2021

Dec 20, 2021

Happy Holidays From AIF

Our facility has had a very busy and successful year. We welcomed back our staff and users this year and have enjoyed seeing many of you in our labs. If…

Dec 16, 2021

Meet Landon Keller

My name is Landon Keller. I am a 2nd year graduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, working under Dr. Gregory Parsons. Our lab conducts research related to nanofabrication of…

Dec 16, 2021

2021 Carolina Science Symposium Recap

The 2021 Carolina Science Symposium, co-organized by the AVS Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Carolinas Central Chapter of ASM International, and local MRS chapter, successfully held their annual event virtually on November 11-12…

Nov 19, 2021

9th Annual AIF Best Paper Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating the 2021 winners!  The AIF holds a contest each year for the best papers written by students. This year, we selected the award recipients from…

Nov 18, 2021

Dr. Chris Winkler Wins Pride of the Wolfpack Award

Congratulations to our TEM Lab Manager, Chris Winkler, for winning the NC State Pride of the Wolfpack Award!   Chris Winkler is a lab manager and a top electron microscopist…

Nov 16, 2021

Meet Sandra Stangeland-Molo

I’m a 4th year PhD candidate in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC Chapel Hill and NC State. My PI is Dr. Jacqueline Cole and we study orthopaedic…

Nov 15, 2021

BioEM & Imaging at AIF

On behalf of the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF), we are excited to give you a brief update on our Bio-EM group.    We have a few additional instruments accepting reservations:…

Oct 14, 2021

2021 AIF “Best Papers” Wanted

We are pleased to announce the competition for the ninth annual Best Paper Award for work performed, in part, at the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF), NC State’s primary shared facility for materials characterization.    …

Oct 13, 2021

Meet Lydia Skolrood

Tell me a little about yourself! I’m Lydia Skolrood, a second-year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Qingshan Wei in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering here at…

Sep 29, 2021

A Farewell to AIF

As many of you know, we were recently awarded an NSF Science and Technology Center, otherwise known as an STC. STCs are among the most prestigious of NSF Centers and…