Author: chcadenh

Dr. Yogesh K. Vohra Receives Award for Interdisciplinary Initiatives

Yogesh K Vohra-2Dr. Yogesh K. Vohra, Professor of Physics, University Scholar and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials and Biointegration (CNMB) is the recipient of the 2016 Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award.  Dr. Vohra has a tremendous ability to bring disciplines together for collaborative efforts and it’s this inherent ability that has garnered him this recognition.

In addition to the above-mentioned positions, Dr. Vohra is the Campus Director for the NASA – Alabama Space Grant Consortium as well as Director one of the longest running National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs (REU).

2016 REU Expo Winners

2016 REU Expo Winners

2016 REU Expo Winners (1)
2016 Physics Expo Winners Julian Dover and Jacob Norman

Congratulations are in order for two of our Research Experiences for Undergraduate participants.  Both of them placed 2nd in the Expo’s poster session on Thursday, July 21, 2016.

Julian DoverREU Julian Dover placed 2nd in the Engineering category. He won for his research titled Alternative Replacement for Birmingham, Alabama Concrete Storm Drain Covers. His mentors were Dr. Selvum Pillay and Mr. Benjamin Willis (Material Sciences and Engineering).  Julian is a Junior at Chicago State University.

 

Jacob NormanREU Jacob Norman placed 2nd in the Physical Sciences category.  He won for his
research titled Theranostic Polymer Agents for Ultrasound Therapy and Controlled Drug Release. His mentor for the summer was Dr. Eugenia Kharlampieva (Chemistry). Jacob is a sophomore bioengineering student at the University of California Berkeley.

Both participants were supported by National Science Foundation (Grant Number DMR # DMR 1460392) – Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) award to UAB

Congratulations Julian and Jacob and all of the other Expo w.  Great job.

You can see more pictures from the Expo here.

 

Application Deadline for REU Ended April 1, 2016

Deadline for REU Applications Ended April 1, 2016

REU 2016 LogoWe are pleased with the tremendous response to our call for applications to our Research Experience for Undergraduates program for summer 2016 here at UAB.  Given the hundreds of applications that we received, the competition was quite impressive.  The names of our 2016 REU participants will be posted as soon as all offers have been made and accepted.

We thank every applicant for their interest in our program and we hope that all eligible applicants will apply again next year.  In the meantime, for those well deserving applicants that applied and were not selected, we are hopeful that many of them were selected to other programs.

Updated:  April 7, 2016 – Meet our 2016 REU Participants

 

Congrats to Physics Graduate Student Sonal Singh

Congrats to Physics Graduate Student Sonal Singh

SonalCongratulations to Sonal Singh and co-authors for their recently accepted manuscript. The paper entitled ”Spatially Controlled Fabrication of Brightly Fluorescent Nanodiamond-Array with Enhanced Far-Red Si-V Luminescence” (by Sonal Singh, Vinoy Thomas, Dmitri Martyshkin, Veronika Kozlovskaya, Eugenia Kharlampieva, and Shane Catledge) will appear in the JournalNanotechnology. The paper will be available online to readers at http://iopscience.org/. This work demonstrates a novel approach to precisely pattern fluorescent nanodiamond-arrays with enhanced far-red intense photostable luminescence from silicon-vacancy (Si-V) defect centers.The precision-patterned pre-growth seeding of nanodiamonds is achieved by a scanning probe “Dip-Pen” nanolithography technique using electrostatically-driven transfer of nanodiamonds from “inked” cantilevers. The enhanced emission from nanodiamond-dots in the far-red is achieved by incorporating Si-V defect centers in subsequent chemical vapor deposition treatment. The authors anticipate that the far-red intense photostable luminescence (~738 nm) observed from Si-V defect centers integrated in spatially arranged nanodiamonds could be beneficial for the development of the next generation fluorescent based devices and applications.