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VINSE New Faculty Member Anita Disney explores role of neurotransmitters in attention
Sep. 30, 2014—When Anita Disney was growing up in Adelaide, Australia, friends and family assumed she would become a scientist. After all, her father was a biologist and one of the founding faculty members of Flinders University. But in what she admits may have been a bit of youthful rebellion, Disney gained admission to a performing arts magnet...
‘Queen of Carbon’ Mildred Dresselhaus graces VINSE Colloquium Series
Sep. 29, 2014—Acclaimed MIT Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Emerita, Mildred Dresselhaus, whose decades of research earned her the nickname Queen of Carbon, will explain at the next VINSE Colloquium how placing molecules on a graphene substrate enhances their Raman spectral signal. KEEP READING>
New facility devoted to multiscale modeling opens on Music Row
Sep. 26, 2014—Vanderbilt University School of Engineering has established a unique research facility focusing on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. MuMS is home to four faculty members and their research groups. An Open House and inaugural MuMS Seminar Oct. 9 will celebrate the recent creation of the space located on Nashville’s historic Music Row. Multiscale modeling involves the...
VINSE Faculty Member Cary Pint named to ’20 under 40′ by American Society for Engineering Education
Sep. 23, 2014—Cary Pint, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory at Vanderbilt University, was named to the American Society for Engineering Education’s Top 20 Under 40 last week. KEEP READING »
Bolotin and McCabe receive VINSE Distinguished Service Awards
Aug. 29, 2014—Kirill Bolotin and Clare McCabe were each awarded a VINSE Distinguished Service Award at the VINSE fall faculty celebration. Kirill was recognized for his vision and creation of the VINSE summer nanoseminar series. Clare was recognized for her continued leadership and commitment to the VINSE REU.
Craig Duvall receives NSF Early Career Award
Aug. 28, 2014—Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Craig L. Duvall has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. The five-year, $500,000 grant – Polythioketal Hydrogel For SiRNA-Enhanced Regenerative Cell Therapies – will allow Duvall to continue research on advanced drug delivery systems designed to enhance the performance of stem cell therapies for use in...
Three researchers receive EAGER awards
Aug. 22, 2014—Three Vanderbilt researchers have received an award designed to better understand how complex behaviors emerge from activity on brain circuitry as part of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative. Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Donna Webb, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Deyu Li and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Yaqiong Xu received the award, which is for...
Professor touts faster, cheaper way to test for explosives
Jul. 28, 2014—A Vanderbilt University professor has come up with a faster and less expensive way to test for explosives residue on surfaces. Prof. Sharon Weiss has modified white gold leaf paper so that its surface provides signal amplification of 100 million times – so that a laser and detector to identify the chemical molecules of whatever...
2014 Summer Nanoseminar Series
May. 30, 2014—Organized by: J. Scott Niezgoda WHAT IS VINSE SUMMER “NANOSEMINAR”? A seminar series in VINSE, 9 amazingly interesting seminars have been scheduled for this summer. During each seminar, two students/post-docs from different research groups will talk about their projects dealing with nanofabrication and science/technology as related to it. The focus of the seminar is...
Liberating devices from their power cords
May. 19, 2014—Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources. This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy directly into a wide range of products, such as a laptop whose casing serves as its battery,...