Sarah Ross

  • 21st Annual NanoDay! Poster Competition

    21st Annual NanoDay! Poster Competition

    $500 1st place  (1 award)   –    $250 2nd place (2 awards)    –    $100 3rd place  (3 awards) The 21st Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum.  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… Read More

    Sep. 2, 2021

  • VINSE Colloquium Series “Flat Optics for Wavefront Manipulation and Mixed Reality Eyewear” Student Selected Speaker Dr. Mark Brongersma; Stanford 04/13/2022

    VINSE Colloquium Series “Flat Optics for Wavefront Manipulation and Mixed Reality Eyewear” Student Selected Speaker Dr. Mark Brongersma; Stanford 04/13/2022

    April 13, 2022 8th Annual VINSE Student Selected Seminar Series Mark Brongersma Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials Stanford University “Flat Optics for Wavefront Manipulation and Mixed Reality Eyewear“ 4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Since the development of diffractive optical elements in the 1970s, major research efforts have focused… Read More

    Sep. 1, 2021

  • Meet Our Graduates: Francis Afzal

    Meet Our Graduates: Francis Afzal

    Francis Afzal received his Ph.D from Vanderbilt University in Electrical Engineering on December 2020. For his Ph.D work titled “Investigation of Photonic Crystal Nanobeams for Resonator Coupling, Modal Fingerprinting and Wavelength Filtering”, Francis worked under the direction of Dr. Sharon M. Weiss to investigate the optical properties of photonic… Read More

    Sep. 1, 2021

  • Congratulations to Justus Ndukaife &  John Wilson who received a Chancellor’s Award for Research at the 2021 Fall Faculty Assembly

    Congratulations to Justus Ndukaife & John Wilson who received a Chancellor’s Award for Research at the 2021 Fall Faculty Assembly

    Chancellor Daniel Diermeier, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Cybele Raver and Faculty Senate Chair Mark Magnuson, Louise B. McGavock Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, presented awards to 13 faculty members during the Fall Faculty Assembly… Read More

    Aug. 30, 2021

  • First Annual VINSE Best Graduate Student Publication – seeking nominations

    First Annual VINSE Best Graduate Student Publication – seeking nominations

    VINSE is seeking faculty nominations for the first annual VINSE Best Graduate Student Research Publication Award. This award will come with a plaque, $1,000 cash prize, and an opportunity to present at NanoDay. Eligibility requires: work be in one or more of VINSE’s six research thrusts (nano bio/medicine, nano computation,… Read More

    Aug. 27, 2021

  • IMS grad student Ryan Kowalski selected as X-Force fellow by NSIN

    IMS grad student Ryan Kowalski selected as X-Force fellow by NSIN

    Ryan Kowalski, a second year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Materials Science at Vanderbilt University, was selected as an X-Force fellow by the NSIN – National Security Innovation Network this summer. He is working under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Goodman and Dr. Robert Cooper at… Read More

    Aug. 27, 2021

  • Yuanzhe Liang receives IMS Best Publication Award

    Yuanzhe Liang receives IMS Best Publication Award

    Dr. Yuanzhe Liang, who recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science at Vanderbilt University, was awarded the first annual Vanderbilt IMS Best Student Paper Award for his work entitled “Polyamide nanofiltration membrane with highly uniform sub-nanometre pores for sub-1 Angstrom… Read More

    Aug. 24, 2021

  • We are hiring – Staff Engineer II

    We are hiring – Staff Engineer II

    The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) has an opening for a Staff Engineer II. This position will provide support for research and coursework in the VINSE cleanroom. The Staff Engineer will play a critical role in VINSE’s efforts to support research across a broad range of technical… Read More

    Aug. 23, 2021

  • Meet Our Graduates: Davis Fehrman

    Meet Our Graduates: Davis Fehrman

    Davis Fehrman received his B.S. in Engineering Science with a concentration in nano-science and technology in 2021 from Vanderbilt University. As an undergraduate, Davis was on the VINSE Technical Crew where he learned valuable skills in photolithography, etching, deposition, and metrology through his work in the… Read More

    Aug. 21, 2021

  • Meet Our Graduates: Savannah DuBose

    Meet Our Graduates: Savannah DuBose

    Savannah DuBose received her B.E. in Chemical Engineering in 2021 from Vanderbilt University. As an undergraduate, Savannah was on the VINSE Technical Crew where she learned valuable skills in photolithography, etching, deposition, and metrology. She used these skills to develop VINSE processes and operating procedures… Read More

    Aug. 15, 2021