News and Events

• Nanoscience-Neuroscience Workshop
  On Monday, Sept. 28th the Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation (IMNI) and the Brown Institute for Brain Science (BIBS) will hold a joint workshop to explore the multifaceted interface between nanoscience and neuroscience.
• Professor L. Ben Freund has developed a mathematical analysis of the resistance generated by a molecular bond as it is forcibly separated.  Read about this work at the interface of mechanics and biochemistry in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 22 June 2, 2009
• U.S. Dept of Education award GAANN grant to IMNI's NanoHealth Initiative for "Interdisciplinary Training in Applications and Implications of Nanotechnology" - August 2009.

• IMNI Awards Summer Internships in June 2009

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• Prof Rod Beresford is organizing the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering grantees' conference in December 2008
  

• IMNI Awards Summer Internships in June 2008
  

• IMNI Researchers in Nature Nanotechnology
  

• Brown University is searching for NanoScience Chemist

• IMNI Outreach at the Boston Science Museum's NanoDays on March 30, 2008

• IMNI faculty Agnes Kane and Robert Hurt receive 1.5$ MM grant from NIEHS to study the mechanisms of granuloma formation in the biological response to carbon nanotubes

• IMNI holds regional workshop on Nanomaterials and Living Systems, October 17, 2007

• President Simmons and the Brown Corporation approve the formation of IMNI and the Center for Nanoscience and Soft Matter (May 2007)

• Nanotechnology books published by IMNI faculty Webster, Xu, and Zaslavsky

  
  

• Small Forum held on Brown campus, February 2007

• Prof. Rand in the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology receives seed fund grant to lead a multidisciplinary team in the study of nanomaterial effects on fruit fly viability and genetics