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Vijay Kumar and his students at the University of Pennsylvania build small, agile flying robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams that could be used for search and rescue in large-scale disasters. Penn Engineering Dean Kumar Kumar, recognized around the world for his groundbreaking work on… Read More

Two engineering professors have been selected to serve on a newly created university committee to promote diversity and inclusion at Vanderbilt. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced 15-person committee to work on issues of inclusion, diversity and community during his bi-annual address in August to the Faculty Assembly. It… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s newest chemical and biomolecular engineering assistant professor grew up fascinated with the human brain and decided early on he’d focus his research on that complex organ. But a surprise turn of events as an undergraduate led Ethan Lippmann into a particular avenue of brain research: using induced pluripotent… Read More

The School of Engineering will host a Dean’s Hour for all engineering students and families during Vanderbilt’s Family Weekend, Sept. 18-20. Philippe Fauchet This annual fall tradition invites families to Nashville for a weekend of catching up with their students, experiencing campus life, visiting with administrators and faculty, and learning… Read More

  (Vanderbilt University) VISE is keeping its acronym but changing its name. The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering will become the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering. The promotion from a three-year trial program to an established institute is the consequence of a Vanderbilt… Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Engineering landed in a five-way tie for No. 36 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs rankings, which were released Wednesday. The university overall earned its highest-ever spot — No. 15, tied with Cornell University and Washington University. The other schools of engineering… Read More

FEI Helios NanoLab G3 CX Dual Beam FIB/SEM (Submitted photo) A team of Vanderbilt researchers won a $928,786 National Science Foundation grant to purchase a piece of equipment that, for now, researchers must travel to Oak Ridge National Laboratories to use. It’s called an FEI Helios NanoLab… Read More

Mark Hatch says the Maker Movement is changing the world. He knows and he’ll tell you how. Mark Hatch Hatch is CEO and co-founder of TechShop, a fast-growing chain of co-working spaces where people come to build prototypes for the products they want to sell. What… Read More

John F. Mansfield, left, MSA President, congratulates Jake Benzing on his award. (Submitted photo) A Vanderbilt PhD student in interdisciplinary materials science took home a first-place poster award at August’s Microscopy & Microanalysis conference, held last month in Portland, Oregon. Jake Benzing, whose adviser is Associate Professor of… Read More

Austin Hardcastle's new malaria test, unveiled at the VUSE Summer Research Program poster event. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Austin Hardcastle stood pensively next to a giant poster explaining his research, the ultimate in “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” reports, holding the malaria test he designed. Soon, the… Read More