The 1st Annual SCI Transdisciplinary Symposium held on April 26, 2016 was a great success!
We had over 100 total registered participants and 50 speakers presenting on topics. The full program information is available online here.
Due to the generous support of participating departments (Bioengineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Chemistry; Materials Science and NanoEngineering) and the John J. Fannaly Nanotechnology Fund, we were able to award a total of 18 travel awards to students listed below.
2016 Transdisciplinary Symposium Winners
| Jennifer Burnett | Bioengineering/ APPL | Hemozoin Absorbance Signal Feature Analysis for the Accurate Classification of Malaria-Infected Erythrocytes |
| Gisele Calderon | Bioengineering | Developing microvasculature in engineered tissue |
| Ian Kinstlinger | Bioengineering | Engineered tissues with perfusable vascular networks created by sacrificial templating of laser sintered carbohydrates |
| Samantha Paulsen | Bioengineering | 3D Printing Vascularized Tissues: Closing the Loop between Computational and Experimental Models |
| Tien Tang | Bioengineering | Using imaging derived features to characterize radiation response |
| Shaghayegh Agah | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Photoluminescence Properties Spectroscopic Characterization of Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube |
| Vida Jamali | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Wetting behavior, Shape, and Morphology of Sessile Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Micro-droplets on Solid Surfaces |
| Elisabeth Bianco | Chemistry | Toward Selenene: A Two-Dimensional Topological Insulator |
| Lizanne Nilewski | Chemistry | Carbon Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications as Antioxidants and Drug Delivery Vehicles |
| Kyle Smith | Chemistry | Chiral and Achiral Nanodumbbell Dimers: The Effect of Geometry on Plasmonic Properties |
| Dayne Swearer | Chemistry | Pd decorated aluminum antenna-reactor nanoparticles for hot-carrier driven photochemistry |
| Peng (Patrick) Sun | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Non-Contact Strain-Sensing Smart Skin |
| Hui Zhang | Electrical & Computer Engineering | What is a plasmon: a comprehensive study on its origin from few-electron nanoclusters to carrier-dense noble metals |
| Rashad Baiyasi | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Characterization and fitting of complex fluorescence point spread functions |
| Marco Tulio Fonseca Rodrigues | Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Electrolyte Composite for Li-Ion Battery Operation from Room Temperature to 150 °C |
| Matias Soto | Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Study of the dopant adsorption on carbon-nanotube-substrates and its effect on the electronic structure. |
| Eduardo Villarreal | Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Single Gold Nanoparticles as Localized Plasmonic Transducers |
| Alessandro Alabastri | Physics and Astronomy (also ECE) | Nano-photonics Enhanced Membrane Distillation |