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MarmotE team members (L-R) Peter Horvath, Peter Volgyesi, Sandor Szilvasi and Miklos Maroti. Vanderbilt team MarmotE cleared Phase 2 of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge held in December at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. With no real estate left to expand the… Read More

A session of a Coding Boot Camp offered by the Vanderbilt Data Sciences Institute. The following is an excerpt from a Jan. 23, 2019, article – Why Build a Boot Camp? –  in Campus Technology by Dian Schafhauser.  When Doug Schmidt persuaded his institution to sign on with… Read More

Ph.D. students (l-r) Will Barbour, Yue Hu, Yanbing Wang, Charles Doktycz and Derek Gloudemans with Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. in January 2019. Four of the students received 2018 Eisenhower Fellowships.   Four engineering Ph.D. students have received… Read More

Tikkun Olam Makers complete 14 design projects in 48 hours Linden strummed a guitar in the lobby of the Engineering and Science Building. The prototype of a custom guitar pick holder for his finger worked great. Zion whirled his wheelchair and kicked a round rugby ball to his TOM teammates… Read More

Racialized terms like “Asian fail” and “Black genius” are proving detrimental both physically and emotionally for students of color according to a new NSF report. (iStock) A new National Science Foundation-funded report published in AERA Open documents the negative effects labels and stereotypes are having on… Read More

New research builds on Nobel-winning immune checkpoint blockade work Immunotherapy’s promise in the fight against cancer drew international attention after two scientists won a Nobel Prize this year for unleashing the ability of the immune system to eliminate tumor cells. But their approach, which keeps cancer cells from shutting off… Read More

2018 finale of the Tikkun Olam Makers makeathon. Tikkun Olam Makers at Vanderbilt to host 48-hour makeathon starting today Teams of makers will race the clock this weekend to create innovative solutions to the problems facing those living with disabilities in Nashville and beyond. Beginning Friday, Jan. 18, at 5… Read More

The Engineering and Science Building has been awarded gold LEED status by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, status is the rating system used to rank buildings of all types as certified, silver, gold or platinum based on the building’s environmental and… Read More

Written by Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering Doug Fisher and Assistant Professor of English Haerin Shin Over the past decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has progressed in leaps and bounds, becoming a key fabric of our everyday lives and oft-mentioned in our popular discourse. Even… Read More

Audrey Copeland, PhD’07, has been named the next president and CEO of the National Asphalt Pavement Association. She will assume the new role at the NAPA 2019 annual meeting Jan. 20-23. NAPA is the only national trade association focused exclusively on the interests of asphalt pavement mix producers and paving… Read More