Sarah Ross

  • Project seeks to create ‘bioartificial’ kidney

    Project seeks to create ‘bioartificial’ kidney

    Nephrologist William Fissell IV, M.D., associate professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, is intent on creating and mass-producing an implantable bioartificial kidney that can transform quality of life and prospects for survival for people with chronic kidney disease who would otherwise be forced onto dialysis. Donor kidneys are in… Read More

    Jul. 11, 2013

  • Collaboration between Vanderbilt and startup Femtometrix leads to exclusive deal

    Collaboration between Vanderbilt and startup Femtometrix leads to exclusive deal

    An innovative wafer inspection tool developed by a team of Vanderbilt professors and engineers has been licensed exclusively to startup company Femtometrix. The semiconductor wafer-inspection technology based on laser optics was invented by Norman Tolk, Ph.D., professor of physics, Michael Alles, engineer for Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, and Ron… Read More

    Jun. 27, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Weiss participates in NSF advocacy day

    Following an early morning flight to Washington, D.C., on May 7, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics Sharon Weiss braved the rainy weather to head to Capitol Hill and meet with staff members in the offices of Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Bob Corker, Rep. Jim… Read More

    May. 10, 2013

  • VINSE goes to Capitol Hill to discuss K-12 STEM outreach with members of the Tennessee delegation

    VINSE goes to Capitol Hill to discuss K-12 STEM outreach with members of the Tennessee delegation

    It was an exciting day on Capitol Hill. Dr. Sandra Rosenthal, director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), Sarah Ross, program and outreach coordinator at VINSE, and Toshia Wrenn, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Vanderbilt had the opportunity to share with staff in the offices… Read More

    Apr. 18, 2013

  • Professor’s lab brings first ALD systems to Vanderbilt

    Professor’s lab brings first ALD systems to Vanderbilt

    Cary Pint’s lab – Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory in Olin Hall – is close to completion and it brings to Vanderbilt its first two atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, relatively small tools that deposit atomically thin layers of material on virtually any surface. The lab also houses a host… Read More

    Apr. 2, 2013

  • Vanderbilt outreach initiative puts science in the hands of Tennessee students

    Vanderbilt outreach initiative puts science in the hands of Tennessee students

    Middle school students in Robertson and Dickson counties will get hands-on science instruction thanks to a Vanderbilt University outreach initiative. Science teachers for grades 6-8 at White House Heritage Elementary School and Coopertown Middle School in Robertson County were on the Vanderbilt campus Jan. 23 to pick up kits containing… Read More

    Jan. 23, 2013

  • New faculty: Rizia Bardhan finds solutions at the nanoscale

    New faculty: Rizia Bardhan finds solutions at the nanoscale

    Rizia Bardhan has a large picture of Mahatma Gandhi in her office. “Gandhi has always been very special to me,” she said. “We share the same birthday. He exemplifies the power of perseverance.” Perseverance has carried the new assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering to Nashville from… Read More

    Dec. 11, 2012

  • Director of German nanosciences institute is NanoDay! keynote speaker

    Director of German nanosciences institute is NanoDay! keynote speaker

    Research seminars, poster presentations part of Oct. 24 event The director of a nanosciences institute in Dresden, Germany, is the keynote speaker at the 13th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Oct. 24 at Vanderbilt University. The Forum and NanoDay! activities are sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and… Read More

    Oct. 16, 2012

  • Nanoscience and nanotechnology minor offered

    Nanoscience and nanotechnology minor offered

    In an effort to respond to students’ rapidly growing interest in nanoscale technology, a new 15-hour interdisciplinary minor in nanoscience and nanotechnology is being offered by the School of Engineering and the College of Arts and Science. Directors are Paul E. Laibinis, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering,… Read More

    Oct. 15, 2012

  • Grant will help professor develop battery to aid home energy use

    Grant will help professor develop battery to aid home energy use

    Peter Pintauro, H. Eugene McBrayer Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of the chemical and biomolecular engineering department, has partnered with researchers from the University of Kansas and TVN Systems, Inc. on a three-year, $1.72 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) of the U.S. Department of Energy… Read More

    Oct. 11, 2012