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The hundreds of students beckoning passers-by to listen to invention pitches Sunday didn’t look as tired as one might have predicted. After all, they’d survived 36 hours of the VandyHacks invention marathon, teaming up to produce new apps, devices and other tech in a weekend. They grabbed naps on the… Read More

Khloe Gordon (ChBE'17) and Christian Motyczka (CS'18) The Engineering Council is giving students from the School of Engineering and across campus a day of fun, uplifting and educational activities on Nov. 15. The council itself and six of the clubs within it are sponsoring events, all of… Read More

A highly recognized researcher and prolific writer dedicated to creating a better environment, Joan F. Brennecke will deliver the fall 2016 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture. Brennecke is the Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre… Read More

Sema Sevimli A postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering was recently awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant from the Susan G. Komen organization to develop new approaches to combat breast cancer recurrence Sema Sevimli, who earned her Ph.D. at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia,… Read More

  (Vanderbilt University)   Provost Susan R. Wente (Vanderbilt University) Three engineering faculty members join 15 faculty from colleges and schools named to the inaugural Vanderbilt University Research Council by Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente. The engineering faculty… Read More

An emeritus professor who early in his career was one of three faculty members to lay the foundation for the biomedical engineering department at Vanderbilt University died Nov. 3, 2016, in Nashville. L. Ensign Johnson L. Ensign Johnson, Jr., 85, was a professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering from… Read More

Thanks to the Cross-College Teaching Initiative that began this semester, Douglas C. Schmidt, professor of computer science and computer engineering, and Jules White, assistant professor of computer science, launched the University Course Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing. An integral part of Vanderbilt’s Academic… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s new cross-disciplinary innovation space, the Wond’ry, will host an open house as part of its grand opening celebration between 3 and 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Student ambassadors, Vanderbilt faculty and Wond’ry staff will lead tours of the new 13,000-square-foot space, located… Read More

by David Salisbury | Nov. 2, 2016, 9:00 AM | Want more research news? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter » SHARELINES Tweet// “MacGyver-ing” high-performance batteries out of scrap metal, laundry soap and a glass jar… Read More

A critical goal in modern surgery is to make procedures as safe and minimally invasive as possible, which often means using robotic tools. Vanderbilt University bioengineer Nabil Simaan says a negative side effect of doing surgery with tiny entry points into the body is that the surgeon… Read More