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Imaging scientist and biomedical engineer John Gore (Dana Johnson / Vanderbilt)

Professor helps validate maps of the brain’s resting state

Kick back and shut your eyes. Now stop thinking. You have just put your brain into what neuroscientists call its resting state. What the brain is doing when an individual is not focused on the outside world has become the focus of considerable research in recent years. One of the potential benefits of these studies…

Posted June 19, 2013 in Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, News, Research, , , , ,

Peter Cummings

Engineering’s Cummings receives Prausnitz Award

Peter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering and Principal Scientist, Center for Nanophase Materials, Oak Ridge National Lab, has been awarded the 2013 John M. Prausnitz Award by the Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design. The award, which was presented May 30 in Argentina at an Iryapu…

Posted June 17, 2013 in Alumni, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, News, Research, , , ,

Alex Walsh

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 on the Vanderbilt Ph.D. student….

Posted June 14, 2013 in Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, News, Research, , , ,

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Vanderbilt takes top prize in NASA student rocket launch challenge

National championship is six years in the making Vanderbilt engineering students won their first national rocket competition after April launch results were combined with technical design reviews and evaluations of written reports and outreach projects, including a website documenting the experience. NASA today announced that the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club captured first prize in the 2013…

Posted May 20, 2013 in Alumni, Mechanical Engineering, News, Research, , , , ,

Sharon Weiss standing beside her exhibit at the Capitol Hill exhibition. (Vanderbilt Federal Relations)

Weiss participates in NSF advocacy day

Following an early morning flight to Washington, D.C., on May 7, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics Sharon Weiss braved the rainy weather to head to Capitol Hill and meet with staff members in the offices of Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Bob Corker, Rep. Jim Cooper and Rep. Chuck Fleischmann as well as the…

Posted May 13, 2013 in Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, Research, , , ,

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Graduate’s path to traumatic brain injury research was littered with roadside bombs

U.S. Army Capt. David M. Barry has found himself at the forefront of cutting-edge research for improving methods for assessing and treating traumatic brain injury [TBI], delivering research findings that contain both professional and personal components at symposiums and forums. The distinguished engineering graduate (summa cum laude, Engineering Science)  from Vanderbilt’s Army ROTC program in…

Posted May 3, 2013 in Alumni, General Engineering, News, Research, , , , ,

The team presents their project during Design Day.

Seniors’ smart car seat could prevent child deaths

Vanderbilt engineering students are working to prevent children from being left alone in hot cars by creating a ‘smart’ car seat. As part of a senior design project, six students invented the “Kidsense Car Seat.” It is powered by a car’s cigarette lighter, and is equipped with lights and alarms to alert parents when the…

Posted May 2, 2013 in Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, News, Research, , ,

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Second doctoral student secures NDSEG fellowship

Courtney Mitchell, a graduate student in chemical engineering, is the second Vanderbilt engineering student in in three weeks to be awarded a 2013 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Awarded annually to only about 200 students who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of…

Posted May 1, 2013 in Alumni, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, News, Research, , ,

Ted Bapty

Vanderbilt wins $9.3M DARPA contract to evolve tools for military vehicle design

Vanderbilt University engineers in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems have been awarded a $9.3 million contract over two years to continue their work to mature META tools that are part of a flagship Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program. AVM is a portfolio of programs focused on dramatically reducing the…

Posted April 30, 2013 in Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, Research, , , , , , ,

Software engineer Jay Cowan with the new computer, called a data warehouse appliance, that is helping Vanderbilt scientists more quickly search, filter, analyze and annotate the de-identified medical records of approximately 2 million patients. (photo by Joe Howell)

New computer speeds clinical data collection

Tucked in a data center in the basement of Vanderbilt University Hospital, a new computer the size of a large armoire, called a data warehouse appliance, is delivering a new order of speed to Vanderbilt clinical scientists as they search, filter, analyze and annotate the de-identified medical records of approximately 2 million patients. That’s how…

Posted April 26, 2013 in Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, Research, , ,

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