Welcome to The Rowland Institute at Harvard

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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.

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WHAT'S NEW

Frank Vollmer's Biofunctional Photonics Laboratory detects single virus particles using whispering gallery mode resonant shifts. Reported this month in PNAS .

Howard Berg's Bacterial Motility Laboratory shows that bacterial flagella are firmly anchored. In another study with George Whiteside's lab they use microfluidic rachets and sorters to fractionate motile E. Coli.

RJF Ozgur Sahin, PI of the Nanomechanical Sensing Group, reports on high-resolution and large dynamic range nanomechanical mapping in tapping-mode atomic force microscopy in this month's Nanotechnology Sahin's measurements reveal high-resolution maps of elastic modulus, adhesion force, energy dissipation, and topography all generated simultaneously in a single scan.

Rowland's Symmetry & Chirality group, RJF Peer Fischer with post-doc Ambarish Ghosh, collaborate with Nick Sheridon from Xerox to make the first particles that have both an electric and a magnetic dipole moment. See their article: “Voltage-Controllable Magnetic Composite Based on Multifunctional Polyethylene Microparticles”

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