5 Brown faculty elected to world's largest scien... (rbi has also been very active in biomedi...)

5 Brown faculty elected to world's largest scientific body

Date:12/18/2008

rbi has also been very active in biomedical Ph.D. training. Among her activities: She served on NIH study sections reviewing training grants and participated in NIH workshops about training and careers. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences committee that worked on the "Study of National Needs for Biomedical Research Personnel," and has testified about graduate education before both the House and Senate Subcommittees on Appropriations.

Gerbi has received several honors for her research, including the State of Rhode Island Governor's Award for Scientific Excellence and election as president of the American Society for Cell Biology.

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Xu was recognized for his contributions to advances in laser science, nanotechnology and bio-nanoelectronics. Xu is the Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. '32 University Professor in the Division of Engineering and professor of physics. His interests include nanoscale science and technology, quantum photonics, aperiodic optics, semiconductor lasers, molecular electro-optics, and collective behaviors of large coupled systems.

Xu's ongoing research includes carbon nanotube structures, physics, and applications; silicon lasers and sub-wavelength photonics; synthesis and non-lithographic fabrication and sciences of quantum-arrays made from metals, superconducting, molecules and semiconductors; DNA conductivity; and the physics of redox processes in proteins and cells.

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Contact: Mark Hollmer
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401-863-1862
Brown University
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