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    School of Engineering announces two faculty appointments, EECS chair

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of two new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff and the appointment of a chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Tyler Derr joins the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor and… Read More

    Aug. 25, 2020

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    Online convocation opens unusual academic year

    Dean Philippe Fauchet on Sunday told new first-year and transfer students that, as engineers, they are well-suited to handle the challenges and constraints of a college semester unfolding during a global pandemic. Dean Fauchet reviewed campus protocols during Sunday’s convocation webinar. Following the new rules—maintaining six feet of physical distance,… Read More

    Aug. 24, 2020

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    Engineers develop better graphene sieve that could advance clean water efforts

    Developing atomically thin graphene membranes used to separate salt from water is extraordinarily complex and the effort grows more crucial as population growth, industrialization and climate change strain freshwater resources. Vanderbilt engineers have designed a simple defect-sealing technique to correct variations in pore size in graphene membranes. Vanderbilt engineering researchers… Read More

    Aug. 14, 2020

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    Does named Fellow of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 

    Mark Does, professor of biomedical engineering has been selected as a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. His research program focuses on developing and applying MRI methods to quantitatively characterize various properties and/or compositions of tissue. It includes developing models of nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation and… Read More

    Aug. 11, 2020

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    Duvall named Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society

    Craig Duvall, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, has been elevated to the rank of Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Duvall and his research program focus on development of technologies for controlled drug release, tissue regeneration and therapeutics, and delivery of intracellular-acting biologic drugs such as siRNA and peptide therapeutics. Read More

    Aug. 10, 2020

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    BME Professor Audrey Bowden is faculty head of Zeppos College

    One of the special parts of student life at Vanderbilt is the university’s uniquely personal and collaborative residential college experience. Undergraduate houses and colleges are led by faculty who live with their families in community with students. Our faculty heads of house and their teams are excited… Read More

    Aug. 10, 2020

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    Alumni brothers take on cybersecurity’s moving target

    Brad and Tim Potteiger with Deanna Meador (left), associate director of the Wond’ry, at the Southeastern Entrepreneurship Conference in Chattanooga on March 1, 2020. Without warning, freezing-cold air blasts from the vents, the stereo screams heavy metal music at deafening decibels, your transmission dies and the doors won’t unlock. The… Read More

    Aug. 7, 2020

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    MoveVU travels on with $8.4M to help reduce traffic jams near campus, improve city air quality

    Campus Perimeter ‘Walk and Roll Loop’ (Mark Abkowitz/Vanderbilt University) Based on the success of the MoveVU sustainable transportation program, launched in 2018, Vanderbilt University has received an additional $8.4 million to scale up its activities. The additional money is being funded equally by the Tennessee Department of Transportation’s (TDOT)… Read More

    Aug. 5, 2020

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    Vanderbilt launches high-tech module in national partnership to meet critical engineering workforce needs

    Above, a recent Zoom session with of some of the 26 undergraduates from 12 universities and five Vanderbilt engineering faculty members who are participating in a virtual internship designed to expose undergraduates to specialized engineering fields—in this case, radiation effects on space electronics—typically gained at the graduate school level and… Read More

    Aug. 4, 2020

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    Streamlined diagnostic approach to COVID-19 can avoid potential testing logjam

    Following years of work developing diagnostics for infectious diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, chikungunya and zika, Nicholas Adams and Mindy Leelawong, both research assistant professors in the biomedical engineering laboratory headed by… Read More

    Jul. 30, 2020