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Awards and honors will be presented by Dean Philippe Fauchet to seniors at the School of Engineering’s annual Commencement Reception at the University Club May 7. Akash Umakantha, from West Chester, Ohio, is the recipient of the 2015 Founder’s Medal for the School of Engineering. He graduated with a bachelor… Read More

Dhiraj Prasai, a Vanderbilt Ph.D. candidate, stands by Swayambhunath Temple in Kathmandu in 2009, which was damaged in last week's earthquake. (Submitted photo) Dhiraj Prasai’s nonstop consumption of news about the Nepal earthquake started with a 2:30 a.m. Friday phone call that jolted him… Read More

  2012 graduates of the Fisk-Vanderbilt-Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program (Vanderbilt University) Increasing the number of minority students who earn a Ph.D. in science, technology, engineering and math is the aim of a new “bridge to doctorate” program being launched by a coalition of Tennessee universities and led by… Read More

  A crowd gathers in Featheringill Hall to see more than 60 engineering design projects created by teams of seniors who have devoted two semesters to solving design problems. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt)   News from Design Day:  More awards, more space for projects, a move to Vanderbilt’s Student Life… Read More

Christina Senia (ME'16) uses the Design Studio to work on her project for a mechatronics demonstration event. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) It’s the night before a mechatronics class demonstration day in April, and the Design Studio is even more packed than usual. There’s a constant whir from two… Read More

Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student is president A new campus organization devoted to increasing the number of Hispanic/Chicano and Native American undergraduate and graduate students who major in science and engineering has been chartered at Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University’s Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science… Read More

The Board of Trust has elected graduating senior Aditya V. Karhade as Vanderbilt’s first Young Alumni Leader. He will begin serving a three-year term on the Alumni Association Board July 1, 2015, and then join the Board of Trust July 1, 2018, for a two-year term. Aditya Karhade (Photo/Bosley Jarrett)… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering seniors Walton Seymour, left, and Alex Meyer today unveiled Bazaar, a sales app for university students, alumni and employees. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Just in time for college move-out season, two Vanderbilt University computer science seniors are introducing an app that should make selling all those… Read More

Members of the First Diagnostics team are, from left, Elizabeth Conrad, Michael Feldkamp, Ph.D., Hailey Verano, Samantha Sarett and, at far right, team leader Kelsey Beavers. Lawrence Marnett, Ph.D., and Md. Jashim Uddin, Ph.D., fifth and sixth from the right, developed the COX-2 inhibitor that could lead to a new… Read More

Kelsey Beavers Using the analogy of a nano-taxicab to describe her research on developing an improved drug delivery system, Kelsey Beavers won first place March 27 in a Three-Minute Thesis Competition for Vanderbilt graduate students, and she tied for the People’s Choice award, taking two of the three awards given… Read More