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Dissertation Defense: Jessalyn Baljon, Biomedical Engineering
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Jessalyn Baljon, Biomedical Engineering *under direction of Dr. John Wilson “Engineering Nanocarriers with Synergistic Adjuvants to Enhance Responses to Cancer Vaccines” 2.27.23聽 |聽 1:00PM CST聽 |聽 Buttrick Hall 101聽 |聽 Zoom Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized cancer treatment and has led to complete and durable… Read MoreFeb. 20, 2023
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IMS graduate student Nicole Moehring receives the 2023 NAMS Student Fellowship Award
Nicole Moehring聽was selected to receive the 2023 NAMS Student Fellowship Award. This award is given each year by the聽North American Membrane Society (NAMS)聽“to outstanding graduate students in the membrane science and technology area”. The award will support Nicole’s participation on the society’s 2023 annual meeting in San… Read MoreFeb. 20, 2023
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Dissertation Defense: Sophia Click, Chemistry
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Sophia M. Click,聽Chemistry *under the direction of Dr.聽Sandra Rosenthal 鈥淯nraveling the Effects of Morphology at the Core/shell Interface of InP-based Quantum Dots鈥 03.10.23聽 |聽 1:30pm CST聽 |聽聽Stevenson 4327聽 |聽 Zoom Indium phosphide quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals who鈥檚 tunable photophysical properties makes them… Read MoreFeb. 20, 2023
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IMS Alumna Anh Hoang to speak at the IMS Open House
IMS Alumna Anh Hoang to speak to prospective students at the IMS Open House on Monday, March 6, 2023. Anh Hoang is the CEO of Jana Care -an early stage commercial company focused on at-home blood testing for patients with chronic kidney and heart failure. At Jana Care,… Read MoreFeb. 20, 2023
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Dissertation Defense: Alberto Esteban Linares, Mechanical Engineering
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Alberto Esteban Linares, Mechanical Engineering *under the direction of Dr.聽Deyu Li 鈥淢icrofluidic Platforms for Retina Electrophysiology Studies鈥 03.01.23聽 |聽 11:00am CST聽 |聽聽RHL (Light Hall) 512 Microfluidic platforms for ex vivo tissue culture studies are crucial for better understanding tissue physiologies and pathologies as they allow… Read MoreFeb. 13, 2023
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Master’s Thesis Presentation: Olivia Wright, Biomedical Engineering
MASTERS RESEARCH PRESENTATION Olivia Wright, Biomedical Engineering *under the direction of Dr. Michael King 鈥淪uperhydrophobic array devices for the production of a tunable in vitro CTC cluster model鈥 02.15.23 | 3:30pm | 5326 Stevenson Center Cancer metastasis, the spread cancer to a secondary organ, mainly occurs by tumor… Read MoreFeb. 13, 2023
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Peter Cummings named as a member of the National Academy of Engineering
Vanderbilt scholar聽Peter T. Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, emeritus, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In an聽announcement聽released February 7, 2023, the Academy cited Cummings for his 鈥渟imulation-based solutions to chemical engineering problems, and for innovations and leadership in modeling and… Read MoreFeb. 13, 2023
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Dissertation Defense: Guanyu Lu, Mechanical Engineering
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Guanyu Lu, Mechanical Engineering *under the direction of Dr.聽Josh Caldwell “Phonon Polaritons for Engineering Thermal Emission and Heat Transfer” 03.01.23聽 |聽 1:00pm聽 |聽 Buttrick Hall 101 The field of nanophotonics is based on the confinement of electromagnetic energy to length scales an order of magnitude shorter… Read MoreFeb. 8, 2023
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鈥淯ltrafast X-ray imaging of the light-induced phase transition in VO2鈥 published in Nature Physics, selected as Spotlight Publication
Congratulations to Richard Haglund and Kent Hallman for their Nature Physics publication. This paper is the latest from a multi-year, multi-national (United States, Germany, Denmark, South Korea, France, United Kingdom) collaboration in which Vanderbilt鈥檚 part was the preparation and characterization (in conjunction with the Technical 溏心vlog免费B站-Berlin) of a… Read MoreJan. 30, 2023
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Dissertation Defense, Joshua Greenlee, Biomedical Engineering
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Joshua Dale Greenlee, Biomedical Engineering *under the direction of Dr. Michael King “TRAIL Therapy for Exploiting Mechanisms of Drug Resistance and Metastasis in Advanced Colorectal Cancer” 02.23.23聽 |聽 9:30am聽 |聽 Light Hall 208聽 |聽 Zoom Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer… Read MoreJan. 25, 2023