VINSE Faculty News

  • Deyu Li receives Chancellor’s Award for Research

    Deyu Li receives Chancellor’s Award for Research

    Deyu Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was one of five faculty members receiving a Chancellor’s Award for Research, which also recognizes excellence in research, scholarship, or creative expression. These awards are given for works presented or published in the preceding three calendar years. Read More

    Aug. 22, 2013

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    Size matters in nanocrystals’ ability to release gases

    More efficient catalytic converters on autos, improved batteries and more sensitive gas sensors are some of the potential benefits of a new system that can directly measure the manner in which nanocrystals adsorb and release hydrogen and other gases. The technique, which was developed by Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of… Read More

    Aug. 6, 2013

  • Project seeks to create ‘bioartificial’ kidney

    Project seeks to create ‘bioartificial’ kidney

    Nephrologist William Fissell IV, M.D., associate professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, is intent on creating and mass-producing an implantable bioartificial kidney that can transform quality of life and prospects for survival for people with chronic kidney disease who would otherwise be forced onto dialysis. Donor kidneys are in… Read More

    Jul. 11, 2013

  • Collaboration between Vanderbilt and startup Femtometrix leads to exclusive deal

    Collaboration between Vanderbilt and startup Femtometrix leads to exclusive deal

    An innovative wafer inspection tool developed by a team of Vanderbilt professors and engineers has been licensed exclusively to startup company Femtometrix. The semiconductor wafer-inspection technology based on laser optics was invented by Norman Tolk, Ph.D., professor of physics, Michael Alles, engineer for Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, and Ron… Read More

    Jun. 27, 2013

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    Weiss participates in NSF advocacy day

    Following an early morning flight to Washington, D.C., on May 7, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics Sharon Weiss braved the rainy weather to head to Capitol Hill and meet with staff members in the offices of Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Bob Corker, Rep. Jim… Read More

    May. 10, 2013

  • Professor’s lab brings first ALD systems to Vanderbilt

    Professor’s lab brings first ALD systems to Vanderbilt

    Cary Pint’s lab – Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory in Olin Hall – is close to completion and it brings to Vanderbilt its first two atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, relatively small tools that deposit atomically thin layers of material on virtually any surface. The lab also houses a host… Read More

    Apr. 2, 2013

  • New faculty: Rizia Bardhan finds solutions at the nanoscale

    New faculty: Rizia Bardhan finds solutions at the nanoscale

    Rizia Bardhan has a large picture of Mahatma Gandhi in her office. “Gandhi has always been very special to me,” she said. “We share the same birthday. He exemplifies the power of perseverance.” Perseverance has carried the new assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering to Nashville from… Read More

    Dec. 11, 2012

  • Grant will help professor develop battery to aid home energy use

    Grant will help professor develop battery to aid home energy use

    Peter Pintauro, H. Eugene McBrayer Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of the chemical and biomolecular engineering department, has partnered with researchers from the University of Kansas and TVN Systems, Inc. on a three-year, $1.72 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) of the U.S. Department of Energy… Read More

    Oct. 11, 2012

  • VINSE Welcomes Cary Pint

    VINSE Welcomes Cary Pint

    Cary M. Pint, assistant professor of mechanical engineering B.S., University of Northern Iowa, 2005 M.S., Rice University, 2009 Ph.D., Rice University, 2010 Pint’s research interests focus on nanomate rials development for efficient and integrated energy storage and conversion devices. This… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2012

  • VINSE Welcomes Philippe Fauchet

    VINSE Welcomes Philippe Fauchet

    Philippe M. Fauchet, dean of the School of Engineering; professor of electrical engineering B.S., Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, 1978 M.S., Brown University, 1980 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1984 Fauchet comes to Vanderbilt from the University of Rochester, where he served as Distinguished Professor and Chair… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2012