Sarah Ross

Exciting news! Oxford Instruments plc is the newest member of the VINSE Industry Affiliates Program. Oxford Instruments is a leading provider of high-technology products and services to the world’s leading companies and scientific research communities. Oxford Instruments designs and manufactures equipment that can image, analyze and manipulate materials down to… Read More

We are thrilled to announce that Jana Care has joined the VINSE Industry Affiliates Program, becoming our newest member! Jana Care is a global company developing biomarker assays for its proprietary digital health platform with the goal of improving health outcomes for people living with chronic diseases. Their unique approach combines… Read More

VINSE welcomes Thorlabs as the newest member of the Industry Affiliates Program. Thorlabs is a leading designer and manufacturer of photonics equipment for research, manufacturing, and biomedical applications. Founded in 1989, Thorlabs is headquartered in Newton, New Jersey with approximately 2,500 employees at manufacturing and sales offices in the United… Read More

We are excited to announce that DISCO Hi-Tech America, Inc. has joined the VINSE Industry Affiliates Program, becoming its inaugural member! DISCO Corporation, a renowned manufacturer of precision processing equipment and tooling, specializes in producing dicing saws and laser saws for cutting semiconductor silicon wafers and various materials. Additionally, DISCO… Read More

Congratulations to Ikjun Hong! Ikjun’s article “Hybrid Optical and Diffusiophoretic Nanomanipulation Using All-Dielectric Anapole-Enhanced Thermonanophotonics” has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. Ikjun Hong is a third-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the guidance of Dr. Justus Ndukaife. Dr. Ndukaife’s research group… Read More

Congratulations to Mingze He and Levi Hoogendoorn! Their article “Guided Polaritons along the Forbidden Direction in MoO3 with Geometrical Confinement” has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. Mingze He is a 2023 Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Joshua D. Caldwell. Read More

Congratulations to Everett Allchin! Everett’s paper “Generalized Strategy for Engineering Mammalian Cell-Compatible RNA-Based Biosensors from Random Sequence Libraries” has been selected as a VINSE Spotlight Publication. This work by Allchin et al. from the Lippmann lab designed a framework for producing mammalian cell-compatible biosensors using aptamers selected from a large… Read More

Three engineering graduate students in the Vanderbilt 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