Sarah Ross
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Bolotin and McCabe receive VINSE Distinguished Service Awards
Kirill Bolotin and Clare McCabe were each awarded a VINSE Distinguished Service Award at the VINSE fall faculty celebration. Kirill was recognized for his vision and creation of the VINSE summer nanoseminar series. Clare was recognized for her continued leadership and commitment to the VINSE REU. Read MoreAug. 29, 2014
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Craig Duvall receives NSF Early Career Award
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Craig L. Duvall has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. The five-year, $500,000 grant – Polythioketal Hydrogel For SiRNA-Enhanced Regenerative Cell Therapies – will allow Duvall to continue research on advanced drug delivery systems designed to enhance the performance… Read MoreAug. 28, 2014
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Three researchers receive EAGER awards
Three Vanderbilt researchers have received an award designed to better understand how complex behaviors emerge from activity on brain circuitry as part of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative. Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Donna Webb, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Deyu Li and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering… Read MoreAug. 22, 2014
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Professor touts faster, cheaper way to test for explosives
A Vanderbilt University professor has come up with a faster and less expensive way to test for explosives residue on surfaces. Prof. Sharon Weiss has modified white gold leaf paper so that its surface provides signal amplification of 100 million times – so that a laser and detector… Read MoreJul. 28, 2014
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2014 Summer Nanoseminar Series
Organized by: J. Scott Niezgoda WHAT IS VINSE SUMMER “NANOSEMINAR”? A seminar series in VINSE, 9 amazingly interesting seminars have been scheduled for this summer. During each seminar, two students/post-docs from different research groups will talk about their projects dealing with nanofabrication and science/technology… Read MoreMay. 30, 2014
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Liberating devices from their power cords
Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources. This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy directly into a wide range of products, such as a laptop whose… Read MoreMay. 19, 2014
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VINSE High School Field Trip program Fall 2013 & Spring 2014
Small groups of students from across middle Tennessee high schools learned how to squeeze electricity from a blackberry. The students mashed blackberries, extracted their juice, soaked an electrode in the juice, coated another electrode with graphite and clipped them together to make a solar cell. After… Read MoreMay. 15, 2014
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David Wright named Stevenson Chair of Chemistry
VINSE Faculty David Wright named Stevenson Chair of Chemistry. KEEP READING>… Read MoreMay. 7, 2014
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How to create nanowires only three atoms wide with an electron beam
Junhao Lin, a Vanderbilt University Ph.D. student and visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has found a way to use a finely focused beam of electrons to create some of the smallest wires ever made. The flexible metallic wires are only three atoms wide: One thousandth the… Read MoreApr. 28, 2014
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Construction of new VINSE facilities in new Engineering and Science Building set to begin May 2014
Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust has approved construction of a seven-story engineering and science building designed to foster project teamwork and offer programs, instrumentation areas and core research space that will promote interdisciplinary work. A clean room and advanced imaging facilities will provide capabilities to advance discoveries in… Read MoreApr. 28, 2014