Biomedical Engineering

Think you’ve got an idea that could become the next Facebook or Google, but you’re not sure how to get it off the ground? Turning ideas into action is the aim of a new, seven-week Pre-Flight course, developed by the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and offered… Read More

An attempt to poison Zika-carrying mosquitoes in South Carolina made headlines earlier this month when it killed millions of honeybees, too. That’s the perpetual issue in pest control: How do you make it deadly enough to take out the bugs you want without harming the ones you… Read More

Members of Vanderbilt’s cochlear implant program at Deerfield Residence, the official residence in Dublin of U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Kevin O’Malley. An interdisciplinary team at Vanderbilt that developed an innovative method of programming cochlear implants to help people hear better recently presented at Deerfield Residence, the U.S. Read More

Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, a journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society, has named Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of Graduate Recruiting in Biomedical Engineering Craig Duvall to its third annual list of Young Innovators of Cellular… Read More

Updated Aug. 16, 2016 Eleven engineering students have been awarded graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Nine current Vanderbilt engineering students and two former undergraduate students are recipients of research funds. The Vanderbilt graduate students are Francis Afzal (Truman State University), electrical engineering; Sean Bedingfield (Utah… Read More

Andre Churchwell, M.D., has been named Chief Diversity Officer for VUMC. (photo by Joe Howell) Andre Churchwell, M.D., the Levi Watkins Jr. M.D. Chair, professor of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Radiological Sciences, and senior associate dean for Diversity Affairs, has been named to serve in… Read More

David Merryman is one of six engineering professors who earned R01 grants for their research. (Vanderbilt University) Five biomedical engineering professors and an electrical engineering and computer science professor are celebrating news about newly approved or resubmitted Research Project Grants (R01) from the Nationals Institutes of Health. Read More

Many STEM undergraduates want to pursue teaching. The Noyce Scholarship can help in a big way. Undergraduate students majoring in science, math or engineering subjects have the opportunity to make a difference in high-needs secondary schools while earning teaching licensure and a master’s degree from… Read More

Two engineering students have received scholarships to pursue humanitarian project during summer 2016. They are among 40 Vanderbilt students who received support from the university’s Nichols Humanitarian Fund. Human rights, public health, immigrant rights, early childhood education and environmental sustainability are among the issues 2016 Nichols… Read More

  From left, Hernan Gonzalez, Jon Heiselman and Patrick Anderson. Not pictured, Megan Poorman. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Engineering graduate students from across several disciplines will experience intensive training and mentoring with the potential to help them create devices, then get those out of the lab… Read More