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Former chair of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust and Vanderbilt Law School alumnus Mark F. Dalton, JD’75, has established a faculty director position to bolster innovative hands-on learning in aerospace design. The inaugural Mark Dalton Faculty Director of Experiential Learning in Aerospace Engineering is Amrutur “A.V.”… Read More

Nicole Moehring, a fifth-year graduate student in interdisciplinary materials science, has been selected for an extended residency to continue her doctoral research at the Savannah River National Laboratory. She is one of just 87 awardees selected by the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research program… Read More

Two multidisciplinary teams from a new joint initiative between Vanderbilt’s Department of Computer Science and Peabody College have advanced to the “discovery round” of the Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Devin Jean, a third-year CS Ph.D. student, presents his… Read More

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and professor of astronomy, computer science and management, and director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at the School of Engineering. Stassun and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cornelius Vanderbilt… Read More

Shihong Lin, civil and environmental associate professor, and two biomedical engineering doctoral students were honored recently at the inaugural Graduate School Honors Banquet. Vice Provost for Graduate Education André Christie-Mizell presented the Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award to Lin and a new award—Outstanding Doctoral Student Award—to Carlisle DeJulius. Deanna… Read More

The Vanderbilt Electrical and Computer Engineering Department celebrated its second annual ECE Day and recognized curriculum innovations, student achievements and opened with a poster session and luncheon. The event concluded with a keynote presentation by Jonathan Pellish, Microelectronics Manager, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, on “Nuclear Physics to CHIPS and… Read More

Derek Doss, a biomedical engineering MD-PhD student and Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering affiliate, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Derek Doss Doss works with his mentor Dario Englot, associate professor… Read More

  (Poster by Xu Liu) The Department of Computer Science will host a showcase of student artwork co-created with artificial intelligence on Tuesday, May 2, from 3 to 5 p.m. The event will be at the Sony Building, 1400 18th Ave. S., at the Computer Science space… Read More

With more than 40 engineering-specific funds and three School of Engineering alumni challenges, students, alumni, faculty, staff and parents have a multitude of ways to support the school during Giving Day 2023: Dare to Grow, a 24-hour event Thursday, April 27. The tradition of Giving Day is… Read More

The Vanderbilt biomedical engineering graduate program jumped to No. 14 in the U.S. News & World Report 2023-2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings, which were released today. The BME program, perennially in the top 20 U.S. graduate programs, this year reached its highest ranking in the five decades since the… Read More