Engineering
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Capstone app project for MOOC to manage cancer patients’ pain
1,165 budding programmers are participating in the university’s first MOOC capstone project – one that will result in a certificate for graduates and better pain management for patients at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read MoreOct 24, 2014
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Game theory can help predict crime before it occurs
A team headed by Eugene Vorobeychik, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, uses game theory and big data to optimize policing. Read MoreOct 21, 2014
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Vanderbilt exoskeleton clinical trial discussed at leadership exchange
Some of Denver’s top executives learned Oct. 16 how collaboration across Vanderbilt University schools and departments leads to world-changing technology. But they also found out about a collaboration closer to their home – a clinical trial at Denver’s renowned Craig Hospital involving its spinal cord rehabilitation patients and Vanderbilt researcher Michael Goldfarb’s robotic lower-limb exoskeleton. Read MoreOct 17, 2014
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New faculty: Zelik explores biological mechanisms behind human movement
Karl Zelik’s BAT lab in Olin Hall has nothing to do with flying mammals or a caped superhero. Read MoreOct 16, 2014
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Brain surgery through the cheek
Vanderbilt engineers have developed a surgical robot designed to perform brain surgery by entering through the cheek instead of the skull. Read MoreOct 15, 2014
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Fluid power industry, academic leaders discuss advances
An expert panel featuring Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and moderated by Engineering Dean Philippe Fauchet gathered at Vanderbilt’s Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability on Tuesday to discuss ways that America can keep its edge in fluid power. Read MoreOct 15, 2014
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Air Force general, astronaut was almost neither: Q&A
Kevin Chilton will visit Vanderbilt on Oct. 24 to share his experiences. Read MoreOct 10, 2014
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New facility devoted to multiscale modeling opens on Music Row
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering has established a unique research facility focusing on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. MuMS is home to four faculty members and their research groups. Read MoreOct 2, 2014
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NSF grants for Sociology, Earth and Environmental Sciences
The NSF has awarded a pair of grants to Vanderbilt researchers for the study of local water conservation policies across the nation and the role of litigation in social activism, respectively. Read MoreOct 1, 2014
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Leadership, diversity, academic talent define newest Vanderbilt class
Vanderbilt University’s newest class is the most academically prepared and the most ethnically, economically and geographically diverse in Vanderbilt’s history Read MoreSep 30, 2014
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New University Faculty 2014-15
View a complete list of new university faculty for the 2014-15 academic year. Read MoreSep 30, 2014
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Will Grissom makes problem-solving nerds look cool
“I live for the problems we get to solve,” says Will Grissom, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, radiology and electrical engineering. Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Aerospace Club Wins NASA Rocketry Competition
For the second year in a row, students from Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club won NASA’s annual Student Launch rocketry competition, beating out teams from 31 other universities, including Cornell, Northwestern and Notre Dame. Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Kimberly Bryant, BE’89, Is Changing the Face of High-Tech with Black Girls Code
The mission of Bryant's nonprofit organization, Black Girls Code, is to reach out to minority girls age 7 to 17 from all socioeconomic levels, and teach them about computer technology—from creating websites and writing computer applications to crafting computer games and working in robotics. Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Tech Giants, Engineers to Create Standards for ‘Internet of Things’
A new group called the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)—which includes Vanderbilt engineers and researchers in the university’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS)—announced plans in March to create engineering standards for the “Internet of Things.” Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Research Roundup, Summer 2014
Private Property and Government Inaction | Probiotic Could Prevent Obesity | Freedom from Power Cords | Pickiness Doesn’t Always Pay Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Valdastri wins $1.5 million to develop magnetic capsule endoscope
Mechanical engineering professor Pietro Valdastri and colleagues will continue to develop a capsule endoscope for colonoscopy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease with the support of a 4-year, $1.5 million NIH grant. Read MoreSep 23, 2014
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Pint named to ’20 Under 40′ by American Society for Engineering Education
Cary Pint, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory at Vanderbilt University, was named to the American Society for Engineering Education’s Top 20 Under 40 last week. Read MoreSep 23, 2014
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BME doctoral student receives Department of Defense fellowship
Oscar Ayala, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt, has been awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense. Read MoreSep 23, 2014
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Hall stepping down as vice provost for research and dean of Graduate School
Dennis G. Hall, professor of physics and of electrical engineering, will step down as vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate School Dec. 31, 2014. Read MoreSep 22, 2014