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Vanderbilt biomedical engineering undergraduates and engineering students from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala worked in teams to repair equipment at four hospitals in Guatemala over spring break. An anesthesia vaporizer that doesn’t deliver enough anesthesia; a rattling infant incubator with a tilted impeller; an infusion pump stuck in permanent “hold” mode;… Read More

Professor Peter Cummings (left) delivered the 2018 FOMMS Medal Lecture July 19 at the FOMMS conference in Wisconsin. With Cummings, from left, are J. Ila Siepmann, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota, FOMMS 2018 Conference chair; Claire Adijman, Imperial College, London, conference co-chair; and Jeff Errington, University of Buffalo,… Read More

Steve Turner (BA’69) shares the history of the MarketStreet Enterprises building, Nashville’s waterfront, major city projects, and development of The Gulch with iSeminar students. Steve Turner (BA‘69) was a student of cities long before Nashville became a hip place to visit as well as live. He and his wife Judy… Read More

Engineering graduate students who made presentations at SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 expected some performance jitters and anxiety about what their peers at this premier academic gathering thought of their work. What they may not have expected is the collegial give-and-take following their talks that sowed the seeds for new research… Read More

Every startup company begins with an idea, but as a group of aspiring entrepreneurs at Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering learned Feb. 26, it is the funding behind the idea that ultimately determines success. As part of the Spring 2018 Chambers Family Entrepreneurial… Read More

Sandra Rosenthal, the Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry and director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, has been named the winner of this year’s Charles H. Herty Medal by the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society. The award is given to recognize outstanding chemists… Read More

Berries really do pack extra punch – increasing the voltage of spinach-derived biohybrid solar cells developed by Vanderbilt researchers by up to a factor of 20. The interdisciplinary team discovered that combining a natural dye from blackberries with photosynthetic proteins extracted from spinach leaves creates a device that can produce… Read More

Deyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a distinction awarded to ASME members who have made significant engineering achievements. Deyu Li Li has made significant contributions in nanoscale energy transport as well as microfluidics and nanofluidics.  He is internationally… Read More

MIT Senseable City Lab Director Carlo Ratti to deliver Vanderbilt’s Hall Lecture Feb. 22 Carlo Ratti creates technological solutions that respond to citizens of cities. He makes cities senseable. Carlo Ratti “In the midst of rapid urbanization, the concept of smart cities — or senseable cities — as we prefer… Read More

Robert W. Pitz and Sankaran Mahadevan are members of the 2018 class of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics fellows. They join 20 other members from academia, industry and government honored by the AIAA. AIAA confers the distinction of Fellow in recognition of an individual’s notable and valuable contributions to… Read More