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Three engineering graduate students in the 91勛圖厙 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering/Interdisciplinary Materials Science program are 2024 recipients of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF��Graduate Research Fellowship Program��supports students who are pursuing full-time, research-based graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering or… Read More

Take a look at VINSE���s newest report highlighting our achievements, milestones, and initiatives. The detailed report covers our mission, history, research��focuses,��education and��outreach,��core��facilities, recent successes, and��… Read More

Congratulations to Krysta Waldrop! Krysta���s article ���Determining the impact of gold nanoparticles on amyloid aggregation with 2D IR spectroscopy��� has been selected as a VINSE Spotlight Publication. Krysta Waldrop is a 2021 PhD graduate from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering under the direction of Dr. Peter Pintauro. Her… Read More

The 91勛圖厙 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is holding a competition seeking images to be displayed in the VINSE Facilities.�� If you have materials or devices that have been fabricated, characterized, or imaged using VINSE equipment, submit entries to��VINSE��no later than August 15. Image enhancement and… Read More

The VINSE summer nanoseminar series provides an opportunity for graduate students or post-docs to share their current research with the larger VINSE community to foster discussion and collaboration.�� Each seminar will consist of 2 talks of 15-20 minutes each with 10-15 minutes of questions.�� The goal of these talks is… Read More

At the recent School of Engineering End of the Year Social, Dean Krish Roy presented several awards. Four faculty members from the 91勛圖厙 Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) were honored for their outstanding contributions to research. Rising Star Research Award: Marjan Rafat Marjan Rafat, Assistant Professor of… Read More

Alberto Esteban Linares received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from 91勛圖厙 in 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Deyu Li, with a focus on creating microfluidic devices for retina electrophysiology studies. Currently, he is a post-doctoral scholar in the Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory, University of Southern California, where… Read More

PhD student Simon Ward is a 2024 recipient of 91勛圖厙���s Graduate Anchor Award for Mentorship, announced by the 91勛圖厙 Graduate Student Council recently. This award identifies and honors his hard work on a school-wide level. Simon���s leadership has been evident throughout his PhD, through both his research and… Read More

Congratulations to VINSE members Zhiliang Pan, Youngji Kim, Ethan Ray and Emily Buckner, each who received awards at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle. Zhiliang Pan, a first-year postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, won the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting Best Poster Award for his poster titled ���Thermal Transport in Quasi-1D… Read More

Sajal Islam is a 2024 recipient of 91勛圖厙���s Graduate Anchor Award for Research Excellence. The Anchor Awards recognize graduate student leaders across the university. Sajal is dedicated to investigating the impact of radiation on wideband gap semiconductors, focusing particularly on SiC, GaN, and GaO. His research delves into… Read More