‘VINSE Faculty News’
Cynthia Reinhart-King receives $1M W. M. Keck Foundation Grant
Jul. 15, 2020—A bold engineering approach by a Vanderbilt University researcher to sort breast cancer cells based on their behavior first has produced compelling data that show less migratory cells create more metastases, contradicting the prevailing hypothesis on how cancer spreads. Expanding this ambitious research by Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, to other highly metastatic and...
Florence Sanchez and Jason Valentine awarded VU Discovery Grants
Jul. 14, 2020—Two VINSE faculty received 2020 Discovery Grants, which are two-year awards of up to $25,000 each year for pilot or feasibility studies in areas with the potential to make significant breakthroughs. Florence Sanchez, professor of civil and environmental engineering, for Storing energy in 3D printed functionally graded concrete structures; Jason Valentine, associate professor of mechanical engineering,...
Doug Adams to lead TIPs-funded, soldier-inspired innovation hub
Jul. 14, 2020—A new innovation incubator will amplify existing collaborations among researchers and soldiers, building on Vanderbilt’s partnership agreement with Army Futures Command. The project, Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator for Discovering Research-Based Solutions, is one of six cross-disciplinary programs to be funded by Vanderbilt’s Trans-Institutional Programs (TIPs) initiative, a hallmark of the university’s Academic Strategic Plan. The university announced...
Josh Caldwell is a 2020 Materials Research Society Fellow
Jul. 8, 2020—Vanderbilt professor Joshua D. Caldwell has been selected as a 2020 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the society’s spring meeting in Phoenix in April. Caldwell, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has merged his prior work in wide band gap semiconductor materials with his efforts in nanophotonics, leading to his...
Kelsey Hatzell wins Sloan Research Fellowship award
Jul. 8, 2020—Kelsey Hatzell, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, an honor given annually to the brightest researchers early in their careers. “To receive a Sloan Research Fellowship is to be told by your fellow scientists that you stand out among your peers,” said foundation president Adam F. Falk in an...
Piran Kidambi wins Projects in Green Energy Technology fellowship from the Electrochemical Society and Toyota Motors
Jul. 1, 2020—The Electrochemical Society and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Announce 2020-2021 Fellowship Winners for Projects in Green Energy Technology Pennington, NJ – Prof. Dr. Shoji Hall, Prof. Dr. Piran Ravichandran Kidambi, and Dr. Haegyeom Kim have been awarded the 2020-2021 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships. This is the sixth year that the...
VINSE researchers developed a promising treatment for breast cancer metastasis
Jun. 16, 2020—Updated June 13, 2020 (Precision Vaccinations)With a surprisingly simple approach in which cancer cells are first grown, ruptured and converted into nanoparticles, and then used as a vaccine, Vanderbilt University researchers say they have developed what appears to be a promising treatment for breast cancer metastasis. Metastasis is the last stage of cancer, responsible for...
Caldwell & Hatzell are inaugural Flowers Family Faculty Fellows in Engineering
Apr. 29, 2020—Mechanical engineering professors Joshua Caldwell and Kelsey Hatzell are inaugural recipients of Flowers Family faculty awards. Caldwell is the Flowers Family Chancellor Faculty Fellow in Engineering. Hatzell is the Flowers Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Engineering. The awards target professors who have shown a strong evidence of scientific accomplishment early in their careers and are...
VINSE deputy director featured in Nature Photonics
Apr. 29, 2020—A research team of Vanderbilt engineers that includes a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated a new ultrathin filter, based on metamaterials, that allows for analog optical image processing. Their work, Flat Optics for Image Differentiation, appears today in the scientific journal, Nature Photonics. While digital image processing has become the prevailing technique in a...
Janet Macdonald Promoted to Associate Professor
Apr. 22, 2020—Congratulations are in order for Janet Macdonald on her promotion to Associate Professor of Chemistry with tenure. The Macdonald group is a nanoparticle synthesis group in the Department of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University. Janet and her students contribute fundamental knowledge to problems in green energy and catalysis. Most recently Janet was featured along with the...