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Meet Our Graduates: Kody Wolfe
Aug. 11, 2021—Kody Wolfe earned his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science at Vanderbilt University in August 2021 under the supervision of Dr. G. Kane Jennings and Dr. David Cliffel. Kody studied electron transfer between biomolecules and electrode materials with an emphasis on using the Photosystem I (PSI) protein complex, which can be extracted from plants and algae,...
VINSE NSF-REU Poster Session Winners
Aug. 5, 2021—Faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at Vanderbilt and partner institutions attended the 2021 VINSE NSF REU Summer Research Poster on Thursday, August 5, 2021. Posters were evaluated by both a panel of judges and the virtual poster session attendees for an opportunity to win travel grants to support the cost of presenting...
IMS students Nicole Moehring & Kellen Arnold receive Best Student Presentation at ORNL
Aug. 3, 2021—Nicole Moehring and Kellen Arnold received “Best Student Presentation” award at the virtual poster session for the 2021 Joint Nanoscience and Neutron Scattering User Meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In addition to a cash prize both Nicole and Kellen have been invited to present their work at the meeting on August 10th. The User...
Meet Our Graduates: Hannah Hickman
Aug. 1, 2021—Hannah Hickman received her B.A. in Physics in 2021 from Vanderbilt University. As an undergraduate, Hannah was on the VINSE Technical Crew where she learned valuable skills in photolithography, etching, deposition, and metrology. She used these skills to develop VINSE processes and operating procedures applicable to research in microfluidics, and her focus was designing a 3-layered quake...
Spotlight Publication: “Filterless Nondispersive Infrared Sensing Using Narrowband Infrared Emitting Metamaterials” in ACS Photonics
Aug. 1, 2021—“Filterless Nondispersive Infrared Sensing Using Narrowband Infrared Emitting Metamaterials” published in ACS Photonics has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. About the author: Alyssa was an VINSE NSF REU fellow studying in the Caldwell Lab in 2019. In recently published work, she and her first co-author, Ryan Nolen, a former Ph.D. student working in...
Meet Our Graduates: Mahmud Reaz
Jul. 27, 2021—Mahmud Reaz earned his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program at Vanderbilt University in July 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Ron Schrimpf . Mahmud studied the fabrication, characterization, and simulation of materials and devices from a reliability standpoint. His research empowered reliability analysis of the semiconductor devices, ICs, components, and SOCs through combining device design and characterization data with...
Rosenthal guest columnist for the Tennessean: Mental illness is more common than most people realize
Jul. 26, 2021—Click here to read column
Meet Our Graduates: Tengfei Cao
Jul. 21, 2021—Tengfei Cao earned his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science in April 2021 under the direction of Dr. Sharon Weiss. Tengfei investigated the use of nanoscale porous silicon-based label-free optical biosensors towards point-of-care diagnostics applications, with the goal of overcoming challenges that often prevent benchtop lab instruments from being adapted to simple biosensors that can be operated...
VINSE Summer Research Poster Session
Jul. 21, 2021—The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering will host an online Summer Research Poster Session on Thursday, August 5 from 10am-12pm. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Meet Our Graduates: Andrew Tonigan
Jul. 20, 2021—Drew Tonigan received his Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program at Vanderbilt University program, working with Ron Schrimpf and the team at the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics (ISDE). Drew’s research examined one of the most important reliability challenges for advanced electronics: errors produced in digital circuits by energetic particles. In particular, he...