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Associate Professor of Physics Kalman Varga has been elected fellow of the American Physical Society.
Oct. 18, 2016—Stevenson Professor of Physics Keivan Stassun and Associate Professor of Physics Kalman Varga have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society. The fellowship is considered a prestigious recognition from their professional peers. The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise, such as outstanding physics research, important applications of physics, leadership in...
17th Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum – NanoDay! 10/19/16 – Keynote Speaker – Mark Saltzman
Sep. 14, 2016—17th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Wednesday, October 19, 2016 A yearly forum for faculty, postdocs, and students engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research. STUDENT LIFE CENTER 1:00 – 1:10 Welcome Sandra Rosenthal, Director of VINSE 1:10 – 1:20 New Tool in VINSE: Helios FIB SEM Anthony Hmelo, VINSE 1:20 – 1:40 Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopies to...
Duvall earns spot on CMBE journal’s 2016 Young Investigators list
Aug. 19, 2016—Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, a journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society, has named Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of Graduate Recruiting in Biomedical Engineering Craig Duvall to its third annual list of Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Selection was a competitive process that began with nominations and included biosketches and abstracts...
2016 NanoDay! T-shirt design competition underway
Aug. 17, 2016—Graduate Student NanoDay T-Shirt Design Competition! Goal: Create an attractive T-shirt design representing NanoDay and the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Winning design will receive a cash prize of $300.00 The design must be exclusively your own and cannot include logos and trademark images You can use any t-shirt color in your design...
Using nanotechnology to give fuel cells more oomph
Aug. 8, 2016—At the same time Honda and Toyota are introducing fuel cell cars to the U.S. market, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University, Nissan North America and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to create a new technology designed to give fuel cells more oomph. The project is part of a $13 million Department...
2016 Summer Nanoseminar Schedule
May. 12, 2016—The VINSE summer nanoseminar series provides an opportunity for graduate students or post-docs to share their current research with the larger VINSE community to foster discussion and collaboration. Each seminar will consist of 2 talks of 15-20 minutes each with 10-15 minutes of questions. The goal of these talks is to discuss and challenge the...
Advance in creating atomically thin electronic and optical devices
Apr. 15, 2016—A future generation of atomically thin optoelectronics devices, including transistors, photodetectors and solar cells, is a step closer because of an advance in the art of epitaxy made by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with an assist from a pair of Vanderbilt physicists. Epitaxy, the process of growing layers of crystalline film on...
John Wilson receives NSF Career Award
Apr. 5, 2016—John T. Wilson, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award. The five-year, $500,000 grant – Engineering Polymeric Nanomaterials for Programming Innate Immunity – will allow Wilson to develop new synthetic materials for “encoding” immunological messages and tightly regulating their delivery to the organs, cells,...
Alice Leach (IMS graduate student) part of team MERLIN: Winners of the 2016 TechVenture Challenge
Apr. 1, 2016—Wednesday saw the completion of yet another successful TechVenture Challenge. After six years, we are still encouraged that each year the presentations continue to improve and be of higher quality. This can be attributed not only to the student teams and their hard work, but also to the student organizers who improve upon the competition...
24 high schools from 15 Middle TN counties are participating in the VINSE Field Trip in Spring 2016
Mar. 11, 2016—24 High Schools representing 15 Middle TN counties are participating in the Spring 2016 VINSE high school field trip program. Groups of up to 20 from each school will to visit our facilities, perform an experiment, utilize our electron microscope, and learn about nanotechnology and energy during a day visit. Spring 2016 Participating Schools: Big Picture...