IMS

IMS students had a great time Saturday night hosting the first annual IMS tailgate. Anchor Down!  … Read More

Please join us in congratulating Sarah Ross on her 25 years of service to Vanderbilt University. Sarah joined Vanderbilt in 1996 and she has been instrumental in the success of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) since its founding in 2001. Sarah currently serves as Senior Program Manager with… Read More

Before starting as a staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the new Quantum Information Science Section, Claire Marvinney joined the lab as an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow in 2018, working first in the Quantum Information Science Group and then in the Quantum Heterostructures… Read More

“Examining the self-assembly of patchy alkane-grafted silica nanoparticles using molecular simulation” published in The Journal of Chemical Physics has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. About the authors: Cal Craven is working towards his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science under the direction of Dr. Clare McCabe, Justin Gilmer is a… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering is hosting conversation hours discussing graduate programs. Be sure to tune in on October 19th at 7pm to see 4 of the Interdisciplinary Materials Science students talk about their graduate student experiences within the IMS program. Register HERE… Read More

Brice Harkey earned her MS in Interdisciplinary Materials Science from Vanderbilt University in December of 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Kelsey Hatzell. Brice studied polymer ceramic blends in various ratios to understand benefits on Li+ – ion battery applications. In tandem, she also studied structure-property relationships… Read More

Dr. Yuanzhe Liang, who recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science at Vanderbilt University, was awarded the first annual Vanderbilt IMS Best Student Paper Award for his work entitled “Polyamide nanofiltration membrane with highly uniform sub-nanometre pores for sub-1 Angstrom… Read More

Tao Hong was recently awarded Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship. The award focused on supporting students to complete graduate degrees at top institutions. Tao is eligible to receive up to $150,000 total during the study in PhD program of Interdisciplinary Materials Science… Read More

Kody Wolfe earned his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science at Vanderbilt University in August 2021 under the supervision of Dr. G. Kane Jennings and Dr. David Cliffel. Kody studied electron transfer between biomolecules and electrode materials with an emphasis on using the Photosystem I (PSI)… Read More

Nicole Moehring and Kellen Arnold received “Best Student Presentation” award at the virtual poster session for the 2021 Joint Nanoscience and Neutron Scattering User Meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In addition to a cash prize both Nicole and Kellen have been invited to present their… Read More