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  • Vanderbilt University

    NSF CAREER Award aids Landman’s big data brain modeling research

    Bennett Landman Vanderbilt University big data researcher Bennett Landman has won a $436K National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal to aid understanding of brain development. Landman, assistant professor of electrical engineering, computer science and biomedical engineering, plans to use new methods of computer analysis plus… Read More

    Feb. 2, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering school’s 2015 distinguished friends, alumni honorees announced

    Vanderbilt engineering alumni James H. Littlejohn and Mark L. Reuss will be inducted into the School of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni at a special event in April. Kenneth F. Galloway and James J. Truchard will inducted as inaugural members of the school’s newly-created Circle of Distinguished Friends. The Distinguished… Read More

    Feb. 2, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Former Ingram Barge CEO to lead Vanderbilt Center for Transportation Research

    Craig E. Philip, a nationally recognized leader in marine and intermodal transportation industries and former CEO of Ingram Barge Company, has been named director of the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation Research. He also is a research professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Read More

    Jan. 29, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Valdastri takes NSF CAREER Award for capsule robots with educational component

    Pietro Valdastri Vanderbilt University researcher Pietro Valdastri won a $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award with his proposal, not only to design and build capsule robots capable of finding internal disease, but also to make sure his discoveries are used in education at all levels. Valdastri, an… Read More

    Jan. 28, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Alum’s 3D printer with electronics capabilities grabs CES 2015’s attention

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. — There’s little sign that the Voxel8 team is just back from impressing visitors to this month’s Consumer Electronics Show — they’re working as intensely as ever in their tight, chaotic lab space in start-up community Greentown Labs. But talk to co-founder and software engineering lead… Read More

    Jan. 22, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Duvall to receive 2015 Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award for regenerative medicine research

    Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Craig L. Duvall has received a Society for Biomaterials 2015 Young Investigator Award for his achievements in the field of biomaterials research within 10 years of receiving his doctorate. The award will be presented at the Society’s 2015 annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C., April 15-18. Read More

    Jan. 22, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering, music theory professor explains how computers see music

    University of Rochester Professor Mark F. Bocko, right, talks with music tech entrepreneur Ryan Wrenn after today's presentation. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) The sound of Ray Charles crooning “You Don’t Know Me” has been raising goose bumps on the heartbroken for five decades. But what makes it bring… Read More

    Jan. 20, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineers lead 6 of 10 ‘cool inventions’ of 2014: CTTC

    A Vanderbilt engineering professor is a lead or co-inventor of six of the 10 “cool inventions” in 2014 highlighted by the university’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization in this video. The CTTC selected 10 from last year’s 200 inventions… Read More

    Jan. 16, 2015

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    Vanderbilt team builds miniature capsule robots, heads to NSF I-Corps

    Pietro Valdastri (John Russell/Vanderbilt University) Article courtesy of Vanderbilt CTTC Having spent the last decade researching and working on the development of medical capsule robots, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering’s Pietro Valdastri is no stranger to innovation, nor to the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps. The corps… Read More

    Jan. 12, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    LASIR is key part of new manufacturing hub announced by Obama

    Vanderbilt research will help shape the future of American manufacturing A cutting-edge Vanderbilt lab that studies how materials, structures and machines operate under real-world conditions will play a key part in the new multistate, $259 million Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) to be announced today by President Obama. Read More

    Jan. 9, 2015