Brenda Ellis

Vanderbilt engineering students will showcase their ingenuity through some challenging–but fun–competitions and events during National Engineers Week February 17-22, 2025. All events will take place in Featheringill Hall’s Adams Atrium. The Engineering Council pulls the week together each year with help from student organizations. This year, sponsoring organizations include Engineers… Read More

The School of Engineering’s Assistant Dean for Design joins a new cohort of 10 Immersion Faculty Fellows who are supported by Undergraduate Education in the Office of the Provost. The fellows represent each of the university’s 10 schools and colleges and will elevate Immersion Vanderbilt, now in its third year… Read More

Two-year-old Ronnie waves and drives a red toy car slowly forward with help from his mom. JoJo gets his car the day before his second birthday, while eight-year-old Olive shows off her new wheels to an adoring crowd of engineering and occupational therapy students. Ronnie and his mother test drive… Read More

Sam Altman, the visionary CEO of OpenAI and one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence, is set to deliver the opening keynote at the 2025 Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. His highly anticipated address will take place on the morning of April 10, 2025, at Vanderbilt… Read More

As Vanderbilt University continues to partner with the Palm Beach region to explore the potential for a campus in West Palm Beach, the university released artist renderings of its planned West Palm Beach Campus. The renderings offer a preview of its vision to create a vibrant graduate school that focuses… Read More

Three seminal articles published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine mark a landmark achievement in preclinical imaging science. These works, authored by an international consortium of 58 scientists, including Vanderbilt University’s Kurt Schilling, Bennett Landman, Adam Anderson, and Kevin Harkins, offer comprehensive guidelines for using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) in… Read More

In the ongoing battle against triple negative breast cancer, Vanderbilt researchers have uncovered a promising non-invasive method to track how tumors respond to radiation and immunotherapy, which uses the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. While immunotherapy offers hope, many patients do not respond to current treatments. The primary… Read More

A Vanderbilt-led research team has made a significant breakthrough in developing advanced dialysis membranes using atomically thin materials like graphene. These innovative membranes, called nanoporous atomically thin membranes (NATMs), leverage a protein-enabled sealing mechanism to address a key challenge in dialysis technology, which is maintaining high efficiency in filtering… Read More

Vanderbilt University has entered an agreement with Gresham Smith to explore the future of innovation and design and to collaborate on research and development initiatives. The strategic initiative builds off previous collaborations and focuses on broader campus opportunities. Mark Abkowitz Earlier this month, the collaboration officially kicked off with… Read More

How does the Nashville airport manage to be one of the busiest hubs for travel while undertaking one of the biggest expansions in the country? How does safe drinking water make it from the clouds to your sink? And how do music concerts sound so reliably good? A new spring… Read More