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    Kimberly Bryant named one of 26 most powerful female engineers in 2016

    Kimberly Bryant Kimberly Bryant, BE’89, founder of Black Girls Code, a nonprofit focused on teaching girls 6 to 17 programming skills, has been recognized by Business Insider as one of the 26 most powerful female engineers in 2016. The magazine listed Bryant at No. 17. Bryant was the… Read More

    Mar. 9, 2016

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    Recent grad at VW is top young engineer in Chattanooga

    Holger Fechner (left), manager, Exterior Development, Volkswagen, and Matthias Erb (right), executive vice president of Engineering and Planning at Volkswagen Group of America, congratulate Alexander Faupel at Chattanooga E-Week activities. (Contributed photo) Less than a year after graduation, a Vanderbilt mechanical engineering alumnus and Volkswagen employee was named 2016 Gen. Read More

    Mar. 7, 2016

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    Biomedical engineering researcher receives NSF Early Career award

    A Vanderbilt biomedical engineering researcher has received a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation. Skala Melissa Skala, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is a pioneering researcher in the development of optical imaging, optical spectroscopy and nanotechnology for cancer diagnosis and therapy. The $509,000,… Read More

    Mar. 4, 2016

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    Civil & environmental grad student takes top spot at Three Minute Thesis Competition

    Civil and environmental engineering graduate student Thushara Gunda delivers her Three Minute Thesis on helping Sri Lankan farmers with drought. (Daniel DuBois/Vanderbilt University) Topics ranged from giving nanoparticles the aquatic skills of an Olympic swimmer so they can deliver anti-cancer drugs more effectively…to developing an ultrasonic Trojan… Read More

    Mar. 2, 2016

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    40 Under 40 honoree: ‘Things that make me successful are what I learned between classes’

    Andrea Yanicky Andrea Yanicky arrived at InfoWorks in 2002 with the ink barely dry on her Vanderbilt University engineering science degree, ready to start her business consulting gig at the then 20-person firm. But by the time she arrived, her gig wasn’t open. Instead,… Read More

    Mar. 1, 2016

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    Glencliff High sweeps ASCE bridge competition in 7 out of last 8 years

    From left, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering's Janey Camp; Christian Mejia, third place; Ivan Estrada, second place; Si Thu Min, first place; Glencliff High engineering teacher Edward Dunning; ASCE Nashville chapter's Tony Snyder. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) There’s not a lot of drama reflected in little plaques adorning… Read More

    Mar. 1, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    School launches Emerging Scholars in Engineering Lecture series

    The Vanderbilt School of Engineering is launching a new lecture series Feb. 29 that will showcase young engineering talent. Fauchet The intent of the Emerging Scholars in Engineering Lecture series is to showcase young people from underrepresented groups who are nearing completion or who have completed a doctoral degree. “The… Read More

    Feb. 24, 2016

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    Adams earns Lazan Award for pioneering structural health monitoring technology

    Douglas Adams, Daniel F. Flowers Professor and Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is the recipient of the 2016 B. J. Lazan Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics. Adams will accept the award in June at SEM’s International Congress in Orlando, Florida. Adams… Read More

    Feb. 24, 2016

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    Zelik named NIH Career Development Award Winner; earns grant, mentorship

    Karl Zelik, assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation, right, discusses research with graduate students. (Vanderbilt University) Assistant Professor Karl Zelik is one of three National Institutes of Health K12 Career Development Award winners for 2016 who will be participating in the… Read More

    Feb. 23, 2016

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    Abkowitz earns Hochman Lifetime Achievement Award from TRB

    Professor Mark Abkowitz, center, collects his award. (Photo courtesy of Janey Camp) Mark Abkowitz, a Vanderbilt University professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies, recently won the Charles H. Hochman Lifetime Achievement Award from the Transportation Research Board… Read More

    Feb. 23, 2016