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Check out this week’s VINSE Spotlight Publication from the Lippmann Lab featuring Dr. Daniel Chavarria and former School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt (SSMV) student Immanuel Ojetola, who served as the paper’s second author while conducting this work at Vanderbilt. Their paper, “Tolerances in microfluidic master molds: a… Read More

Congratulations to Chloe Frame, Ph.D., a former member of the McCabe Lab in VINSE! Chloe’s paper, “Multiscale simulation of stratum corneum lipid mixtures: effects of ceramide headgroups on structural organization and hydrogen bonding networks,” was selected for a special issue honoring pioneer skin lipid researcher Professor Joke Bouwstra. The outermost layer… Read More

Ryan Anthony Kowalski, from Taunton, Massachusetts, is this year’s Founder’s Medalist for the Graduate School. He is graduating with a doctor of philosophy in interdisciplinary materials science. Kowalski is the first student from the interdisciplinary materials science (IMS) program to receive this honor. Kowalski’s research… Read More

Congratulations to Emma Bartelsen and the team members in the Caldwell lab. Emma’s paper published in ACS Photonics “Multiresonant Nondispersive Infrared Gas Sensing: Breaking the Selectivity and Sensitivity Trade-Off,” has been selected as a VINSE Spotlight publication. This work demonstrates a new approach to non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) gas sensing using… Read More

Huijin (Ginny) An, a graduate student in interdisciplinary materials science at Vanderbilt University, has been awarded the Parkhutik Prize for the most outstanding poster at the recent Porous Semiconductors Science and Technology (PSST) conference in Naples, Italy. The Parkhutik Prize recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of porous silicon… Read More

  How can tiny structures in your favorite berry turn sunlight into electricity? On Monday, May 4th, VINSE welcomed students from White County High School to the Blackberry Solar Cell Lab for an interactive dive into solar energy and nanoscience. Students crafted working solar cells using blackberry juice and… Read More

Congratulations to Ikjun Hong and the team members in Justus Ndukaife lab! Ikjun’s paper, “Rapid trapping and label-free optical characterization of single nanoscale extracellular vesicles and nanoparticles in solution,” has been featured as a VINSE Spotlight publication and published in Light: Science & Applications. This work was carried out… Read More

Congratulations to Mark Mc Veigh and the Bellan group! Mark’s paper, “Understanding the Compatibility of Fluoride-Based Radiopharmaceutical Reaction Solutions and PDMS” has been featured as a VINSE Spotlight publication and published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Nuclear medicine has become an integral tool for physicians to diagnose and… Read More

Instructor: Hanna TerletskaDirector, QRISE Center at MTSU Curious about how quantum computers work and how you can start programming one? This full-day workshop takes you on a journey from the fundamental principles of quantum science to writing and running real quantum algorithms on IBM’s quantum hardware. Read More

VINSE recently hosted its 12th annual Student-Selected Keynote, featuring Prof. Guihua Yu (University of Texas at Austin), a leading researcher in materials science and energy technologies. Selected by VINSE graduate students, this keynote reflects the interests and direction of emerging researchers and continues to be a distinctive part of… Read More