Engineering
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Genetics may have played a role in student’s cancer research grant award
In July, Alex Walsh will step up to a podium in Saarbrucken, Germany and deliver a talk on optical metabolic imaging at an international workshop on Advanced Multiphoton and Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques. It’s her prize for winning this year’s JenLab Young Investigator Award – one of several awards recently bestowed… Read MoreJun 21, 2013
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VUCast: See advances in this robotic hand; get a special view of Commodore baseball
In this week’s VUCast: Bionic Breakthrough: See advances in this robotic hand What Vandy doctors are doing with the military to avoid amputations See a special view of Commodore baseball All this and more in this week’s VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreJun 12, 2013
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Cal Turner Fellows laid groundwork on Nashville housing fund
A group of Cal Turner Fellows who brought renewed attention through a two-year research project to Nashville's dire need for more affordable housing help lay the foundation for Mayor Karl Dean’s recent announcement on a housing trust fund. Read MoreJun 10, 2013
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Kofi Dadzie, BE’00, Wunderkind of West Africa
During a 1997 summer internship, Vanderbilt mechanical engineering student Kofi Dadzie had a brilliant idea: Enormous opportunities awaited someone who could bring a combination of business principles and information technology to his homeland, Ghana. Read MoreJun 9, 2013
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MOOCs and more to be led, studied by new Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning
Massive open online courses and other digital learning platforms will be the focus of a new institute being launched this fall at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreMay 29, 2013
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VUCast: Why Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift put Vanderbilt in their newest music video
In this week’s VUCast: See a student invention to save babies from hot cars. Why Nashville stars Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift put Vanderbilt in their latest video. How you could win $10,000 in a new Vandy app contest. All this and more in this week’s VUCast,… Read MoreMay 28, 2013
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Weiss participates in NSF advocacy day
As part of Vanderbilt’s ongoing federal advocacy efforts in support of federal funding for research and education at the National Science Foundation, Sharon Weiss, associate professor of electrical engineering and physics, traveled to Washington, D.C., for the Coalition for National Science Funding’s (CNSF) advocacy day and Capitol Hill reception on May 7. Read MoreMay 10, 2013
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Vanderbilt honors top graduates during Commencement
Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos presented Founder’s Medals to the university’s top scholars during Commencement on May 10. Read MoreMay 10, 2013
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Learning in MOOC Years
"Eight weeks and 30,000 students gave me a crash course in the future of digital learning technologies," writes engineering professor Doug Schmidt in this Vanderbilt Magazine column on his experience teaching one of Vanderbilt University's first massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Read MoreMay 8, 2013
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Newsmakers: Vanderbilt’s teaching, research and patient care efforts are making an impact
These stories from the past year show how Vanderbilt is making an impact, on campus and in the world. Read MoreMay 6, 2013
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Aladine Elsamadicy wants to bridge cultural divides
Aladine Elsamadicy (Lauren Holland/Vanderbilt) Aladine Elsamadicy says he didn’t feel singled out for his Egyptian heritage or Muslim faith while growing up in Alabama—not until Sept. 11, 2001, that is. He was in the fifth grade at the time. Elsamadicy and his siblings were suddenly more conspicuous at their… Read MoreMay 6, 2013
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Josh Shannon wants to pioneer biomedical discoveries
Josh Shannon (Lauren Holland/Vanderbilt) Growing up in Spring Hill, Fla., Josh Shannon did almost everything with his identical twin, Michael. So when it was time for the academically talented brothers to apply to colleges, naturally there was some overlap. “We weren’t set on going to the same school, but… Read MoreMay 6, 2013
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Tracking gunfire with a smartphone
A team of computer engineers from Vanderbilt University’s Institute of Software Integrated Systems has developed an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location system. Read MoreApr 25, 2013
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Aerospace club wins payload design category of annual NASA rocket contest
For the fourth year in a row, the Best Payload Design award went to the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club in the 12th annual NASA University Student Launch Initiative Sunday, April 21, in a field at Bragg Farms in Toney, Ala. This is the sixth year the club has entered the national rocketry competition. Read MoreApr 22, 2013
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Seniors earn Aeronautics Institute win before Design Day debut
A novel redesign of industrial exhaust stacks that could result in 12% energy savings has earned a Vanderbilt student design team a second-place win in the team division at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region II conference last week. Read MoreApr 17, 2013
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Improved vacuum cleaner, smart infant car seat to be featured at Senior Design Day
Engineering majors will exhibit solutions to real-life engineering challenges proposed by clients with real design needs, including a next-generation vaccum cleaner and a smart car seat that alerts parents to children left in hot cars. Read MoreApr 16, 2013
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Design experience counts for Engineering seniors and their clients
Engineering seniors have spent two semesters tackling design challenges from actual clients with real design needs. The results of their design projects will be featured at Design Day 2013, an annual School of Engineering event, Friday, April 19, 3-5 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. Read MoreApr 12, 2013
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements
Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read MoreApr 10, 2013
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Tabletop plasma generator brings Jupiter’s core to the lab
A Vanderbilt engineering graduate student has created a small-scale, efficient way to produce high-energy density plasma--the state of matter found in the center of stars and gas giants like Jupiter--with a tabletop device. Read MoreApr 9, 2013
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ME student selected for 2013 NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program
Theodore Malik Russell has received early acceptance notice to take part in the 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md. Read MoreApr 8, 2013