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  • Vanderbilt University

    Knowledge on demand shapes technology’s future in education –Schmidt Lecture Nov. 15

    As education technologies continue to converge, the 2018 forecast is for an exponential pace of technological change. David Wilson Students today effortlessly connect to the tools, methodologies and strong communities that can and will nurture their innate curiosity, said David E. Wilson, a popular speaker who leads a global team… Read More

    Nov. 8, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    NIH-funded collaboration to develop steerable robotic needles for lung biopsies

    What started as graduate school research with steerable needles in blocks of gelatin could help pulmonologists more accurately reach sites in the peripheral lung to biopsy them. A collaboration between that doctoral student – now Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert Webster; Dr. Fabien Maldonado a pulmonologist at Vanderbilt University… Read More

    Nov. 8, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    BME PhD shifts to sepsis cure after dramatic end to pro cycling career

    Every hour Sinead Miller spends figuring out how to cure sepsis equates to some untold amount of time she’ll spend in a cool, dark, quiet room, her brain recovering from punishing migraines triggered by bright laboratories and computer screens. Miller, 27, was a pro cyclist at the top of her… Read More

    Nov. 3, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    ABS underwriting cost of employee’s PhD in risk and reliability

    One of the world’s largest marine classification societies is sponsoring a PhD student in risk and reliability engineering, an arrangement that could become more common as the number of jobs requiring graduate degrees outside of academia continues to increase. Eric VanDerHorn, a senior engineer at Houston-based ABS (the American Bureau… Read More

    Nov. 3, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    Journalists hear from chancellor, four Vanderbilt professors on big issues ahead

    Journalists from across the country traveled to campus last week to hear from Vanderbilt’s chancellor, experts and others about big issues likely to shape the Trump administration’s second year. The reporting institute, organized by journalism think tank and training group Poynter, spanned Thursday through Saturday and met in the First… Read More

    Oct. 30, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    1st Academic Pathways cohort includes future engineering professors

    The first cohort of Academic Pathways postdoctoral fellows. L-R: Monica Ridgeway, Lillian Brady, Rashanique Quarels, Diego Mesa, Joy Garnett, Kyndra Cleveland, Dean Stolworthy (Vanderbilt University) The first cohort of Academic Pathways postdoctoral fellows. L-R: Monica Ridgeway, Lillian Brady, Rashanique Quarels, Diego Mesa, Joy Garnett, Kyndra Cleveland, Dean Stolworthy (Vanderbilt University)… Read More

    Oct. 30, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    Grand opening of nanoscale research facilities wows crowd

    Excited visitors got a firsthand look Tuesday at the new, state-of-the-art facilities for the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, with the showpiece being a 10,000-square-foot, commercial-grade cleanroom. About 300 people attended the grand opening celebration. L-r: Dean of… Read More

    Oct. 27, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    Ph.D. student publishes illustrated children’s book to explain water quality issues in Bangladesh

    Chelsea Peters poses with students in Bangladesh who received free copies of her book. (Submitted photo/Chelsea Peters) Farzana is a fictional little girl from the mind of environmental engineering Ph.D. student Chelsea Peters, but there are thousands of real children like her in Bangladesh, walking for miles to find clean… Read More

    Oct. 26, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    Nashville offers new civil engineering professor ideal place to research traffic issues

    Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Daniel Work can’t think of a better place to research traffic issues than Nashville. He’s bringing his expertise on applying cyber-physical systems—the combination of physical systems with technological advances—to transportation to a city that adds… Read More

    Oct. 26, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    NSF equipment grant expands nanoscale research capabilities

    The ALD Reactor will be housed in the VINSE core facilities. Grand opening events and tours start at 3:30 p.m. today. (Vanderbilt/Joe Howell) An advanced tool to be housed at Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering core facilities will allow researchers to deposit uniform, ultrathin films for microelectronics, energy… Read More

    Oct. 24, 2017