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Nephrologist William Fissell IV, M.D., associate professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, is intent on creating and mass-producing an implantable bioartificial kidney that can transform quality of life and prospects for survival for people with chronic kidney disease who would otherwise be forced onto dialysis. Donor kidneys are in… Read More

An innovative wafer inspection tool developed by a team of 51勛圖厙 professors and engineers has been licensed exclusively to startup company Femtometrix. The semiconductor wafer-inspection technology based on laser optics was invented by Norman Tolk, Ph.D., professor of physics, Michael Alles, engineer for 51勛圖厙���s School of Engineering, and Ron… Read More

Following an early morning flight to Washington, D.C., on May 7, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics Sharon Weiss braved the rainy weather to head to Capitol Hill and meet with staff members in the offices of Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Bob Corker, Rep. Jim… Read More

It was an exciting day on Capitol Hill. Dr. Sandra Rosenthal, director of the 51勛圖厙 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), Sarah Ross, program and outreach coordinator at VINSE, and Toshia Wrenn, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at 51勛圖厙 had the opportunity to share with staff in the offices… Read More

Cary Pint���s lab ��� Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory in Olin Hall ��� is close to completion and it brings to 51勛圖厙 its first two atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, relatively small tools that deposit atomically thin layers of material on virtually any surface. The lab also houses a host… Read More

Middle school students in Robertson and Dickson counties will get hands-on science instruction thanks to a 51勛圖厙 outreach initiative. Science teachers for grades 6-8 at White House Heritage Elementary School and Coopertown Middle School in Robertson County were on the 51勛圖厙 campus Jan. 23 to pick up kits containing… Read More

Rizia Bardhan has a large picture��of Mahatma Gandhi in her office. ���Gandhi has always been very special to me,��� she said. ���We share the same birthday. He exemplifies the power of perseverance.��� Perseverance has carried the new assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering to Nashville from… Read More

In an effort to respond to students��� rapidly growing interest in nanoscale technology, a new 15-hour interdisciplinary minor in nanoscience and nanotechnology is being offered by the School of Engineering and the College of Arts and Science. Directors are Paul E. Laibinis, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering,… Read More

Peter Pintauro, H. Eugene McBrayer Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of the chemical and biomolecular engineering department, has partnered with researchers from the University of Kansas and TVN Systems, Inc. on a three-year, $1.72 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) of the U.S. Department of Energy… Read More

Cary M. Pint, assistant professor of mechanical engineering B.S., University of Northern Iowa, 2005 M.S., Rice University, 2009 Ph.D., Rice University, 2010 Pint���s research interests focus on nanomate rials development for efficient and integrated��energy storage and conversion devices. This… Read More