News and Events

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  a special event on the Brown campus May 5-7 2008 to celebrate the establishment of the new Institute.   Brown researchers will interact with distinguished invited guests from academia, government, and industry in a series of three workshops on our main themes: Advanced Materials (Monday, May 5), Nanoscience (Tuesday, May 6), and NanoHealth (Wednesday, May 7).

• 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