NanoDay

This year’s 25th NanoDay marks a milestone in VINSE’s history and we’re celebrating with a special commemorative T-shirt designed by Sarah Ross and Owen Meilander, recipients of the 2025 NanoDay tshirt design award and $300 cash prize. The design honors the entire VINSE… Read More

VINSE alumnus Michael Schreuder (PhD ’10, Chemistry) will be a featured speaker at the 25th Annual NanoDay on Thursday, November 13. In his talk, “From VINSE to Industry – A VINSE Alum’s Career Path”, Schreuder will reflect on how his graduate research at VINSE helped shape his career in polymer… Read More

Congratulations to Katja Diaz-Granados, the winner of the 2024 NanoDay! t-shirt design competition. This year’s design showcased a collaboration between a former and current Vanderbilt student. The original artwork was created by Chris Sharp and updated for 2024 by Katja Diaz-Granados. Katja, a student in Interdisciplinary Materials Science, was also… Read More

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 NanoDay! jacket drawing! This marks the fifth year that attendees had the chance to win a VINSE jacket, making it a much-anticipated highlight of NanoDay!  A big round of applause for this year’s lucky winners! Megan Keech, Biomedical Engineering Matthew Galazzo, Interdisciplinary… Read More

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 VINSE NanoDay! Poster Competition! The 24th annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum Welcomed over 250 registered participants, representing 24 departments at Vanderbilt and partner institutions and 14 of industry collaborators.  A total of 66 posters were presented, highlighting the wide range… Read More

A yearly forum for members of the VINSE community engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research. Registration closed Schedule Student Life Center 11:30 LUNCH begins for poster presenters 12:00 NETWORKING LUNCH / STUDENT POSTER SESSION 2:00 Opening Remarks Dr. Sharon M. Weiss 2:20 Ancient Human DNA Studies, A New Program in Health over Time Dr. Read More

VINSE is excited to announce that Dr. Mark Hersam from Northwestern University will give the keynote lecture at the 25th annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum on November 14, 2025. Mark C. Hersam is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Director of the Materials Research Center, and… Read More

The 24th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum will be held on November 22, 2024.  This forum brings together Vanderbilt scientists and engineers working in nanoscience and nanotechnology for presentations and discussions.  The broader VINSE research program is… Read More

Submit an original design representing NanoDay! and VINSE. The winning design will receive a $300 cash prize. The design must be exclusively your own and cannot include logos and trademark images You can use any t-shirt color in your design JPEG format (at least 300 dpi) No limits to… Read More

Recently, Andrey Shults, Guanyu Lu, Josh Caldwell and Janet Macdonald celebrated their winning 2023 VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award. The paper has contributions from two VINSE groups from different departments – the Macdonald group in Chemistry and the Caldwell group in Mechanical Engineering. The authors report on colloidal chemistry synthesis… Read More