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    Researchers’ breakthrough in thermal transport could enable novel cooling strategies

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering professors Deyu Li and Josh Caldwell are part of a team of researchers who have discovered a new heat dissipation channel using phonon polaritons that could have extensive implications for novel cooling technologies in devices like smart phones and other modern electronics. The research was… Read More

    Nov. 10, 2023

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    Vanderbilt researchers to present findings at Nature conference on Bioengineering for Global Health

    Several Vanderbilt faculty members are among an international roster of scholars presenting research at the Nature conference, “Bioengineering for Global Health,” at Vanderbilt University Nov. 13–15. Faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and editors from Nature Communications, Nature Biomedical Engineering and Nature Reviews Bioengineering led… Read More

    Nov. 9, 2023

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    Tiny hairlike robots could transform treatment options for chronic lung diseases

    https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-sub/wp-content/uploads/sites/282/2023/11/20233749/Dong-cilia-video.mp4 Vanderbilt scientists have created robotic cilia—similar to the vibrating hairlike structures responsible for moving viscous fluids in the lungs—that can clear mucus from airway stents used to treat conditions like lung cancer, cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Xiaoguang Dong The invention is the first… Read More

    Nov. 7, 2023

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    Interdisciplinary team develops open-access computer programming course for high school teachers

    A modular, open-access curriculum created at Vanderbilt that’s designed to expand the ability of high school teachers to use technology in learning offers an engaging introduction to advanced topics that are currently accessible only to computer science majors in college. Programming for a Networked World is a beginner-level MOOC… Read More

    Nov. 3, 2023

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    Vanderbilt engineering professor Joshua Caldwell elected Optica fellow

    Joshua Caldwell, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of Vanderbilt’s Interdisciplinary Materials Science (IMS) graduate program, has been elected to the 2024 Fellow Class of the Optica Society. Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America, is the preeminent professional society in the field of optics and photonics, with… Read More

    Nov. 2, 2023

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    Vanderbilt researchers receive 2023 Incyte Ingenuity Award

    Audrey Bowden A team of Vanderbilt researchers has been chosen to receive the 2023 Incyte Ingenuity Awards in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The award program aims to support the U.S. GVHD community by funding two innovative initiatives annually that address specific needs of people impacted by GVHD, including patients and their… Read More

    Nov. 1, 2023

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    VISE expands programming for summer research fellows

    This past summer, 13 Vanderbilt undergraduates were selected to work on projects focused on epilepsy, miniature soft climbing robots, stroke treatment, kidney disease research, cancer resection and surgical skill assessment as part of the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering’s Summer Fellows Program (VSF). Read More

    Nov. 1, 2023

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    André Churchwell receives Modern Healthcare’s Luminary Award for diversity leadership

    by Kathy Whitney André Churchwell, MD André Churchwell, MD, Levi Watkins Jr. MD Professor of Medicine and professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Radiologic Sciences, has been recognized as a diversity leader and a recipient of Modern Healthcare’s Luminary Award. “The Diversity Leaders Luminary Award was created to… Read More

    Oct. 31, 2023

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    Undergraduate minor in data science finds a home in the School of Engineering

    Beginning in fall 2024, the data science minor will become the 10th minor offered by the School of Engineering. The program, which launched in 2021, will move from the Office of the Provost to the school that is best aligned with its academic content. This gives students declaring the… Read More

    Oct. 30, 2023

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    Justus Ndukaife awarded distinguished Naval Research grant to advance thermal emission research

    Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has been awarded the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award for 2024 to continue his innovative research in thermal emission. Justus Ndukaife Ndukaife is one of 24 recipients from over 220 applicants who will share nearly $18 million… Read More

    Oct. 26, 2023