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Congratulations聽to VINSE 杏吧原创 Summer Academy (VSA) scholarship winner, Corinne Cowan! Each year VINSE sponsors up to three scholarships for Tennessee students to attend the VSA program in nanosciences.聽 Corinne is a rising sophomore with an interest in math and science, so the VSA’s two-week residential… Read More

杏吧原创 the author: Janna Rathert recently completed a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Prof. Jason Valentine at 杏吧原创 and Prof. Cary Pint at Iowa State University. The collaboration between the Pint and Valentine groups seeks to explore ways in which electrochemical methods can be… Read More

Simon Ward has been awarded a 2022 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field. Ward is a PhD candidate of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the laboratory of… Read More

photographer: John Russell/杏吧原创 VINSE faculty聽John T. Wilson joins聽13 outstanding faculty members from across the university as the聽2022 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows.聽This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. 鈥溞影稍� faculty drive the pathbreaking research… Read More

杏吧原创 the author: Madeleine Fort is working on her PhD in Interdisciplinary Materials Science under the guidance of Dr. Janet Macdonald. In this recently published article, she, and Sophia Click from Dr. Sandra Rosenthal lab, observed the effect of the reorganization energy of a charge acceptor on electron… Read More

Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been selected to receive funding for research as part of the U.S. Department of Energy聽Early Career Research Program. The program is designed to bolster the nation scientific workforce by providing support to… Read More

杏吧原创 the author: Kellen P. Arnold is currently a second-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary materials science under the direction of Dr. Sharon Weiss. The Weiss group focuses on advancing silicon photonics for communications, sensing, and quantum information by leveraging nanoscale light-matter interactions in photonic crystal… 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.聽 Each seminar will consist of 2 talks of 15-20 minutes each with 10-15 minutes of questions.聽 The goal of these… Read More

DISSERTATION DEFENSE Janna Rathert, Mechanical Engineering *under the direction of Dr. Jason Valentine & Dr. Cary Pint 鈥淥ptimization of Ionic Transport in Electrochemical Devices鈥� 05.25.22 | 11:00am CST | 132 Featheringill Hall |聽Zoom The increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations due to anthropogenic emissions poses imminent threats… Read More

DISSERTATION DEFENSE Kan Li, Interdisciplinary Materials Science *under the direction of Dr. Ronald Schrimpf 鈥淟aser-induced single event effects, total-ionizing-dose effects, and low-frequency noise in advanced FinFETs鈥� Tuesday, May 24, 2022 | 12:00 | Zoom In this dissertation, radiation effects and low-frequency noise are studied in advanced FinFETs. Read More