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  • Karl Zelik receives distinguished Goel Award for translational research in biomechanics

    Karl Zelik receives distinguished Goel Award for translational research in biomechanics

    Karl Zelik, associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation, is being recognized for his contributions to the field of biomechanics with a prestigious Goel Award from the American Society of Biomechanics. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in translational biomechanics research, entrepreneurship, and societal benefit. Zelik co-directs the Center for Rehabilitation... Read More

    May 31, 2023

  • Vanderbilt part of coalition awarded $1M engine development award to advance sustainable manufacturing and supply chain innovation

    Vanderbilt part of coalition awarded $1M engine development award to advance sustainable manufacturing and supply chain innovation

    Vanderbilt University, in partnership with other institutions across Tennessee and Kentucky, has been awarded $1 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program. The team’s proposal, “Advancing carbon-centric circular economy technologies for advanced manufacturing solutions (KY, TN),” is led by a coalition named Generate Advanced Manufacturing Excellence for Change... Read More

    May 30, 2023

  • Discovery Vanderbilt invests in two engineering faculty-initiated startups: HeroWear and Virtuoso

    Discovery Vanderbilt invests in two engineering faculty-initiated startups: HeroWear and Virtuoso

    A university leadership committee has approved Discovery Vanderbilt investments into three faculty-initiated startups—HeroWear, IDBiologics and Virtuoso Surgical Inc.—as part of its mission from the offices of the chancellor and provost to boost innovation across the university. “These three initial investments will fuel discovery and accelerate the translation of our research into real-world benefits,” Chancellor Daniel... Read More

    May 29, 2023

  • Discovery Vanderbilt invests in two engineering faculty-initiated startups: HeroWear and Virtuoso

    Discovery Vanderbilt invests in two engineering faculty-initiated startups: HeroWear and Virtuoso

    A university leadership committee has approved Discovery Vanderbilt investments into three faculty-initiated startups—HeroWear, IDBiologics and Virtuoso Surgical Inc.—as part of its mission from the offices of the chancellor and provost to boost innovation across the university. “These three initial investments will fuel discovery and accelerate the translation of our research into real-world benefits,” Chancellor Daniel... Read More

    May 29, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Steed chosen to direct Family Nurse Practitioner program

    Julia Steed will become academic director of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner Program. She replaces Courtney Pitts who led the top-ranked specialty for the past seven years. Read More

    May 25, 2023

  • RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Nuclear fusion and the future of clean energy

    RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Nuclear fusion and the future of clean energy

    History was made in December when scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain. And a Washington-based start-up backed by hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital announced a few months later that it expects to have a fusion power plant built... Read More

    May 25, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Kennedy named Association of Women’s Health and Obstetrics Neonatal Nurses fellow

    School of Nursing Professor and Associate Dean for Academic and Curriculum Affairs Betsy Kennedy, BSN’89, MSN’93, PhD, ANEF, has been named as an Association of Women’s Health and Obstetrics Neonatal Nurses fellow. Read More

    May 24, 2023

  • Little Sphere, Big Power: Students work to build miniature fusion reactor

    Little Sphere, Big Power: Students work to build miniature fusion reactor

    By Amy Wolf It all started late one night in a first-year residence hall. A group of students were brainstorming ideas for an innovative project to collaborate on, and amid all the ambitious suggestions getting tossed around, one engineering major’s idea stood out: What if they built a miniature nuclear fusion reactor? In typical Vanderbilt... Read More

    May 19, 2023

  • Little Sphere, Big Power: Students work to build miniature fusion reactor

    Little Sphere, Big Power: Students work to build miniature fusion reactor

    By Amy Wolf It all started late one night in a first-year residence hall. A group of students were brainstorming ideas for an innovative project to collaborate on, and amid all the ambitious suggestions getting tossed around, one engineering major’s idea stood out: What if they built a miniature nuclear fusion reactor? In typical Vanderbilt... Read More

    May 19, 2023

  • Vanderbilt joins NSF-funded coalition to shape the future of mobility in Tennessee

    Vanderbilt joins NSF-funded coalition to shape the future of mobility in Tennessee

    Vanderbilt University will serve as a core partner in a statewide coalition to help shape the future of mobility and usher in a new era of economic prosperity in Tennessee. The effort is being funded by the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines program. The $1 million Advancing Technology-Enabled Mobility Solutions (ATEMS-TN) Regional Innovation Engines... Read More

    May 18, 2023

  • Nanotechnology repaves the path for cancer-fighting T cells

    Nanotechnology repaves the path for cancer-fighting T cells

    Vanderbilt researchers are bolstering the fight against cancer with technology that enhances the effectiveness of T cells that attack tumors. The cutting-edge research was recently published in the high-impact journal Science Immunology. Cancers co-opt both the immune and cardiovascular systems to fuel their own growth, researchers say. They do this in part by forming new... Read More

    May 8, 2023

  • Engineering student awarded extended DOE residency at Savannah River National Laboratory to continue doctoral research

    Engineering student awarded extended DOE residency at Savannah River National Laboratory to continue doctoral research

    Nicole Moehring, a fifth-year graduate student in interdisciplinary materials science, has been selected for an extended residency to continue her doctoral research at the Savannah River National Laboratory. She is one of just 87 awardees selected by the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research program this year. Nicole Moehring (Anne Rayner) At... Read More

    May 1, 2023

  • DOE renews partnership with Vanderbilt collaborator Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

    DOE renews partnership with Vanderbilt collaborator Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

    The Department of Energy has renewed its partnership with the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. The IACMI is a community of industry, universities, national laboratories and government agencies working together to accelerate the development and adoption of innovative manufacturing technologies. The funding connected with the renewed partnership will be used over five years to... Read More

    Apr 24, 2023

  • DOE renews partnership with Vanderbilt collaborator Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

    DOE renews partnership with Vanderbilt collaborator Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

    The Department of Energy has renewed its partnership with the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. The IACMI is a community of industry, universities, national laboratories and government agencies working together to accelerate the development and adoption of innovative manufacturing technologies. The funding connected with the renewed partnership will be used over five years to... Read More

    Apr 24, 2023

  • Caldwell collaboration wins prestigious Office of Naval Research MURI grant

    Caldwell collaboration wins prestigious Office of Naval Research MURI grant

    Joshua Caldwell (Vanderbilt University) Josh Caldwell, director of the Interdisciplinary Material Sciences program and professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. The five-year grant, which provides up to $1.5 million in funding annually, will be shared among Vanderbilt University, the University of Iowa,... Read More

    Apr 20, 2023

  • Caldwell collaboration wins prestigious Office of Naval Research MURI grant

    Caldwell collaboration wins prestigious Office of Naval Research MURI grant

    Joshua Caldwell (Vanderbilt University) Josh Caldwell, director of the Interdisciplinary Material Sciences program and professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. The five-year grant, which provides up to $1.5 million in funding annually, will be shared among Vanderbilt University, the University of Iowa,... Read More

    Apr 20, 2023

  • COVID on Twitter: town vs. country

    COVID on Twitter: town vs. country

    by Paul Govern Reported in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, a statistical analysis of sentiments expressed online by U.S. Twitter users captures the rural-urban divide regarding COVID-19. Google software engineer Yongtai Liu, PhD’22 in computer science; Bradley Malin, professor of biomedical informatics and computer science, and colleagues created a natural language processing system backed by artificial intelligence to... Read More

    Apr 11, 2023

  • Vanderbilt’s Shihong Lin wins Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize

    Vanderbilt’s Shihong Lin wins Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize

    Shihong Lin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded a Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Lin was honored alongside three other researchers. Shihong Lin (Vanderbilt University) The Huber Prize, named after former ASCE president Walter L. Huber, is given to researchers based on... Read More

    Apr 7, 2023

  • Abkowitz leads campus research project on pedestrian safety; volunteers with smart watches needed

    Abkowitz leads campus research project on pedestrian safety; volunteers with smart watches needed

    In partnership with design firm Gresham Smith, a team of Vanderbilt researchers from the university and medical center are deploying groundbreaking technology to increase pedestrian safety and comfort on campus. Mark Abkowitz, distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering, is leading the project. “ This is being accomplished using smart watches that record an individual’s heart... Read More

    Apr 3, 2023

  • International collaboration yields breakthrough that could revolutionize computing technologies

    International collaboration yields breakthrough that could revolutionize computing technologies

    Researchers from Vanderbilt University and University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made a significant advancement in understanding the correlation of the vibrational patterns of atoms at the level of chemical bonds in conducting materials silicon and graphene. Vibrational spectroscopy of substitutional Si impurities in graphene with different bonding configurations. (Image by UCAS) Atomic... Read More

    Mar 28, 2023