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Rowland Junior Fellows 2009

The Rowland Junior Fellows are selected to perform independent experimental research for five years, with full institutional support and access to the Institute's outstanding technical and scientific resources. The number of Rowland Junior Fellows will equal about ten over five years, with the first nine already appointed. Candidates in all the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology,...) as well as in engineering will be considered, with special attention given to interdisciplinary work and to the development of new experimental methods.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES -

Postdoctoral positions are available in Chris Richard's Propulsion Physiology Lab. There are also undergraduate opportunities.

NEWS

RJF Andrew Speck and Post-doc Pankaj Mandal report on "Half-cycle-pulse-train induced state redistribution of Rydberg atoms".
Shriram Ramanathan's group report on the synthesis and functional properties of nanoscale dense Y-doped zirconia electrolyte thin films , of potential relevance in advancing low temperature ultra-thin oxide membrane synthesis for energy applications.
Also- Shriram Ramanathan and Sahand Hormoz investigate the"Limits on vanadium oxide Mott metal-insulator transition field-effect transistors".
RJF Ozgur Sahin's Nanomechanical Sensing Group are in the news with "Computer-rendered flexibility map of Bacteriorhodposin"
Shriram Ramanathan is editor of recently published book Thin Film Metal-Oxides - a representative account of the fundamental structure-property relations in oxide thin films.
RJF Ozgur Sahin is in the spotlight! See Nature letter - DNA nanomechanics allows direct digital detection of complementary DNA and microRNA targets and commentary.
The upper surface of an Escherichia coli swarm is stationary A new paper from the Berg lab, where they "deposited MgO smoke particles on the top surface of an E. coli swarm near its advancing edge, where cells move in a single layer, and then followed the motion of the particles by dark-field microscopy and the motion of the underlying cells by phase-contrast microscopy."
RJF David Cox and MIT collaborators are in the news with research that combines screening techniques from molecular biology with low-cost high-performance gaming hardware by NVIDIA to build better artificial visual systems! See their article - A High-Throughput Screening Approach to Discovering Good Forms of Biologically Inspired Visual Representation.
See commentary articles:
Researchers rethink approaches to computer vision. ,
Better artificial vision using Nvidia GPUs and PS3 gaming devices. ,
Team creates better artificial vision system. ,
and Researchers Demonstrate a Better Way for Computers to 'See'.