Biomedical Engineering
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Sutherland Prize, Chancellor’s Research Award go to engineers
The Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research was presented to John Gore by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos during the Fall Faculty Assembly Sept. 22. John Gore Gore holds the Hertha Ramsey Cress Chair in Medicine and he is the director of the Vanderbilt… Read MoreAug. 22, 2013
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Eight engineering students receive NSF graduate fellowships
Eight current engineering graduate students have received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. They are Meghan Bowler, Erica Curtis, Melanie Gault, Samantha Saratt and Chelsea Stowell, biomedical engineering; Kirsten Heikkinen and Richard Hendrick, mechanical engineering; and Thushara Gunda, civil and environmental engineering. Two engineering undergraduate students who also… Read MoreAug. 21, 2013
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Guided by engineering faculty, high school students publish in research journal
By Elizabeth Johnston Engineering faculty mentored nine of 22 high school students who published articles in the recently released third volume of Young Scientist, a research journal for students who have participated in research labs at Vanderbilt. Turner-Yovanovitch Zoe Turner-Yovanovitch explored a new method and device for… Read MoreAug. 20, 2013
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Engineering faculty named to Vanderbilt’s strategic planning group
Two engineering professors have been named to an executive committee charged with developing a framework of ideas that will set the course for Vanderbilt’s future. Michael Goldfarb Michael Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Engineering in the Department of Biomedical… Read MoreJul. 17, 2013
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Engineering shares Vanderbilt space at Nashville Entrepreneur Center
Vanderbilt now has designated space at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s new downtown incubator at 41 Peabody Street in the city’s historic Rolling Mill Hill area. Dedicated Vanderbilt space at the EC. The VU@EC program was developed in conjunction with the School of Engineering and the Center for Technology Transfer &… Read MoreJul. 10, 2013
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BME-powered startup wins first place in Memphis tech event
BioNanovations, a startup company based on technology developed at Vanderbilt, claimed first place at the NewME Accelerator PopUp event held in Memphis June 28-30. Bell According to The Daily News in Memphis, the company was awarded prizes worth $45,000 and earned a seat in the 12-week NewME Accelerator program in… Read MoreJul. 9, 2013
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School announces new department chairs, associate deans, five faculty appointments
Adams The School of Engineering has announced the appointments of two department chairs, two associate deans, and five new faculty members. The appointments are effective July 1, 2013. Douglas Adams has been named Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Adams comes to Vanderbilt from… Read MoreJul. 1, 2013
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Professor helps validate maps of the brain’s resting state
Kick back and shut your eyes. Now stop thinking. You have just put your brain into what neuroscientists call its resting state. What the brain is doing when an individual is not focused on the outside world has become the focus of considerable research in recent years. One of the… Read MoreJun. 19, 2013
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Genetics may have played a role in student’s cancer research grant award
In July, Alex Walsh will step up to a podium in Saarbrucken, Germany and deliver a talk on optical metabolic imaging at an international workshop on Advanced Multiphoton and Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques. It’s her prize for winning this year’s JenLab Young Investigator Award – one of several… Read MoreJun. 14, 2013
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Alumnus to lead new venture creation at LaunchTN
Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN), a public-private partnership focused on supporting the development of high-growth businesses in Tennessee, has named Jim Stefansic as the organization’s new Commercialization Director. Stefansic Stefansic, who earned a master’s and a doctorate in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt, will be responsible for LaunchTN’s commercialization efforts and improving Tennessee’s… Read MoreJun. 3, 2013