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Charleson Bell pitches Flash Crystal at Spark Nashville, held Thursday at Events on Third in downtown Nashville. Tech lovers crowded three stories of a downtown Nashville event space Thursday night, standing in hushed silence as two Vanderbilt engineers and eight other inventors argued in 90 seconds each… Read More

Doug Adams, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering’s Daniel F. Flowers Professor, was among the endowed chair recipients recognized at a reception hosted Wednesday by Provost Susan Wente and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Jeffrey Balser. Doug Adams Adams is director of the school’s new super-sized… Read More

A Vanderbilt School of Engineering faculty member has been honored by Office of Naval Research (ONR) as one of the top 24 young researchers in the United States in 2014 for his proposal to continue to develop dielectric-based optical metamaterials. Valentine Jason Valentine, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been… Read More

Three of 10 startups presenting at the Spark Nashville elevator pitch competition are creations of Vanderbilt University School of Engineering doctoral and post-doctoral students. PinPTR, developed by Will Hedgecock, is a GPS-based locator technology that’s cost-effective with unprecedented accuracy. FlashCrystal,… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of two new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff. They are Karl E. Zelik and Shihong Lin. Lin will join the faculty in January 2015. Zelik Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Karl Zelik focuses his research on biomechanics of locomotion. Read More

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Craig L. Duvall has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. Craig L. Duvall The five-year, $500,000 grant – Polythioketal Hydrogel For SiRNA-Enhanced Regenerative Cell Therapies – will allow Duvall to continue research on advanced drug delivery systems designed to enhance the… Read More

  Robots simulating radiation damage (left) and normal function (right). After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, investigators used robots to determine the extent of the damage and begin cleaning up. The question is how well robots can stand up… Read More

(iStock) Two researchers in Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering recently shared in a $300,000 award to fund their studies into how the brain works. Deyu Li Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Deyu Li and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Yaqiong Xu received the award, one… Read More

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected chair of the Gordon Research Conference in Lasers in Medicine and Biology. For more than 75 years, the Gordon Conferences have been recognized as some of the world’s premier scientific conferences, where leading investigators from around the… Read More

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools has joined with the Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies and Peabody College to create a platform to provide detailed, reliable and recurring information about the commitment of major employers to the public school system. This is the latest installment in a series that tells the story… Read More