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Sarah Driscoll, a VINSE Associate Tech Crew聽member and junior in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the second聽place national winner in the聽2023 IGNITE Off! Competition聽sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS)聽and hosted… Read More

DISSERTATION DEFENSE Kelly A. Richardson, Chemistry *under the direction of聽David Wright 鈥淭he Development of Blood-Brain Barrier Cell Culture Models and Relevant Assessment Tools鈥� 11.30.23聽 |聽 11:00AM CST聽 |聽聽5326 Stevenson Center聽 | Zoom ID: 952 2128 6219聽 聽|聽 Passcode: 978940… Read More

DISSERTATION DEFENSE Marc A. Nabhan,聽Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering *under the direction of聽Kane Jennings 鈥淚nterfacing Proteins with Conducting Polymers for the Fabrication of Biohybrid and Biomolecular-based Electronics鈥� 12.04.23聽 |聽 2:30PM CST聽 |聽 048 Engineering Science Building (ESB) The overarching theme of the work presented herein is the combination of proteins… Read More

Congratulations to Eric Skaar’s group for their Nature publication.聽The keys towards understanding the role of nutrients in guest-hosts interactions inherently reside at the nanoscale. The work by Pi et al. from the Skaar laboratory utilized the advanced electron microscopy capabilities in VINSE to reveal how C. difficile bacteria use… Read More

Congratulations to聽Nicole Moehring,聽recipient of the 2023 VINSE Best Graduate Student Publication award. Nicole鈥檚 publication in ACS Nano reports on a novel chemical vapor deposition process to form precise Angstrom-scale pores in graphene 鈥� an atomically thin sheet of carbon atoms. This work has potential impact for energy conversion, energy… Read More

VINSE is excited to announce Andrey Shults聽is the recipient of the VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award. Andrey鈥檚 paper has contributions from two VINSE groups from different departments 鈥� the Macdonald group in Chemistry and the Caldwell group in Mechanical Engineering. The authors report on colloidal chemistry synthesis and characterization… Read More

Learn more about Dr. Lauren Buchanan and her group. The Buchanan group employs ultrafast two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to gain a deeper understanding of protein misfolding pathways relative to disease and to determine how protein structure and dynamics are affected by interactions with materials such as nanoparticles. Read More

Bridget Rogers has been elected President of the American Vacuum Society (AVS). She will serve a three-year term as President-elect for 2024, President for 2025, and Past President for 2026. AVS is comprised of approximately 4,500 members and supports networking聽and camaraderie among academic, industrial, government, and consulting professionals… Read More

Harrison Walker, a 2nd year Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Materials Science at 国产原创, has received a scholarship from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to work across several projects for the next two years. This unique opportunity enables him to advance his research in Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy,… Read More

Joshua Caldwell, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of 国产原创鈥檚 Interdisciplinary Materials Science (IMS) graduate program, has been elected to the 2024 Fellow Class of the Optica Society. Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America, is the preeminent professional society in the field of optics… Read More