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2007

Sarah Larsen, Associate Director of NNI@UI , has been awarded funds from the National Science Foundation for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, beginning the summer of 2008. Funding is expected to support 8-10 undergrad students to participate in summer research opportunities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Michael Flatté, NNI@UI Executive Committee Member, and Paul Kleiber, NNI@UI Core Faculty Member, professors in The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy, have been awarded the distinction of 2007 Fellow of the American Physical Society, the foremost organization of its kind for the advancement of physics.
(http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/december/120607fellows_aps.html)
NNI@UI held the first of three events in its Fall 2007 Symposium Series, Bridging the River Through Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, on September 27, 2007. Several distinguished invited speakers, including keynote speaker, Dr. Donn Dennis from the University of Florida College of Medicine, presented their research on health aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology and participated in a panel discussion on NanoHealth: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Clinical and Translational Medicine. (http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2007/09/28/Metro/Researchers.Thinking.Small-2999833.shtml)
NNI@UI is part of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) received in September, 2007. The CTSA is a 5-year, $33.8 million award, the second-largest research award in UI history. (http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/research/news/index.html)
Sarah Larsen, Associate Director of NNI@UI, was named Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, published by the American Chemical Society.
Vicki Grassian, NNI@UI Director, recently became a member of the scientific advisory board of Northern Nanotechnologies, Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada.
Thomas Peters, NNI@UI Executive Committee member, Occupational and Environmental Health, has been awarded a 3-year NIOSH grant for $300,000 entitled Personal Exposure to Engineered Nanoparticles. .
UI research scientist, Jun Ni, along with Shaoping Xiao, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, receives a $240,000 NSF grant entitled "A Merging Multi-scale Model for Simulation of Crystallization/Solidification of Nanostructured Materials on Large-scale Parallel Computing Systems."
UI’s Haes named 2007 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator for research in engineering novel plasmonic nanoparticles for optimized surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
UI’s Haes wins 2007 Victor K. LaMer Award from the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division of the ACS, with lecture “Designing Novel Biosensors from the Nanoscale Up” at the 81st ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium,June 24-27, 2007. (http://acs.confex.com/acs/csss07/techprogram/MEETING.HTM)
UI's Flatté teaches Honors Seminar entitled "Nanoscience".
UI's Flatté publishes Review Article "Challenges for semiconductor spintronics" in Nature Physics.
UI's Flatté publishes Research Article "Warping a single Mn acceptor wavefunction by straining the GaAs host" in Nature Materials.
UI research scientist, Jun Ni, receives grant of supercomputer valued at $500,000 from Intel Corporation for use in Medical Imaging.
UI’s O’Shaughnessy selected as competition judge for Lego League’s NANO QUEST challenge state championship.
Russell Larsen, NNI@UI's Outreach Coordinator, named to the Editorial Board of The Journal of Nano Education (http://www.aspbs.com/jne/).
Graduate Student Sherrie Elzey (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering) won the prestigious 2007 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for research focused on applications and implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology as it relates to environmental processes, and developing new methods for nanoparticle characterization (http://www.cbe.engineering.uiowa.edu/news/index.html).