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Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools has joined with the Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies and Peabody College to create a platform to provide detailed, reliable and recurring information about the commitment of major employers to the public school system. This is the latest installment in a… Read More

Vanderbilt University was honored with six awards from the Tennessee College Public Relations Association at its spring meeting June 12-13. Two School of Engineering publications received recognition in the category of Special Publications. Solutions was awarded a silver award and Designing… Read More

Last year, the White House launched its “SmartAmerica” challenge. The basic idea was to identify research projects that illustrate how the increasing integration of computers with physical systems – sometimes called the ‘internet of things’ – can improve US competitiveness by creating new jobs and business opportunities that in… Read More

Two Vanderbilt-related ventures – PinPtr and Spot – are among 10 teams selected for the 2014 business accelerator summer program offered by Nashville’s Jumpstart Foundry. More than 200 companies applied for the 10 spots, according to Jumpstart Foundry co-founder Marcus Whitney. The program began May 19 and companies pitch their… Read More

On Saturday morning, May 17, on the storied Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, the 10-foot, black-and-gold StarCRAFT rocket blasted into the still blue sky in a flawless flight that reached an altitude of 4,850 feet before popping its parachute and drifting serenely back down to earth. The students from Vanderbilt’s… Read More

Peter Pintauro, H. Eugene McBrayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Fellowship in AIChE represents the highest grade of membership in the 45,000-member organization, which is dedicated to promoting excellence in chemical engineering through advancing career… Read More

Chemical engineering graduate student Ethan Self has received a DAAD Rise Fellowship. He will travel in June to Darmstadt, Germany, to work for six months at Merck KGaA. Ethan Self Self, from Mattoon, Illinois, is a third-year doctoral student who works in the lab of Peter Pintauro, H. Eugene McBrayer… Read More

Todd Giorgio, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) as its Academic Council Chair for 2014-2016. Giorgio was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers and members of the Academic Council. Giorgio Giorgio has recently served as the… Read More

Close-up of structural supercapacitor. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources. This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy directly into… Read More

Justin David Langford, 23, a 2013 mechanical engineering graduate, died May 17 as the result of a May 14 traffic accident in Flagstaff, Arizona. Justin Langford Langford, of Zionsville, Indiana, was driving a flat-bed utility truck during performance calibration activities when the accident occurred. While at Vanderbilt Langford was involved… Read More