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We are pleased to announce that Professor Josh Caldwell has agreed to serve as the new Director of the Interdisciplinary Materials Science graduate program starting July 1, 2021, for a three year term. Prof. Caldwell will concurrently serve as the program’s Director of Graduate Studies (DGS). Read More

Liudmyla Prozorovska graduated with a Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program at Vanderbilt University in May 2021. Liuda is a native of Ukraine and, prior to Vanderbilt, an honor graduate of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI), BE and MS in Metallurgy. Liuda’s doctoral research in Prof. Kane Jennings’s lab focused… Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is holding a competition seeking images to be displayed in the VINSE Facilities.  If you have materials or devices that have been fabricated, characterized, or imaged using VINSE equipment, submit entries to VINSE no later than October 29. Image enhancement… Read More

Join the VINSE community at the Nashville Sounds Game Night Nashville Sounds vs. Toledo Mud Hens, August 5th @ 7:05PM If you would like to attend, please email VINSE by July 16th to reserve your free tickets. This is a family event, so feel free to include… Read More

VINSE would like to congratulate all of the 2021 Vanderbilt graduates, especially those associated with VINSE.  These students carried out research within our facilities, were members of our VINSE Tech Crew/office staff or participated in NanoDay! and colloquia events.  Although we can’t celebrate in person, we wish you all the… Read More

The VINSE summer nanoseminar series provides an opportunity for graduate students or post-docs to share their current research with the larger VINSE community to foster discussion and collaboration.  Each seminar will consist of 2 talks of 15-20 minutes each with 10-15 minutes of questions.  The goal of these talks is… Read More

Meet the Summer NSF REU Fellows and VINSE Tech Crew Members  … Read More

This week in the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Kent Hallman tells Alice Leach about using VO2, a phase change material, to build photonic devices. Kent’s paper “Sub-Picosecond Response Time of a Hybrid VO2 :Silicon Waveguide at 1550 nm” was published in Advanced Optical Materials.  Kent graduated with a Ph.D. Read More

This week in the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Brian O’Grady tells Alice Leach about a new biomaterial that supports the growth of neurons into neural networks. Brian’s paper “Development of an N‑Cadherin Biofunctionalized Hydrogel to Support the Formation of Synaptically Connected Neural Networks” was published in ACS Biomaterials Science… Read More

Valpo Women in  STEM interview Dr. Sandra J. Rosenthal, Professor of Chemistry, Biomolecular & Nanoscale Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Rosenthal is the ACS Herty Medalist and SEC Distinguished Faculty award winner as well as former VINSE Director. Watch Instagram Interview Now Join in at 6:53… Read More