Vinh Diep is the 2011 Elmer Carvey
Memorial Scholarship Winner!
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The winner of the 2011 Elmer
Carvey Scholarship is Vinh Diep, an undergraduate student at University of
California, San Diego, majoring in Nanoengineering. He is performing undergraduate research
with Professor Michael Sailor. Mr.
Diep proposed the use of porous silicon-based optical films in drug delivery systems.
For example, these nanomaterials might deliver drugs such as insulin in a
more controlled fashion, resulting in better efficacy and reduced side
effects. He is using a number of chemical and nanostructural techniques to
follow the loading and release of insulin and other molecules from chemically
modified porous silicon. His results have been submitted for publication. In
addition to his productive research at UCSD,
in a highly competitive process, Mr. Diep obtained a summer internship at the
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network at UC Santa Barbara. The Elmer Carvey Memorial
Scholarship was established in honor of Elmer Carvey, an active member of the
SCCAVS from 1964 until 1982. The Scholarship is awarded to undergraduate
students attending public, four-year colleges in California who are planning
careers in areas of interest to the society, which include vacuum science and
vacuum-related technologies that include surface and thin film science,
nanotechnology, the understanding of materials properties, and the
development of new materials (see http://sccavs.org/about.htm). The stipend is $1,500.00 for one
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