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Professor Rosenthal goes to Washington
May. 13, 2011—Last Wednesday, Sandra Rosenthal and Scott Niezgoda accepted the invitation of Christina West, Vanderbilt’s assistant vice chancellor for federal relations, to represent Vanderbilt at the Coalition for National Science Funding’s Capitol Hill day and exhibition. Rosenthal is the Jack and Pamela Eagan Professor of Chemistry and director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and...
Weiss to join Defense Science Study Group
May. 6, 2011—Sharon Weiss, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has been accepted into the 2012-2013 class of the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG). The DSSG is a program of education and study that introduces selected scientists and engineering professors to the challenges facing national security and encourages them to apply their talents to these issues either as...
Nanotechnologists take lessons from nature
Apr. 28, 2011—The simple E. coli bacterium shown can compute 1,000 times faster than the most powerful computer chip, its memory density is 100 million times higher and it needs 100 millionth the power to operate. (Jenni Ohnstad / Vanderbilt University) It’s common knowledge that the perfect is the enemy of the good, but in the nanoscale...
David Wright named Kavi Fellow in Frontiers of Science
Apr. 25, 2011—David Wright has been named a Kavli Fellow in the Frontiers of Science for 2011. Kavli fellows are selected by the advisory board of the Kavli Foundation, members of the National Academy of Sciences and organizers of the Kavli/National Academy of Sciences Frontiers in Science Symposia series. David presented his work, Biological and Biomimetic Materials:...
VINSE Director Sandra Rosenthal – named Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry
Apr. 6, 2011—Eleven faculty members who have been named to endowed chairs were praised for their outstanding academic achievements during a celebration at the Student Life Center. “We are a place that values discovery, creativity, great patient care and service in affairs, said Richard McCarty, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. ”And it’s also the transfer...
Kirill Bolotin receives NSF Career Award
Mar. 21, 2011—Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Physics Kirill Bolotin has received a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation. According to the National Science Foundation, CAREER awards support exceptionally promising college and university junior faculty who are committed to the integration of research and education and are likely to become the academic leaders...
James Dickerson receives NSF Career Award
Feb. 15, 2011—James Dickerson, who came to Vanderbilt in 2004, has pioneered methods for making freestanding, transportable films exclusively from nanoparticles. To do so he has adapted a commercial process called electrophoretic deposition (EPD) that can fabricate large, flexible and self-supporting sheets out of almost any type of nanomaterial. They represent a totally new class of materials...
Hak-Joon Sung receives NSF Career Award
Feb. 15, 2011—Hak-Joon Sung’s research explores a new approach to regenerate injured small blood vessels as well as create a new tool box for minimally invasive surgery. He will be evaluating the effectiveness of an injectable vascular patch made of a smart biomaterial whose shape, size and thickness can be customized to fit even tiny damaged blood...
ARRA grant allows update of nanoscience institute’s air-handling equipment
Oct. 13, 2010— If there is one thing that nanoscientists need above all else to study the behavior of materials and create devices at the scale of individual atoms, it is an ultra-clean environment. The fresh air that we breathe contains something like one million microscopic particles in a cubic foot, more than enough to wreak havoc with...
Sokrates Pantelides named University Distinguised Professor of Physics and Engineering
Sep. 30, 2010—Sokrates Pantelides, William A. & Nancy F. McMinn Professor of Physics and professor of electrical engineering, has been named a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering. A reception in his honor was hosted by Dean of Arts and Science Carolyn Dever and Dean of the School of Engineering Kenneth F. Galloway at the University...