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  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Irfan Ibrahim The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded an Integrated University Program fellowship grant of $161,000 to environmental engineering graduate research assistant Irfan Ibrahim to further his work on nuclear reactor safety. The office’s awards provide 50 scholarships and 31 fellowships for nuclear scientists… Read More

    May. 5, 2021

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    Faculty, students to honor late professor Matthew Walker III in virtual memorial May 8

    Matthew Walker III (Vanderbilt University) Faculty, students, administrators and friends of the School of Engineering and School of Medicine will hold a memorial to honor professor and mentor Matthew Walker III. Walker was a beloved professor and mentor who developed and taught Vanderbilt University’s biomedical engineering design curriculum… Read More

    May. 4, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Research Snapshot: Faculty examine user experience of electronic health records for physicians

    The Idea Health care providers use electronic health records as a tool for quickly sharing relevant patient medical information. Unfortunately, medical providers’ information needs are often misunderstood by the people who design information tools, including EHRs. A team of Vanderbilt-led researchers sought to better understand the goals, constraints and frustrations… Read More

    May. 3, 2021

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    Engineering alums recall Rugby Football Club; 50 years of competition and camaraderie

    Angela Snell By Graham Hays It started as a Yorkshireman’s attempt to bring something of home to Nashville. More than 50 years later, the Vanderbilt University Rugby Football Club has roots of its own. For the generations of alumni who took Dr. Geoffrey Berry’s idea and… Read More

    Apr. 30, 2021

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    NISE graduate trainee program now accepting applications

    Applications are now open for the Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering (NISE) graduate trainee program. The deadline to apply is June 15. Sponsored by an NSF Research Traineeship grant, the NISE program takes a novel approach to the training of engineers and scientists engaged in advancing the future of work… Read More

    Apr. 29, 2021

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    Schwager is one of 100 Ph.D. students in U.S., Canada named P.E.O. Scholar

    Samantha Schwager, a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering, is one of 100 doctoral students within the United States and Canada selected to receive a Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was nominated by P.E.O. Chapter P of Nashville. Samantha Schwager Schwager is a fourth-year graduate student… Read More

    Apr. 28, 2021

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    BME Professor Matthew Walker III was biomedical design leader

    Matthew Walker III, professor of the practice of biomedical engineering and associate professor of radiology and radiological sciences, died April 24, 2021, at his home. Mathew Walker III Walker, 56, designed an innovative biomedical engineering design curriculum that leveraged connections between the Vanderbilt School of Engineering, the medical school and… Read More

    Apr. 27, 2021

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    Vanderbilt names newest residential college in honor of Marieke and Jeff Rothschild

    Marieke and Jeff Rothschild Vanderbilt University’s newest residential college will be named Rothschild College in recognition of the transformational $20 million gift that Marieke and Jeff Rothschild, BA’77, MS’79, made in 2016 to accelerate the development of the residential college system. The Rothschilds’ generous contribution has helped advance a… Read More

    Apr. 26, 2021

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    Day of Wond’ry 2021 virtual event is May 12

    Day of Wond’ry, an online innovation extravaganza, will be held on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, from 4 to 6 p.m. CT. See student presentations and creations, learn about Wond’ry programs and services, and explore the virtual fair space using Gather.town, a connection platform combining video conferencing with a walkable 2D world. Walk… Read More

    Apr. 22, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    How to be a hydroponic farmer: Expert advice from agricultural entrepreneur Hassan Sharaff, BE’07

    One tip:  Think like an engineer “Everything I’ve learned, I’ve learned the hard way,” laughs Hassan Sharaff, BE’07, gesturing to, well, everything: the polyethylene greenhouse walls with a soaring aluminum frame, torqued by last year’s derecho winds, and tray after tray of arugula, basil, kale and lettuce shoots, drinking… Read More

    Apr. 21, 2021