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  • Vanderbilt University

    Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology

    Watch video of the Donna S. and John R. Hall Engineering Lecture, delivered by synthetic biology pioneer James J. Collins. Collins is the recipient of a MacArthur grant and a renowned biomedical engineering professor at Boston University. One of the earliest biomedical engineering programs in the United States, Vanderbilt’s Department… Read More

    Nov. 7, 2013

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    VUCast Extra: Blackberries, electricity and high school students

    How do you get students excited about science? Try some blackberries, nanotechnology and solar cells mixed with Tennessee high school students at a Vanderbilt lab. Watch VUCast Extra now. Contact: Emily Pearce ·   Amy Wolf ·   (615) 322-2706 Patients, students and members of the public seeking more information on medical… Read More

    Nov. 7, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    VUCast: A wireless capsule and hallucinating without drugs

    See how a wireless capsule could help during minimally invasive surgeries Why magnesium and vitamin D are a match made in heaven And do you really see the S in the USA network logo? Watch this QuickVU roundup of research stories. Contact: Emily Pearce ·   Amy… Read More

    Nov. 7, 2013

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    Vanderbilt startup competes for $1M prize in Global Food and Health Innovation Challenge

    Nashville startup InvisionHeart is a finalist for the Global Food and Health Innovation Challenge and will compete next week for a $1 million prize. InvisionHeart was created by a group at Vanderbilt University, including biomedical engineering professor Franz Baudenbacher and cardiac anesthesiologist Susan Eagle. InvisionHeart was chosen from among 220… Read More

    Nov. 6, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Clean water champion receives lifetime achievement award from global environment federation

    Environmental engineering alumnus Sam Shelby Jr. (BE’73) has received a lifetime achievement award from the Water Environment Federation. Sam Shelby Jr. Shelby, principal of Environ Corporation’s Nashville, Tenn., office, was presented the Industrial Water Quality Lifetime Achievement Award in October during the WEF’s annual… Read More

    Nov. 1, 2013

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    Speaker creates game theory framework to tackle terrorism attacks

    A computer software system based on game theory was installed nine months ago at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach – the eighth busiest ports in the world – to protect the area’s harbors against terrorism attacks. The anti-terrorism system, called Port Resilience Operational/Tactical Enforcement to Combat Terrorism… Read More

    Oct. 31, 2013

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    National Robotics Initiative grant will provide surgical robots with a new level of machine intelligence

    Nabil Simaan testing a surgical robot that he designed. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt) Providing surgical robots with a new kind of machine intelligence that significantly extends their capabilities and makes them much easier and more intuitive for surgeons to operate is the goal of a major new grant… Read More

    Oct. 28, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Adams uses sound waves for bomb detection

    Douglas Adams (John Russell / Vanderbilt) A remote acoustic detection system designed to identify homemade bombs can determine the difference between those that contain low-yield and high-yield explosives. That capability – never before reported in a remote bomb detection system – was described in a paper by Vanderbilt… Read More

    Oct. 24, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    New device stores electricity on silicon chips

    Silicon chip with porous surface next to the special furnace where it was coated with graphene to create a supercapacitor electrode. (Joe Howell / Vanderbilt)   Solar cells that produce electricity 24/7, not just when the sun is shining. Mobile phones with built-in power cells that recharge in… Read More

    Oct. 23, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Goldfarb named to ‘Popular Mechanics’ top 10 innovators list

      Popular Mechanics has named Michael Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, one of its “Ten Innovators Who Changed The World” for 2013. Goldfarb, who develops robotic adaptive equipment for people with disabilities, and his former graduate student Ryan Farris were recognized for the Indego, an… Read More

    Oct. 22, 2013