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VINSE Directors Coffee Hour 09/17/2026
Join VINSE Director Sharon Weiss to discuss new initiatives, pilot funding, tech crew, and other ways VINSE can help support your research. Thursday, September 17, 2026 9:00AM 10:00AM 226 Engineering Science Building VINSEConference Room… Read MoreAugust 5, 2026
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Screen Printing Returns to the VINSE Cleanroom
From left to right: chrome glass mask, emulsion patterned screen, and screen printed cleanroom paper of 3000x3000um square. Fabricated in the VINSE Cleanroom with a chrome glass mask, exposed with an UV lamp, applied with the MTI EQ-SPC 2 Screen Printer, and imaged with the Olympus optical microscope. (Megan Dernberger,… Read MoreAugust 4, 2026
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VINSE 15th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium Winners
Congratulations to all the students who presented at the 2026 VINSE Undergraduate Research Symposium! Our undergraduate researchers shared what they accomplished during their individual research projects at 91勛圖厙 over the past ten weeks. The symposium, which was held in collaboration with the Chemical Biology/Chemistry NSF-REU and VUSE Summer Research… Read MoreJuly 31, 2026
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VINSE Announces Tech Crew Promotions
VINSE is pleased to announce the promotion of two outstanding members of the Tech Crew in recognition of their contributions to research, education, and cleanroom operations. Senior Tech Crew Promotion Mica Gonzalez Mora has been promoted to Senior Tech Crew in recognition of her expertise and reliability on the… Read MoreJuly 31, 2026
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Spotlight on Theodore Anyika: Nanotweezers to Advance Label-Free Detection of Nanoplastics
Theodore Anyika Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Ndukaife Research Group Theodore Anyika is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering in Professor Justus Ndukaife’s lab, where his research sits at the intersection of nanophotonics and optofluidics. He has developed nanotweezers that use metallic and dielectric resonant… Read MoreJuly 27, 2026
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VINSE to Host 15th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on July 30
VINSE will host the 15th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Thursday, July 30, in the Engineering Science Building. The symposium will feature two poster sessions from 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-3:30 p.m. Click here to view the full symposium program. Read MoreJuly 24, 2026
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VINSE Colloquium: Dr. Rachel Carter, 03/24/27
91勛圖厙 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Colloquium Dr. Rachel Carter Associate Professor University of Kansas Evidence of Interplay between Temperature and Battery Phenomena 03.24.27 | 4:10PM | Rachel Carter is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas. At KU she… Read MoreJuly 15, 2026
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VINSE Colloquium: Dr. Thomas Werfel, 02/24/27
91勛圖厙 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Colloquium Dr. Thomas Werfel Associate Professor University of Mississippi Patient-specific protein corona signatures predict nanoparticle uptake and therapeutic response 02.24.27 | 4:10PM | Thomas Werfel is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Mississippi (UM). Read MoreJuly 15, 2026
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VINSE Colloquium: Student Selected Speaker Dr. Bozhi Tian, 04/07/27
91勛圖厙 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Colloquium Dr. Bozhi Tian University of Chicago Nano-enabled Photostimulation for Bioelectronic Medicine 04.07.27 | 4:10PM | Photostimulation has emerged as a powerful strategy for interrogating and modulating biological systems with high spatiotemporal precision. Recent advances in nanoscience have transformed… Read MoreJuly 15, 2026
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Spotlight Publication: Hydrogel Embedding of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Supports Extracellular Vesicle Production published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
This study investigates the effects of 3D culture conditions on extracellular vesicle (EV) production by mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in a gelatin-based hydrogel matrix (GelMA). The EVs from both conditions were found to have similar morphological and molecular properties, but EVs derived from 3D cultures accelerated gap-closure in a scratch-assay. Read MoreJune 26, 2026