Scott Niezgoda

Scott Niezgoda earned his Ph.D. in Dr. Sandra Rosenthal’s lab at Vanderbilt University, where he studied the photophysics and surface chemistry of quantum dots for application in solar cell technology. While at Vanderbilt, Scott was active in VINSE-lead community outreach to local public high schools in an… Read More

How can you squeeze electricity from a blackberry? A number of local high school students can answer this question from personal experience. They have actually made solar cells out of blackberry juice and measured the electrical power that they produce as part of an educational outreach program started this year… Read More

Last Wednesday, Sandra Rosenthal and Scott Niezgoda accepted the invitation of Christina West, Vanderbilt’s assistant vice chancellor for federal relations, to represent Vanderbilt at the Coalition for National Science Funding’s Capitol Hill day and exhibition. Rosenthal is the Jack and Pamela Eagan Professor of Chemistry and director of the… Read More