More than 175 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at Vanderbilt attended the 21st annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum (“NanoDay!”) on November 19th. 51 posters were submitted in the 2021 student poster competition and the winners are:
1st Place – $500
Carcia Carson, Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: John T. Wilson
A pH-Responsive Nanoparticle Platform for Improving Immunogenicity of Cancer Vaccines
2nd Place – $250
Maria Lopez Cavestany, Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Michael King
ZnO Nanostructured Surfaces for the Enhances Formation of Colorectal Cancer Spheroids
Janna Eaves-Rathert, Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Jason Valentine
Dynamic Color Tuning with Electrochemically Actuated TiO2 Metasurfaces
3rd Place – $100
Carli DeJulius, Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Craig Duvall
Antioxidant, Nano-in-Micro System for Sustained Erythropoietin Delivery in a Mouse Model of Glaucoma
Evan Glass, Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Todd Giorgio
Stimulating Macrophage-Dependent Anti-Tumor Immunity with siRNA-Loaded, Mannosylated Nanoparticles in Ovarian Cancer
Guanyu Lu, Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Josh Caldwell
Engineering the Spectral and Spatial Dispersion of Thermal Emission using Phonon Polaritons
Fan Favorite – $100
Nathan Spear, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Advisor: Janet Macdonald
Enhancement of Harmonic Generation in Bilayer Au-CuS Nanoparticle Films
First Year Rotation – $200
Kieran Nehil-Puleo, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
Advisor: Greg Walker
Controlling Thermoregulation using Neural Networks