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Tennessee section of ASCE: Infrastructure GPA is a C Two Vanderbilt civil engineering professors helped grade Tennessee’s infrastructure, and the report card came home today. Professors Lori Troxel and Craig Philip and Vanderbilt engineering students were members of a team of professional engineers across Tennessee that assessed 10 categories of… Read More

David Kosson, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, has been appointed to a new working group charged with developing an international strategy to support and promote faculty research, scholarship and creative expression. The working group, created by Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente, comprises faculty from a… Read More

Vanderbilt University has opened a new cross-disciplinary creative space called the Wond’ry that is the centerpiece of the Innovation Pavilion announced last year as part of the continued implementation of the university’s Academic Strategic Plan. “Universities, at… Read More

  Engineering & IT Industry Career Day, Fall 2015. (Vanderbilt University) So many employers want to recruit Vanderbilt engineering majors, some are willing to pack into the Student Life Center’s hallways for the opportunity. The renamed Engineering and Technology Career Fair will feature 71 companies… Read More

Jacqueline Machesky represents just one of the nearly 9,000 students whose lives have been changed by the Opportunity Vanderbilt financial aid initiative. Oldest sister, Vanderbilt student, steel bridge builder. These are just a few of the hats that senior Jacqueline Machesky wears. During her time on campus, she’s been fascinated… Read More

An attempt to poison Zika-carrying mosquitoes in South Carolina made headlines earlier this month when it killed millions of honeybees, too. That’s the perpetual issue in pest control: How do you make it deadly enough to take out the bugs you want without harming the ones you… Read More

Visitor Terry Manning uses his smartphone to test text-based directions to find Vanderbilt University Hospital’s Courtyard Café while he waits for his girlfriend during her appointment. (photo by Anne Rayner) Getting to a patient’s room or finding the right clinic for an appointment can be stressful, but… Read More

Program’s initial awards total nearly $14 million The National Science Foundation has issued its first-ever awards for the NSF INCLUDES program, a comprehensive initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in science and engineering by broadening participation in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the… Read More

The Vanderbilt School of Engineering tied six other universities at No. 37 on the U.S. News and World Report’s list of the nation’s top undergraduate engineering programs at schools whose highest degree is a doctorate. The School of Engineering was ranked on the list of undergraduate engineering… Read More

An exciting maker-style immersion experience will be open to all Vanderbilt students in fall 2017 thanks to a successful proposal co-authored by mechanical engineering sophomore Will Berger. Lori Troxel, associate professor of the practice of civil and environmental engineering and the proposal team chair, has been named… Read More