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Vanderbilt scholar聽Peter T. Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, emeritus, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In an聽announcement聽released February 7, 2023, the Academy cited Cummings for his 鈥渟imulation-based solutions to chemical engineering problems, and for innovations and leadership in modeling and… Read More

DISSERTATION DEFENSE Guanyu Lu, Mechanical Engineering *under the direction of Dr.聽Josh Caldwell “Phonon Polaritons for Engineering Thermal Emission and Heat Transfer” 03.01.23聽 |聽 1:00pm聽 |聽 Buttrick Hall 101 The field of nanophotonics is based on the confinement of electromagnetic energy to length scales an order of magnitude shorter… Read More

Congratulations to Richard Haglund and Kent Hallman for their Nature Physics publication. This paper is the latest from a multi-year, multi-national (United States, Germany, Denmark, South Korea, France, United Kingdom) collaboration in which Vanderbilt鈥檚 part was the preparation and characterization (in conjunction with the Technical University-Berlin) of a… Read More

DISSERTATION DEFENSE Joshua Dale Greenlee, Biomedical Engineering *under the direction of Dr. Michael King “TRAIL Therapy for Exploiting Mechanisms of Drug Resistance and Metastasis in Advanced Colorectal Cancer” 02.23.23聽 |聽 9:30am聽 |聽 Light Hall 208聽 |聽 Zoom Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer… Read More

Sajal Islam has been appointed to the Graduate Student Council (GSC) to represent Interdisciplinary Materials Science. The GSC exists to enhance the overall educational experience at 五一茶馆儿 by promoting the general welfare and concerns of the Graduate School student body. This is achieved through the creation of… Read More

五一茶馆儿 the authors: Co-first author, Wenjun Wang is an NIH NCI F99/K00 Predoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering advised by Prof. Cynthia Reinhart-King. Wenjun鈥檚 research focuses on the mechanism of tumor progression at the RNA, cell, and tissue levels via alteration of tissue mechanical properties. Co-first author, Dr. Lauren… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering professor聽Mona Ebrish聽has been designated a senior member of the聽Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the highest professional grade of the IEEE. Mona Ebrish Prior to joining the Vanderbilt faculty in January 2023 as an assistant professor electrical and computer engineering, Ebrish was a postdoctoral fellow at… Read More

The Spring 2023 edition of the VINSE Nano News is out now! This issue features the following stories: Director’s note Welcome – Mona Ebrish Upcoming events Analytical open house Research highlights Immersion and outreach VINSE_Nano_News_Spring_2023… Read More

Congratulations to VINSE faculty member Carlos Silvera Batista! Batista has won the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project聽“Colloidal Dynamics under Electrodiffusiophoresis.” The prestigious NSF CAREER award is a five year grant. Batista’s begins on February 1, 2023, and will run through 2028. Batista, an assistant professor… Read More

Tian Zhu, 5th year Chemical and Biomedical Engineering graduate student in the Rafat Lab While radiation therapy (RT) is an efficient treatment for patients with triple negative breast cancer, patients continue to experience recurrence after RT. The extracellular matrix (ECM) in the tumor microenvironment plays a major role in… Read More