VINSE NSF-REU

Congratulations to all of the students who presented at the 2024 VINSE Undergraduate Research Symposium! Our undergraduate researchers were able to share everything they accomplished during their individual research projects at Vanderbilt University over the past ten weeks. The symposium, which was held in collaboration with the Chemical Biology/Chemistry… Read More

Congratulations to Mingze He and Levi Hoogendoorn! Their article “Guided Polaritons along the Forbidden Direction in MoO3 with Geometrical Confinement” has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. Mingze He is a 2023 Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Joshua D. Caldwell. Read More

Congratulations to VINSE members Zhiliang Pan, Youngji Kim, Ethan Ray and Emily Buckner, each who received awards at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle. Zhiliang Pan, a first-year postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, won the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting Best Poster Award for his poster titled “Thermal Transport in Quasi-1D… Read More

Co-first author Hayden Pagendarm is a 4th year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering program advised by Dr. John T. Wilson. His research is focused on the development of novel technologies to induce antigen-specific immune tolerance, with a focus on engineered proteins and extracellular vesicles. Co-first author Payton Stone is… Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering will host the Summer Research Poster Session on Thursday, August 3 from 1:30pm-3:30pm in the Engineering and Science Building lobby. Please join us to recognize our undergraduate students’ work as they share the results of their 10-week summer projects. All members of… Read More

DISSERTATION DEFENSE Jenna Dombroski, Biomedical Engineering *under the direction of Mike King “Nano-vaccines and dendritic cell processing for anti-cancer therapies” 05.18.23  |  12:00PM CST  |  5326 Stevenson Center  |   Zoom 1 in 8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, representing a need for effective preventative measures… Read More

Meet the 2023 summer interns  … Read More

Learn more about the 13 VINSE REU Interns and 5 Tech Crew members. Learn more about the 2023 summer mentoring team   … Read More

Christopher Stachurski is a 2021 PhD graduate from the Department of Chemistry under the direction of Drs. David Cliffel and Kane Jennings. He is current an Assistant Research Professor at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD working with Drs. Paul Trulove and David Durkin on using… Read More

Congratulations to all of the students who presented at the 2022 VINSE Undergraduate Research Symposium! Our undergraduate researchers were able to share everything they accomplished during their individual research projects at Vanderbilt University over the past ten weeks. The symposium, which was held in collaboration with… Read More