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A number of ViSE faculty and student members of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) participated in the 2012 SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium in San Diego, Feb 4-9. Among the 908 papers and posters presented at the conference, 24 were presented by ViSE members. Among the 1144 attendees,… Read More

When it comes to information technology (IT), Nashville has made great strides, but needs much more. Doug Schmidt Our shared concern about growing our IT talent pool is undeniably on-target. Software development and broader engineering skills and sheer innovative capacity are at a premium globally, as well as nationwide. It’s… Read More

Vanderbilt professor Sokrates T. Pantelides has been selected as a 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the MRS spring meeting in San Francisco in April. Pantelides is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, the William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor… Read More

Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials for Adsorption Applications February 20th, 2012, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Krista Walton Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are inorganic-organic hybrids that represent a new direction in porous materials research. The rich field of coordination chemistry… Read More

Vanderbilt University Engineering Dean Kenneth F. Galloway attended a White House event Feb. 8 to celebrate the efforts of engineering deans for their commitment to retain and graduate more students in the field of engineering. Galloway was among about 40 engineering deans representing a broad spectrum of U.S. engineering… Read More

Insight into the Kinetics of Oligomer Formation During Amyloidosis February 6th, 2012, SC 5326 Georges Belfort Howard P Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA Although the critical causative proteins for more than 20 amyloid diseases have… Read More

  Peter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Principal Scientist of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for the Engineering Directorate and to the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. The… Read More

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a 2012 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She will be inducted at the Fellow Induction and Awards Ceremony at AIMBE’s 21st annual event Feb. 20 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. Read More

Hall Lecture by Rebecca Bergman, vice president, New Therapies & Diagnostics for Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, Medtronic, Inc. Third lecture in the School’s 125th anniversary year. // //… Read More

Amrutur Anilkumar, professor of the practice of mechanical engineering, and Sankaran Mahadevan, the John R. Murray Sr. Professor of Engineering, have been elected associate fellows in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). L-R: Amrutur Anilkumar, Alan Lowrey, Lockheed Martin, and Region II Director of AIAA; and… Read More