Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Dellinger from the Department of Nanoengineering for receiving a three-year competitive grant from the National Science Foundation’s Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Division in the Engineering Directorate. The project, entitled “Excellence in Research: Stimuli-Responsive Exosomes for Quantitative Biosensing”, is funded by the Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Excellence in […]

North Carolina A&T State University’s annual Celebration of Faculty Excellence, an evening to celebrate and reward excellence in teaching, advising, research, and community engagement, was held this year on May 11th.  Several faculty members from the Department of Nanoengineering were recognized for their professional accomplishments, including Dr. Shanthi Iyer, who received the Intellectual Property Award for […]

Congratulations to Dr. Hemali Rathnayake from the Department of Nanoscience for receiving a competitive four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to support a project entitled “A New Concept for a Programmable Capacitive Charge Injection in Live Cells using Molecular Magnetism”. The research is sponsored by DoD’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and […]

Congratulations to Dr.Kristen Dellinger from the Department of Nanoengineering for receiving a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a project entitled “A Diagnostic Platform for Extracellular Vesicle-Derived Biomarkers – Towards Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease”.  The proposed research is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and […]

Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW), celebrated on campuses across the United States the first full week in April every year, recognizes the contributions, impact, and value of graduate students on research, teaching, and service.  At the JSNN, faculty and staff honor GSAW with a series of events designed to advance the professional development of graduate students […]

New Department of Defense (DOD) Grants Dr. Tetyana Ignatova and her collaborators received a grant from in the amount of $525,000 from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for a project entitled “Advanced Tunable and Functional Materials for Soldier Protection”. Dr. Kristen Dellinger, along with a group of colleagues in the Department of Nanoengineering, received […]

North Carolina Biotechnology Center Award for Biotechnology Support/Service Excellence Award                                                                   The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering’s Institute for Research Technologies (JSIRT) received the Biotechnology Support/Service Excellence Award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. JSIRT was established in 2019 and its purpose is to serve as a one-stop location to support research and development in […]

NANO NIGHT FOR BOY SCOUTS TROOP 216 JSNN hosted Nano Night, a new outreach activity organized by Dr. Kristen Dellinger. This program is dedicated to local Boy Scouts and Troop 216 leaders to learn about scientific principles through nanotechnology. Find Your STEM Conference In March, JSNN hosted the Find Your STEM conference for girls in […]

NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR’S DISTINGUISHED FELLOWSHIP Jessica Norcott, a Nanoengineering Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Kristen Dellinger, was awarded the NC A&T Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship for her Ph.D. studies. ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH DIRECTORS, INC. AWARD Bahare Salehi won the first-place presentation award for outstanding achievement in Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change.  […]

Dr. Prithviraj Deshmukh is a Technology Development Process Engineer in the Thin-Films Module of the Logic Technology Development division at Intel Corporation. Intel is the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and supplies microprocessors for computer system manufacturers such as Acer, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. The rapid advancements in chip design and miniaturization have […]