Alumni

The Vanderbilt University students behind Zeno Power Systems, a clean energy company that could serve schools and hospitals in remote locations, will discuss their path to entrepreneurship Wednesday at The University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington, D.C. Hosted by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and the Association… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching recipient Gerald Roth and Faculty Senate chair Vicki Greene (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Two engineering professors received prestigious university awards at the 2019 Spring Faculty Assembly. The awards recognize teaching, research and service to students and the university. Chancellor… Read More

Commodores around the globe made gifts in support of hundreds of areas of the university on April 4 for Vanderbilt’s annual Giving Day. (photo by Peyton Hoge) Over 750 donors contributed more than $500,000 to the School of Engineering on April 4 during Vanderbilt Giving Day, the university’s  fourth annual… Read More

Ethan Lippmann, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. The five-year, $401,650 grant—Deconstructing Neurovascular Mechanobiology—begins July 1, 2019. Ethan Lippmann, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. Lippmann studies changes in brain vascular physiology due to aging or disease. Read More

Vanderbilt’s fourth annual Giving Day is scheduled for April 4 and offers the entire Vanderbilt community a chance to join together to “give for the gold” and make the university stronger. Download the Mr. C augmented reality app and enter the social media contest for a… Read More

The Nashville Technology Council named Michelle Miller, MS ’03, 2019 CTO of the Year. Miller is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Centauri Health Solutions, a health care technology analytics and services company. Nashville serves as the primary data center for all Centauri lines of business and the product… Read More

The Women of VISE, a group of graduate students associated with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering, will hold a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, to develop Wikipedia pages for women in science. The event will be held in Jacobs Believed in Me… Read More

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente Deans Fauchet, Marnett and Geer to participate The Vanderbilt community is invited to a March 28 town hall with several university senior leaders to learn about two studies underway for future capital improvements: one… Read More

Audrey Ellerbee Bowden has been named a Fellow of SPIE, international society for optics and photonics, “for achievements in optical coherence tomography.” Audrey Bowden Bowden, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has developed several new system designs that advance optical coherence tomography, an imaging technique that provides high-resolution imaging of subsurface… Read More

For any number of diseases involving the skin, research into causes and cures requires isolating and quantifying in a reliable way the proportion of affected skin, one research subject after another, the more the better. This is achieved with medical photography, computer monitors, and mouse-dragging by a research dermatologist to… Read More