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  • Vanderbilt University

    ME and VADL alumnus makes Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list with solar cell startup

    Kevin Bush, BE’14, has been named to the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, which highlights “600 revolutionaries in 20 industries changing the course—and the face—of business and society.” Bush was selected in the energy sector. In all, five Vanderbilt University alumni were named by Forbes this year; three are… Read More

    Jan. 30, 2020

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    Oguz uses ACCRE supercomputer daily for medical image analysis

    For seventeen years, Vanderbilt students and researchers have analyzed data with a method much faster than any normal laptop: a supercomputer steps away from the Commons Center. The Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE), which originated in 2003, is housed in the Hill Center, between the Commons… Read More

    Jan. 30, 2020

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    GPS co-creator is E-Week speaker at engineering school

    The chief engineer for design and development of the Global Positioning System and its atomic clocks will visit the School of Engineering as part of 2020 National Engineers Week events, Feb. 17-21, at Vanderbilt University. Hugo Fruehauf Hugo Fruehauf, one of four engineers who created the Global Positioning System, will… Read More

    Jan. 28, 2020

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    Film Detective helps kids with autism interpret actors’ actions

      Elementary school teachers seemed particularly excited about Film Detective, a game to help adolescents on the autism spectrum learn to decode social scenarios, at the 7th annual ED Games Expo Jan. 9 in Washington, D.C. “They liked how engaging the game is, using television and movie clips as… Read More

    Jan. 27, 2020

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    A path toward shapeshifting new materials—Engineering’s Hall Lecture Feb. 12

    Next-generation materials will be defined by their ability to adapt, change their properties, change their shape—shapeshifters. “We want to be able to make material that can flow when it wants to flow, that can be rigid when it needs to be rigid, that can appear one way or appear another… Read More

    Jan. 24, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Five graduate students named Eisenhower Fellows

    Vanderbilt’s five 2020 Eisenhower Fellows assemble with Federal Highway Administration officials after the awards ceremony. From left, Ewa Flom FHWA program manager, Paul Johnson, Charles Doktycz, Will Barbour, Derek Gloudemans, Yanbing Wang and two other FHWA representatives. Five engineering Ph.D. students have received prestigious Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships and… Read More

    Jan. 21, 2020

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    Molecular Physics honors Peter Cummings as a ‘scientific force’ over four decades

    While others may have opened somewhat traditional gifts during the 2019 holiday season, Peter Cummings received an extraordinary one:  A singular issue of Molecular Physics, Volume 117, numbers 23-24, honoring him on his 65th birthday and recognizing him as “a constantly innovating scientific force” in molecular theory and molecular simulation… Read More

    Jan. 17, 2020

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    Engineers advance efforts to speed blood test results

    Vanderbilt engineers are working on a process that ultimately may allow patients to get blood test results fast. The process involves automating the duplication process of a person’s DNA to bring DNA levels up to the point where they can be detected. Mindy Leelawong (top) holds a vial of dye… Read More

    Jan. 13, 2020

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    Kidambi receives NSF Early Career Award to support atomically thin membrane research

    Piran Kidambi has received a 2020 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. The five-year, $500,000 grant—Deconstructing Proton Transport through Atomically Thin Membranes—begins July 1, 2020. Piran Kidambi Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, will use the award to support his research on membrane technology. His work… Read More

    Jan. 10, 2020

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    TEDx Talk highlights Frist Center for Autism and Innovation work

    This past November, Frist Center for Autism and Innovation communications coordinator Claire Barnett spoke at TEDxVanderbilt about autistic employment. Her talk, titled “Why autistic unemployment is so high – and what we can do about it,” explores several reasons that autistic adults struggle to obtain meaningful work. Barnett… Read More

    Jan. 9, 2020