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Michael Goldfarb, named by Popular Mechanics as one of the “10 Innovators Who Changed the World in 2013,” will deliver the March 25 Chancellor’s Lecture at Vanderbilt University. Goldfarb, holder of the H. Fort Flowers Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt, is renowned for his work… Read More

The IPEMS robot is fully dressed in a standard individual protection ensemble protective gear. For the first time, the military can conduct high-quality and reproducible tests of protective equipment without using a human subject. Photo courtesy of MRIGlobal. The completion of a human-like robot designed to provide data on the… Read More

Four biomedical engineering professors have been elected into AIMBE's College of Fellows. L-R, Michael Miga, Bruce Damon, Thomas Yankeelov and Mark Does were honored recently at a campus reception. They will be inducted into the College of Fellows March 24 at AIMBE's Annual Meeting. Four biomedical engineering professors in Vanderbilt’s… Read More

Geeks and Nerds (GaN) Corporation started by Jonn Kim (Ph.D.’99) has been chosen as one of 100 award winners representing the best in American small business. GaN Corporation, whose headquarters is in Huntsville, Ala., will receive a 2014 Blue Ribbon Small Business of the Year Award from the… Read More

American climate scientist and National Medal of Science recipient Warren M. Washington is a guest speaker in the 2013-2014 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University. The lecture – The Development of Computer Earth System Models: Climate Change in the 20th and 21st Century –… Read More

  Microphotograph of a chick embryo clearly shows the U-shaped tube from which the heart develops. At this stage of heart is the size of a comma on a printed page. (M.K. Sewell-Loftin / Vanderbilt) To develop correctly, baby hearts need rhythm…even before they have blood to pump. “We… Read More

John Gore, director of the Vanderbilt University Institute for Imaging Science, was named an honorary professor of Zhejiang University, China, during his recent visit to Zhejiang University School of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science. John Gore Gore, who delivered a lecture titled “The Emerging Role… Read More

Barry D. Lichter, 82, professor of mechanical engineering and professor of materials science and engineering emeritus, died Feb. 1 in Nashville. Barry D. Lichter Lichter, a native of Chelsea, Mass., received his bachelor’s degree in 1953 and his doctorate in 1958, both in metallurgy from MIT. Following research positions at… Read More

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jason Valentine has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. Valentine The four-year, $400,000 grant – All-Dielectric Optical Metasurfaces For Controlling Wave Fronts – will allow Valentine to continue research that will lead to a new class of ultra-compact optical elements that… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering students who worked on Team Music City’s submission hear the news that Harmony House will compete in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2015. Team Music City, an interdisciplinary group from Vanderbilt University, Middle Tennessee State University and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville, has… Read More