Alumni

  • Vanderbilt University

    ‘Deep dive’ in popular fields is aim of next generation of MOOCs

    YouTube: Learn about Mobile Cloud Computing with Android Vanderbilt teams up with University of Maryland to offer trans-institutional sequence of massive open online courses Enabling students taking massive open online courses to dive deeper into learning and develop mastery in a particular subject are the aims… Read More

    Jan. 21, 2014

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    The right chemistry: Graduate school and NFL cheerleading squad

    Video courtesy of Titans All Access   Jessica Haley thinks stereotypes are seldom accurate. This is Haley’s third season as a National Football League cheerleader for the Tennessee Titans, and she’s a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt. “If you… Read More

    Jan. 20, 2014

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    Young alumna’s passions fuel sustainable solutions globally

    Leslie describes how she’s putting her civil engineering degree to work in this YouTube video. You can explore and engineer clean energy, too Vanderbilt alumna Leslie Labruto’s early career trajectory illustrates just how many ways a young civil environmental engineer can accommodate both her heart’s leaning and her tangible… Read More

    Jan. 18, 2014

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    Nissan is fan of grads’ fantasy football stock market game

    Stadium Stock Exchange, created by mechanical engineering graduate McArthur Gill (left) and economics major Will Schreiber in their final semester at Vanderbilt, caught Nissan's attention at a ‘pitch day’ event at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center last January. Nissan offered $50,000, and has committed to a second season. SSE is a… Read More

    Jan. 17, 2014

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    Vanderbilt rocket camjet to capture landing hazards during NASA contest

    Vanderbilt NASA Student Launch Team: (Front, L-R ) William Emfinger, Andrew Voss, Brandon Dimmig, Shivaprem Bernath, Chris Twedell, Fred Folz, Dexter Watkins, Mitchell Masia, (Back, L-R) Patrick Foran, Jordan Salik and Kevin Bush. Organizers of the NASA Student Launch Program (SLP) have announced a final field of 27 collegiate… Read More

    Jan. 16, 2014

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    Large university, industry team analyzes single electron that can zap technology

    Vanderbilt School of Engineering group: (L-R) Daniel M .Fleetwood, Andrew L. Sternberg, Robert A. Reed, Cher Xuan Zhang, Michael P. King, Stephanie L. Weeden-Wright, Robert A. Weller, Elizabeth C. Auden, Ronald D. Schrimpf and Brian D. Sierawski. Paper first-authored by engineering graduate student wins IEEE Outstanding Conference Paper Award As… Read More

    Jan. 15, 2014

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    Two engineering alumni named to ‘Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list

    Two Vanderbilt School of Engineering graduates — the co-founder of an alternative energy company and the co-inventor of a portable exoskeleton that helps paraplegics to walk — are among five Vanderbilt alumni who have been named to Forbes magazine’s  30 Under 30. The… Read More

    Jan. 10, 2014

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    Student wins grand prize in 2013 international travel video contest

    Mechanical engineering senior Khairul Kamarulzaman's video - Postcard - won InternationalStudent.com’s grand prize and a viewer’s choice award in the website’s 2013 Travel Video Contest. Khairul Kamarulzaman has taken advantage semester and holiday breaks at Vanderbilt to travel west and east, north and south across United States. A… Read More

    Dec. 20, 2013

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    Biodegradable scaffold may spur wound healing

    From left, Scott Guelcher, Jeffrey Davidson, Christopher Nelson and Craig Duvall showed that an enzyme-blocking molecule released by a biodegradable scaffold can enhance wound healing in a mouse model. (photo by Susan Urmy) Biomedical and chemical engineers at Vanderbilt University, working with a pathologist,… Read More

    Dec. 19, 2013

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    Galloway joins editorial board of IEEE biomedical engineering journal

    Robert L. Galloway Jr. has accepted a position on the editorial board of Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, a journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Robert Galloway Galloway, whose… Read More

    Dec. 10, 2013