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Artiphon, a Nashville music technology startup with its “everything instrument,” has tapped two engineering student teams to tackle engineering challenges as their senior design projects. Those teams join hundreds of Vanderbilt engineering seniors who have spent two semesters on projects. They all will demonstrate their readiness to tackle real-world engineering… Read More

  Jamie Cohen’s installation at Pancake Pantry (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) Engaging installations on display in Hillsboro Village businesses through April 15 have been created by a Vanderbilt University studio art class. The exhibition, “Look Both Ways,” was designed by eight students enrolled in a course taught by Mel… Read More

From left, Professor Douglas Schmidt, Jeffrey Selingo, Roberta R. Schmidt and retired Navy Capt. Raymond P. Schmidt. (Photo courtesy Douglas Schmidt) Blockbuster had Netflix. Borders had Amazon. Tower Records had iTunes. And so traditional higher education is going to face innovators that challenge it to adapt… Read More

  (iStock) Since 2007, California has had one of the most aggressive incentive programs in the country for putting solar-electric panels on the rooftops of homes and businesses. Its $2.2 billion California Solar Initiative (CSI) has provided a per-watt rebate for installing residential and commercial photovoltaic systems. Read More

Taylor Cannon and Eunice Jun have received honorable mentions in this year’s Goldwater Scholars competition. Cannon Cannon, from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, is a sophomore in the biomedical engineering program. Her research focus in biomedical optics is guided by her interest in developing optically based, low-cost diagnostic equipment to detect curable… Read More

Computer science graduate student Bo Li has been awarded a Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship. She is one of three recipients nationwide of the prestigious fellowship. The SRL Graduate Fellowship provides up to $20,000 that may be used to cover one year of a doctoral student’s tuition fees and to… Read More

From left, Robinson Littrell, Deloitte senior manager and Vanderbilt alumnus Andrew Derr, and Ricardo Herrera. (Tim Grubbs/Vanderbilt University) A mechanical engineering major and his teammate presented their solution for faster diagnosis of infectious disease and won first place in the inaugural Vanderbilt University Undergraduate Case Competition, sponsored by… Read More

Jack P. Williams (photo courtesy of ExxonMobil) Jack P. Williams (BE’86) launched his career as a drilling engineer for ExxonMobil in New Orleans and saw promotions that took him to Alaska and Malaysia before he settled into corporate headquarters in Texas. The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering… Read More

Vanderbilt University mechanical engineer Leon Bellan is working to create artificial human capillary blood vessels using cotton candy and gelatin. His goal is for researchers to use these man-made capillaries to help keep artificial organs and other tissues alive, which could dramatically impact the field of regenerative medicine. Vascular… Read More

Register for Introduction to Programming with MATLAB on Coursera. A new free massive open online course, or MOOC, is being offered by Vanderbilt University that will teach computer programming to those with little or no previous experience April 14 to June 15. While the course is an introductory college-level… Read More