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  • Weiss wins Chancellor’s Award for Research

    Weiss wins Chancellor’s Award for Research

    Sharon Weiss was one of seven Vanderbilt professors who won a Chancellor’s Award for Research at the Fall Faculty Assembly Aug. 22. This award recognizes excellence in works published or presented in the last three calendar years. Honorees each receive $2,000 and an engraved julep cup. Weiss, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor… Read More

    Aug. 23, 2019

  • VINSE Tool Image Competition

    VINSE Tool Image Competition

    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 them to vinse@vanderbilt.edu for consideration. The winners of this… Read More

    Aug. 21, 2019

  • 2019 NanoDay! T-shirt Design Competition

    2019 NanoDay! T-shirt Design Competition

    Goal: Create an attractive T-shirt design representing NANODAY! & the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Winning design will receive a cash prize of $300.00 The design must be exclusively your own and cannot include : logos and trademark images You can use any t-shirt color in your design JPEG format… Read More

    Aug. 21, 2019

  • VINSE Colloquium Series: “Epitaxial growth of 2D materials: Challenges and New Approaches” Dr. Joan Redwing, Penn State 10/16/2019

    VINSE Colloquium Series: “Epitaxial growth of 2D materials: Challenges and New Approaches” Dr. Joan Redwing, Penn State 10/16/2019

    October 16, 2019 Joan Redwing Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering Penn State University "Epitaxial growth of 2D materials: Challenges and New Approaches"  4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45… Read More

    Aug. 14, 2019

  • Weiss to lead VINSE starting July 1

    Weiss to lead VINSE starting July 1

    Sharon Weiss, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, professor of electrical engineering and physics and deputy director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), will become the new director of VINSE, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente… Read More

    Jun. 26, 2019

  • iPhone plus nanoscale porous silicon equals cheap, simple home diagnostics

    iPhone plus nanoscale porous silicon equals cheap, simple home diagnostics

    The simplest home medical tests might look like a deck of various silicon chips coated in special film, one that could detect drugs in the blood, another for proteins in the urine indicating infection, another for bacteria in water and the like. Add the bodily fluid you want to test,… Read More

    Jun. 11, 2019

  • 2019 Summer Nanoseminar Schedule

    2019 Summer Nanoseminar Schedule

    2019 Summer Nanoseminar Schedule 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… Read More

    May. 9, 2019

  • Hatzell awarded NSF CAREER grant to expand research on lithium-ion batteries

    Hatzell awarded NSF CAREER grant to expand research on lithium-ion batteries

    Kelsey Hatzell, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. . The five-year, $515,600 grant— Understanding Interfaces in Solid State Energy Storage Systems and Cross-Disciplinary Education—begins June 1, 2019. Advanced lithium-ion batteries for vehicles and for renewable electricity grid storage could improve… Read More

    Apr. 10, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    Rosenthal to step down as VINSE director; planning for institute’s future begins

    Sandra Rosenthal, Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry, will step down as director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) on June 30 following 12 years of service. “I am so grateful to Sandy for her many years of devoted service at VINSE,” said Provost and… Read More

    Apr. 5, 2019

  • Do you know a rising 9th or 10th grader interested in science?  Apply now for the VINSE Scholarship to attend our 2 week residential summer science academy.

    Do you know a rising 9th or 10th grader interested in science? Apply now for the VINSE Scholarship to attend our 2 week residential summer science academy.

    VINSE is offering a limited number of full scholarships for TN rising 9th and 10th graders to attend the Vanderbilt Summer Academy in Nanoscience – applications are currently being accepted. Learn more and apply at: https://t.e2ma.net/webview/qhrp4b/f34ca0225bfe9f623613272760b1b3b9  … Read More

    Feb. 12, 2019