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Entrepreneurial engineer Dr. Mehdi M.
Yazdanpanah is recipient of a Kauffman Entrepreneur Postdoctoral Fellowship
from Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
link.
Dr. Mehdi M. Yazdanpanah also received a Vogt award from Enterprise Corporation of Greater
Louisville Inc. and the Community Foundation of Louisville.
ERINC member (Alphenaar) publication on Exitons in Nanotubes
in Nature Nanotechnology
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supplementary information
ERINC members (Cohn and Mengüç) visited Escuela Superior Politecnica
del Litoral (ESPOL) in
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Pinar Menguc (U. Kentucky Mechanical Engineering Prof and
ERINC member) has developed an exchange program with ESPOL. He (together with
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Professor Cecilia Parades, ESPOL) invited Profs.
Robert Cohn and Mehmet
Toner (Bioengineering, Harvard) to visit ESPOL to advise them on how to start a
Nanotechnology Center, including PhD program. In addition to the US Speakers
and Prof. Parades, other panelists and speakers included the Associate Director
of Ecuador's NSF and an ESPOL faculty member in Engineering and Business who is
noted for entrepreneurship.
The conference was attended by around 200 people including faculty, industry and
the general public. It was timed to coincide with ESPOL's 50th anniversary,
which was celebrated with a major banquet at the Simon Bolivar Convention
Center. In conjunction with the visit, Profs. Cohn and Toner were interviewed by at least two TV
stations and at least two newspapers. One photo shows several of them immediately
after the interview on nanotechnology at CN3 television station. The interview
ran 15 minutes and was broadcast in its entirety on national TV at 7PM that same
day. There was also a dinner with the Rector (President) of ESPOL, Vice Rector,
Cecilia and several of her staff and associates on the first night of the
conference.
As part of the visit, an informal trip was also arranged to visit Ecuador's
famous Galapagos Islands. Photos of a few of their most famous denizens are
included in the movie.
ERINC paper selected as
Cover and
Featured Article for the Journal
Nanotechnology
(overview)
Nanotechnology Courses offered
for Fall 2009
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