Tuan Vo-Dinh, a pioneer in the field of photonics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has joined the department of biomedical engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering

Who better to invent "nanorice" than researchers at Rice University? But marketing and whimsy weren't what motivated the team of engineers, physicists and chemists from Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) to make rice-shaped particles of gold and iron oxide.

This year, for the first time, ZJU is awarding the honorary professorship not to a world leader or to a Nobel laureate, but to a University at Buffalo scientist who has earned a global reputation as a leader in the fields of photonics, biophotonics and nanophotonics, as well as a champion of world-class scientific research in developing countries.