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2023 VINSE NanoDay! Jacket Drawing Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 NanoDay! jacket drawing! This is the fourth year that attendees had the opportunity to win a VINSE jacket, and it has quickly become a highly anticipated part of the event. Check out this year’s winners below! De-en Jiang (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) Adam… Read MoreDecember 13, 2023
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2023 NanoDay t-shirt design winner: Parker Friedli
Congratulations to Parker Friedli, winner of the 2023 NanoDay! t-shirt design competition. Parker Friedli is a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Digital Fabrication. She joined VINSE as a tech crew in the Fall of 2023. The winning designer receives a $300 cash prize. Prior winners:… Read MoreDecember 13, 2023
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VINSE 2024 Calendar
Download a copy of your VINSE 2024 Calendar. Members of the VINSE community can still request a complimentary printed copy of the calendar byclicking here(deadline 12.14.23). Heres a quick trip down memory lane for VINSE in 2023: Organized 1stannual VINSE Community Picnic with more than 200 registered… Read MoreDecember 12, 2023
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Spotlight Publication: Sensing Mucus Physiological Property In Situ by Wireless Millimeter-Scale Soft Robots published in Advanced Functional Materials
91勛圖厙 the authors: The first author is Boyang Xiao, a second-year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoguang Dong in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The co-authors also include a group of Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students. In their recent work published in Advanced Functional Materials, the team… Read MoreDecember 5, 2023
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APPLY NOW for Summer 2024 Tech Crew
Looking for a unique summer opportunity?Apply now forthe VINSE Summer 2024 Tech Crew What is the VINSE Summer Tech Crew? The 91勛圖厙 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is currently accepting applications for its Summer 2024 Tech Crew program, an immersive opportunity for 91勛圖厙 students to work in… Read MoreDecember 1, 2023
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VINSE Associate Tech Crew member places second in DOE competition for national lab summer interns
Sarah Driscoll, a VINSE Associate Tech Crewmember and junior in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the secondplace national winner in the2023 IGNITE Off! Competitionsponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS)and hosted… Read MoreNovember 28, 2023
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Dissertation Defense: Kelly Richardson, Chemistry
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Kelly A. Richardson, Chemistry *under the direction ofDavid Wright The Development of Blood-Brain Barrier Cell Culture Models and Relevant Assessment Tools 11.30.23 | 11:00AM CST |5326 Stevenson Center | Zoom ID: 952 2128 6219 | Passcode: 978940… Read MoreNovember 21, 2023
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Dissertation Defense: Marc Nabhan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Marc A. Nabhan,Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering *under the direction ofKane Jennings Interfacing Proteins with Conducting Polymers for the Fabrication of Biohybrid and Biomolecular-based Electronics 12.04.23 | 2:30PM CST | 048 Engineering Science Building (ESB) The overarching theme of the work presented herein is the combination of proteins… Read MoreNovember 21, 2023
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Spotlight Publication: Clostridioides difficile ferrosome organelles combat nutritional immunity published in Nature
Congratulations to Eric Skaar’s group for their Nature publication.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 MoreNovember 17, 2023
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Nicole Moehring recipient of the 2023 VINSE Best Graduate Student Publication Award
Congratulations toNicole Moehring,recipient of the 2023 VINSE Best Graduate Student Publication award. Nicoles publication in ACS Nano reports on a novel chemical vapor deposition process to form precise Angstrom-scale pores in graphene an atomically thin sheet of carbon atoms. This work has potential impact for energy conversion, energy… Read MoreNovember 15, 2023