‘NanoDay’
VINSE Best Collaborative Paper Awardees Attend A Celebratory Dinner
Mar. 14, 2024—Recently, Andrey Shults, Guanyu Lu, Josh Caldwell and Janet Macdonald celebrated their winning 2023 VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award. The paper has contributions from two VINSE groups from different departments – the Macdonald group in Chemistry and the Caldwell group in Mechanical Engineering. The authors report on colloidal chemistry synthesis and characterization that provides key...
24rd Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum, NanoDay! 11/22/24
Jan. 24, 2024—A yearly forum for members of the VINSE community engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research. Friday, November 22, 2024 11:30 – 6:00 PM Student Life Center Keynote Speaker Xiaoqing Pan is an internationally recognized materials scientist and electron microscopy expert due to his pioneering development and applications of novel transmission electron microscopy (TEM) methods for...
2023 Nanoday! Poster Award Winners
Dec. 14, 2023—Congratulations to the 2023 NanoDay! poster competition winners! The 23rd annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum attracted more than 250 registered attendees. In total 66 posters were presented during the event, including 3 high school students from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt or Research Experience for High School Students (REHSS) programs. The winners are listed below. 1st Place: Theodore Anyika,...
2023 VINSE NanoDay! Jacket Drawing Winners
Dec. 13, 2023—Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 NanoDay! jacket drawing! This is the fourth year that attendees had the opportunity to win a VINSE jacket, and it has quickly become a highly anticipated part of the event. Check out this year’s winners below! De-en Jiang (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) Adam Dodson (Physics and Astronomy) Andrew...
2023 NanoDay t-shirt design winner: Parker Friedli
Dec. 13, 2023—Congratulations to Parker Friedli, winner of the 2023 NanoDay! t-shirt design competition. Parker Friedli is a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Digital Fabrication. She joined VINSE as a tech crew in the Fall of 2023. The winning designer receives a $300 cash prize. Prior winners: 2022 – Zezhou Yang 2021 –...
23rd Annual NanoDay! Poster Competition win up to $500
Sep. 29, 2023—$500 1st place (1 award) | $250 2nd place (2 awards) | $100 3rd place (3 awards) The 23rd Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum will be held on December 8, 2023. This forum brings together Vanderbilt scientists and engineers working in nanoscience and nanotechnology for presentations and discussions. The broader VINSE research program is represented in the poster...
23rd Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum, NanoDay! 12/8/23
Sep. 29, 2023—A yearly forum for members of the VINSE community engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research. Registration closed Schedule Student Life Center 11:30 LUNCH begins 12:00 POSTER SESSION 2:00 Opening Remarks Dr. Sharon M. Weiss 2:20 Modeling the irradiated breast microenvironment to evaluate tumor and immune cell interactions Dr. Marjan Rafat 2:40 Wireless Miniature Robots for Minimally Invasive Medical Operations Dr. Xiaoguang Dong 3:00 GaN...
NanoDay! T-Shirt Design Competition
Aug. 30, 2023—Goal: Create an attractive t-shirt design representing NanoDay! and VINSE. The winning design will receive a $300 cash prize. The design must be exclusively your own and cannot include logos and trademark images You can use any t-shirt color in your design JPEG format (at least 300 dpi) No limits to number of colors in...
Michael J. Sailor to give keynote lecture at the 23rd annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum
Apr. 11, 2023—VINSE is excited to announce that Dr. Michael J. Sailor from the University of California, San Diego will give the keynote lecture “Nanostructured Silicon as a Therapeutic Tool” at the 23rd annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum on December 8, 2023. Michael J. Sailor is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, Director of the...
VINSE NanoDay! Jacket Drawing Winners
Nov. 7, 2022—Congratulations to the winners of the NanoDay! jacket drawing! This is the third year that registered attendees had the opportunity to win a VINSE jacket, and it has quickly become a highly anticipated part of the event. Check out the winners below! Katja Diaz-Granados Madeleine Fort Chloe Frame Matthew Galazzo Blaise Kimmel Paul Laibinis Weifan...