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Rising biomedical engineering senior Madison Albert and rising computer science junior Haoli Yin have been named 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholars. The Goldwater Scholarship Program, honoring U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in the fields of the… Read More

Vanderbilt alum Ashwin Kumar, MS’22, has been selected from a pool of more than 7,000 applicants for the 2023 cohort of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. Knight-Hennessy is a multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate scholarship program, where scholars receive up to three years of financial support to pursue graduate… Read More

Philippe Fauchet, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, has announced outstanding 2023 engineering graduates, school and department award recipients at the school’s May 11 Commencement Reception. “It is among my favorite duties as dean to acknowledge our students’ accomplishments that we recognize by awards and honors they have earned at… Read More

Dean Philippe Fauchet announced May 9 the promotions of engineering faculty members at the final faculty meeting of the 2022-2023 academic year and presented four school awards at a reception following the meeting. Dan Work has been promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are bolstering the fight against cancer with technology that enhances the effectiveness of T cells that attack tumors. The cutting-edge research was recently published in the high-impact journal Science Immunology. Fluorescent microscopy of a tumor section (cell nuclei in blue) that contains abnormal blood vessels (red) and… Read More

Former chair of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust and Vanderbilt Law School alumnus Mark F. Dalton, JD’75, has established a faculty director position to bolster innovative hands-on learning in aerospace design. The inaugural Mark Dalton Faculty Director of Experiential Learning in Aerospace Engineering is Amrutur “A.V.”… Read More

Eleven Vanderbilt engineering graduate students are 2023 recipients of five-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Six engineering undergraduate students who will continue their graduate study elsewhere also have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. “With a total of 17 Vanderbilt engineering students recognized with this prestigious fellowship this year, our… Read More

Nicole Moehring, a fifth-year graduate student in interdisciplinary materials science, has been selected for an extended residency to continue her doctoral research at the Savannah River National Laboratory. She is one of just 87 awardees selected by the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research program… Read More

Two multidisciplinary teams from a new joint initiative between Vanderbilt’s Department of Computer Science and Peabody College have advanced to the “discovery round” of the Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Devin Jean, a third-year CS Ph.D. student, presents his… Read More

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and professor of astronomy, computer science and management, and director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at the School of Engineering. Stassun and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cornelius Vanderbilt… Read More