Sarah Ross

  • Inaugural Student Selected VINSE Keynote Address, Dr.  El-Sayed “Nano-technology Meets Biology in the Cancer Cell”

    Inaugural Student Selected VINSE Keynote Address, Dr. El-Sayed “Nano-technology Meets Biology in the Cancer Cell”

    Inaugural Student Selected VINSE Keynote Address Dr. Mostafa A. El-Sayed Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Director, Laser Dynamics Lab Georgia Institute of Technology “Nano-Technology Meets Biology in the Cancer Cell” Abstract: Using… Read More

    Mar. 11, 2014

  • Jason Valentine receives NSF Early Career Award

    Jason Valentine receives NSF Early Career Award

    Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jason Valentine has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. The four-year, $400,000 grant – All-Dielectric Optical Metasurfaces For Controlling Wave Fronts – will allow Valentine to continue research that will lead to a new class of ultra-compact optical elements that can… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Making waves: In the hunt for invisibility

    A new way of assembling things, called metamaterials, may in the not too distant future help to protect a building from earthquakes by bending seismic waves around it, similar to the principle applied to light waves in invisibility cloaks. Jason Valentine, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has developed such an invisibility… Read More

    Dec. 25, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Biodegradable scaffold may spur wound healing

      From left, Scott Guelcher, Ph.D., Jeffrey Davidson, Ph.D., Christopher Nelson and Craig Duvall, Ph.D., showed that an enzyme-blocking molecule released by a biodegradable scaffold can enhance wound healing in a mouse model. (photo by Susan Urmy) Biomedical and chemical engineers at Vanderbilt University, working with a… Read More

    Dec. 19, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    New device stores electricity on silicon chips

    Solar cells that produce electricity 24/7, not just when the sun is shining. Mobile phones with built-in power cells that recharge in seconds and work for weeks between charges. These are just two of the possibilities raised by a novel supercapacitor design invented by material scientists at Vanderbilt University that… Read More

    Oct. 22, 2013

  • VUCast Extra: Blackberries, electricity, and high school students

    VUCast Extra: Blackberries, electricity, and high school students

    How do you get students excited about science? Try some blackberries, nanotechnology and solar cells mixed with Tennessee high school students at a Vanderbilt lab. Watch VUCast Extra now.  … Read More

    Oct. 13, 2013

  • New faculty: John Wilson uses synthetic vaccines to further the fight against diseases

    New faculty: John Wilson uses synthetic vaccines to further the fight against diseases

    Growing up close to nature in the small timber-and-fishing community of Gold Beach, Ore.—population 2,000—gave John Wilson an early interest in biology and biologically inspired design. That, combined with an aptitude for math and physics, drew him into the field of bioengineering. When Wilson sets up his… Read More

    Oct. 7, 2013

  • VINSE Welcomes Leon Bellan

    VINSE Welcomes Leon Bellan

    Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering B.S., Caltech, 2003 M.S., Cornell University, 2007 Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008 Bellan’s research focuses on developing novel 3D microfluidic materials. A major focus of his lab is the production of biomaterials and biodevices—created with nontraditional, scalable fabrication techniques—that… Read More

    Oct. 4, 2013

  • Deyu Li receives Chancellor’s Award for Research

    Deyu Li receives Chancellor’s Award for Research

    Deyu Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was one of five faculty members receiving a Chancellor’s Award for Research, which also recognizes excellence in research, scholarship, or creative expression. These awards are given for works presented or published in the preceding three calendar years. Read More

    Aug. 22, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Size matters in nanocrystals’ ability to release gases

    More efficient catalytic converters on autos, improved batteries and more sensitive gas sensors are some of the potential benefits of a new system that can directly measure the manner in which nanocrystals adsorb and release hydrogen and other gases. The technique, which was developed by Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of… Read More

    Aug. 6, 2013