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  • Vanderbilt University

    Surgery and engineering initiative becomes institute

      (Vanderbilt University) VISE is keeping its acronym but changing its name. The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering will become the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering. The promotion from a three-year trial program to an established institute is the consequence of a Vanderbilt… Read More

    Sep. 10, 2015

  • VUSE at No. 36 in U.S. News annual undergraduate rankings

    VUSE at No. 36 in U.S. News annual undergraduate rankings

    Vanderbilt University School of Engineering landed in a five-way tie for No. 36 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs rankings, which were released Wednesday. The university overall earned its highest-ever spot — No. 15, tied with Cornell University and Washington University. The other schools of engineering… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Grant for dual electron and ion beam equipment saves trip to ORNL

    FEI Helios NanoLab G3 CX Dual Beam FIB/SEM (Submitted photo) A team of Vanderbilt researchers won a $928,786 National Science Foundation grant to purchase a piece of equipment that, for now, researchers must travel to Oak Ridge National Laboratories to use. It’s called an FEI Helios NanoLab… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Chambers Lecture Oct. 7: How the Maker Movement is changing the world

    Mark Hatch says the Maker Movement is changing the world. He knows and he’ll tell you how. Mark Hatch Hatch is CEO and co-founder of TechShop, a fast-growing chain of co-working spaces where people come to build prototypes for the products they want to sell. What… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    IMS grad student takes home physical sciences award from conference

    John F. Mansfield, left, MSA President, congratulates Jake Benzing on his award. (Submitted photo) A Vanderbilt PhD student in interdisciplinary materials science took home a first-place poster award at August’s Microscopy & Microanalysis conference, held last month in Portland, Oregon. Jake Benzing, whose adviser is Associate Professor of… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Undergrads collect accolades, experience in VUSE summer research

    Austin Hardcastle's new malaria test, unveiled at the VUSE Summer Research Program poster event. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Austin Hardcastle stood pensively next to a giant poster explaining his research, the ultimate in “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” reports, holding the malaria test he designed. Soon, the… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2015

  • School of Engineering recruits 3 new faculty members

    School of Engineering recruits 3 new faculty members

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of three new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff. They are Hiba Baroud, Maithilee Kunda and Ethan Lippmann. Baroud After completing a Ph.D. at Oklahoma University’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hiba Baroud has joined the civil and environmental… Read More

    Sep. 4, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Sztipanovits builds on IoT, Industrial Internet for the next tech revolution

    Janos Sztipanovits, director of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. Americans are well accustomed to the sight of Fitbit-adorned wrists, their wearers marching in place so that their smartphones can reward them with a celebratory message about hitting a step goal. That’s the Internet… Read More

    Aug. 18, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Third DENSO grant expands Vanderbilt’s engine test facilities

      Britt Autry (BE’92), vice president, North American Production Promotion Center, DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee, presents a check to VUSE Associate Dean Cynthia Paschal. Back row, from left: Brian Crawford, DENSO senior specialist; Gary Walker, energetics lab manager; Dexter Watkins, mechanical engineering graduate teaching assistant; Chris… Read More

    Aug. 12, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Innovation Center to support campus ‘makers’; search underway for director

      A rendering of the Engineering and Science Building, home to the newly announced Innovation Center. (Vanderbilt University) A new Innovation Center is being developed on the Vanderbilt University campus to support a “maker” culture that will encourage entrepreneurship and creativity and bolster implementation of the university’s… Read More

    Aug. 6, 2015