistry undergraduate student in the Lang lab T-cells are key parts of the mammalian immune response, and T-cell receptors (TCRs) help them recognize their foreign targets. Previous lab work has shown that TCRs act as mechanosenors; piconewton-scale forces facilitate their extremely specific interactions with antigens. The lab...
Graduate Student Research Highlight: Marsalas Whitaker
Jan. 5, 2023—Marsalas Whitaker, 2nd year Biomedical Engineering graduate student in the Giorgio Lab The level of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activation is reflected in subpopulations of extracellular vesicles (EVs) originating from cancerous tissue that contain EGFR. Such EVs can be assessed using methods like immunoblots and flow cytometry. One pitfall of current EV purification techniques is reliance...
VINSE Community Picnic
Jan. 5, 2023—Join us for an afternoon of games, food, drink, and fun! Family and friends are welcome (encouraged!) to attend. Please RSVP here. When: April 15 from 11:00-1:00 | Egg Toss Competition at 11:30 | Tug-O-War starts at noon What: Bubble soccer, corn hole, tug-o-war, egg toss, trivia, and more!! Raffles and Prizes What (will there be to eat?): Burgers, chicken...