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Jonathan Brunger, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society-Cellular Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award. CMBE is a special interest group of the BMES. The Rising Star Award recognizes a BMES-CMBE special interest group member who is at their early independent career stage and has… Read More

De-en Jiang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and of chemistry, is on this year’s list of scientists whose papers have been cited the most frequently by other researchers. De-en Jiang He is among 6,849 “highly cited researchers” around the world whose publications rank in the top 1% by… Read More

Jules White (Vanderbilt University) Jules White, a distinguished computer scientist and expert on large language models and prompt engineering, has been named senior advisor to Chancellor Daniel Diermeier for generative AI in education and enterprise solutions. White’s appointment, which became effective Nov. 1, will build on Vanderbilt’s growing reputation… Read More

Bridget Rogers, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been elected president of the American Vacuum Society (AVS). She will serve a three-year term as president-elect in 2024, president in 2025, and past president in 2026. Bridget Rogers “I am proud to have been an active AVS member… Read More

by Lucas Johnson In the fall of 2017, a pair of curious Vanderbilt students approached Steve Krahn, professor of the practice of nuclear environmental engineering and a former Department of Energy official, to discuss novel ways of using nuclear energy to power aerospace vehicles. Their hypothesis… Read More

Three passenger aircrafts in heavy traffic on the taxiway. Aircraft types on picture include Airbus A380 (middle). Two moving away, one approaching. Looks like the planes are deadlocked in a taxiway traffic jam. Getty Images by Brenda Ellis As the nation’s skies become more crowded with commercial air traffic and U.S. Read More

Abhishek Dubey, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, led a one-day symposium on Nov. 13 at Cornell Tech highlighting innovative research for sustainable cities. Read More

Vanderbilt mechanical engineering professors Deyu Li and Josh Caldwell are part of a team of researchers who have discovered a new heat dissipation channel using phonon polaritons that could have extensive implications for novel cooling technologies in devices like smart phones and other modern electronics. The research was… Read More

Several Vanderbilt faculty members are among an international roster of scholars presenting research at the Nature conference, “Bioengineering for Global Health,” at Vanderbilt University Nov. 13–15. Faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and editors from Nature Communications, Nature Biomedical Engineering and Nature Reviews Bioengineering led… Read More

https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-sub/wp-content/uploads/sites/282/2023/11/20233749/Dong-cilia-video.mp4 Vanderbilt scientists have created robotic cilia—similar to the vibrating hairlike structures responsible for moving viscous fluids in the lungs—that can clear mucus from airway stents used to treat conditions like lung cancer, cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Xiaoguang Dong The invention is the first… Read More