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 […]

A team of faculty members in the JSNN Department of Nanoscience, led by Assistant Professor Tetyana Ignatova, has received a grant ($525,000) from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for a project entitled “Advanced Tunable and Functional Materials for Soldier Protection”. Collaborators on this award include Professors Daniel Herr, Eric Josephs, Dennis LaJeunesse, Yirong Mo, […]

Assistant Professor Dr. Kristen Dellinger, along with a group of collaborators in the Department of Nanoengineering, has been awarded a grant ($525,000) from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for a collaborative project entitled “Advanced Materials for Chemical and Biological Sensor Technology to Protect the Soldier”.  Selected by researchers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities […]

Congratulations to Prof. Shyam Aravamudhan from the Department of Nanoengineering for being part of a team that recently received a $10.35 million four-year grant to establish a Center for Electrochemical Dynamics and Reactions on Surfaces (CEDARS) at NC A&T. This new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy as […]

Dr. Javier García-Martínez, a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Alicante in Spain and President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), visited the JSNN on Thursday, August 25.  It was quite an honor since it was the first time ever that an IUPAC President is in town and visits […]

Congratulations to Dr. Suzanne Ahmed from the Department of Nanoscience for receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation’s new Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS) program. The award will support Dr. Ahmed’s research on the synthesis of artificial cilia, the hair-like appendages that enable fluid pumping and locomotion in […]

The week of August 8, 2022 was an exciting one for Dr. Eric Josephs, an Assistant Professor at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering’s (JSNN) Department of Nanoscience. His lab was informed that they had won two grants from the NIH: A R21 from the NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for $400,000 […]