VINSE Faculty News

  • Jason Valentine featured in C&EN News and Nature Materials

    Jason Valentine featured in C&EN News and Nature Materials

    VINSE member Jason Valentine’s work published in ACS Photonics was featured in C&EN magazine and Nature Materials 06/15/2015 “Simple Process Creates Near-Perfect Mirrors Out Of A Metamaterial Photonics: A layer of self-assembled particles allows researchers to etch an almost-perfect reflector that might be used in telescopes and lasers out… Read More

    Jun. 16, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    World’s smallest spirals could guard against identity theft

    Take gold spirals about the size of a dime…and shrink them down about six million times. The result is the world’s smallest continuous spirals: “nano-spirals” with unique optical properties that would be almost impossible to counterfeit if they were added to identity cards, currency and other important objects. Students and… Read More

    Jun. 8, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineer uses cotton candy to build artificial blood vessels

    Vanderbilt University mechanical engineer Leon Bellan is working to create artificial human capillary blood vessels using cotton candy and gelatin. His goal is for researchers to use these man-made capillaries to help keep artificial organs and other tissues alive, which could dramatically impact the field of regenerative medicine. Vascular toolbox… Read More

    Apr. 1, 2015

  • Scott Guelcher and Sharon Weiss named Inaugural Chancellor Faculty Fellows

    Scott Guelcher and Sharon Weiss named Inaugural Chancellor Faculty Fellows

    Fifteen faculty members hailing from a diverse cross section of disciplines have been selected as the first cohort of the Chancellor Faculty Fellows program. “The strong commitment to education, discovery and care demonstrated by these faculty members is having an enormous impact on Vanderbilt and its mission of serving… Read More

    Feb. 12, 2015

  • Duvall to receive 2015 Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award for regenerative medicine research

    Duvall to receive 2015 Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award for regenerative medicine research

    Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Craig L. Duvall has received a Society for Biomaterials 2015 Young Investigator Award for his achievements in the field of biomaterials research within 10 years of receiving his doctorate. The award will be presented at the Society’s 2015 annual meeting in… Read More

    Jan. 26, 2015

  • David Wright elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

    David Wright elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

    David Wright, Stevenson Professor of Chemistry, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. KEEP READING>… Read More

    Nov. 24, 2014

  • Sokrates Pantelides, elected a Fellow of the IEEE

    Sokrates Pantelides, elected a Fellow of the IEEE

    Sokrates Pantelides, University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering; William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of Physics and Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE. Read More

    Nov. 24, 2014

  • New form of crystalline order holds promise for thermoelectric applications

    New form of crystalline order holds promise for thermoelectric applications

    Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope image showing the interlaced crystalline structure. (Wu Zhou/ORNL) Since the 1850s scientists have known that crystalline materials are organized into 14 different basic lattice structures. However, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) now reports… Read More

    Nov. 14, 2014

  • Yaqiong Xu receives SEC faculty travel grant

    Yaqiong Xu receives SEC faculty travel grant

    Ten Vanderbilt faculty members will take part in the 2014-15 SEC Faculty Travel Grant Program. Now in its third year, the program provides support for selected faculty members to collaborate with colleagues at other Southeastern Conference member institutions. In addition, seven faculty from other SEC schools will collaborate at Vanderbilt. Read More

    Oct. 30, 2014

  • Improving breast cancer chemo by testing tumors in a dish

    Improving breast cancer chemo by testing tumors in a dish

    One of the tragic realities of cancer is that the drugs used to treat it are highly toxic and their effectiveness varies unpredictably from patient to patient. However, a new “tumor-in-a-dish” technology is poised to change this reality by rapidly assessing how effective specific anti-cancer cocktails will be on an… Read More

    Oct. 28, 2014